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Leading curators and critics—Sarah Lewis, Deborah Willis, David Travis, Hilton Als, Jacqueline Terrassa, Rebecca Walker, Maurice Berger, and Leigh Raiford—introduce each series of images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevealing Bey as the natural heir of such renowned photographers as Roy DeCarava, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edemonstrates how one man’s search for community can produce a stunning portrait of our common humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSource: \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/utpress.utexas.edu\/9781477317198\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eutpress.utexas.edu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":46676636303590,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/Bey_Seeing_Deeply.jpg?v=1758729846"},{"product_id":"bey-book-street-portraits","title":"Bey, Street Portraits","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities. 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Defying racial stereotypes, the resulting portraits reveal the Black subjects in all of their psychologically rich complexity, presenting themselves openly and intimately to the camera, the viewer, and the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSource: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mackbooks.us\/products\/street-portraits-br-dawoud-bey?srsltid=AfmBOor9oi6o6KoM1qjYGUsoDbSAWhp_3NK9frGuVYGIUGreL9F_HRm9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003emacbooks.us\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Signed by Dawoud Bey","offer_id":46676693582054,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signed by Dawoud Bey and Greg Tate","offer_id":48250405355750,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/bey_streetportraits.jpg?v=1760121462"},{"product_id":"book-this-was-the-photo-league","title":"(Photo League), This Was the Photo League","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe major work on an organization whose members were united in the belief in the transformative power of photography to effect social change during a tumultuous period of American history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Unsigned","offer_id":46677115830502,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Signatures","offer_id":46677115863270,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/This_Was_the_Photo_League.jpg?v=1758729705"},{"product_id":"witmer-book-front-street","title":"Witmer, Front Street Kotzebue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJust north of the Arctic Circle sits Kotzebue, a town of the Inupiat people that has endured for over a century. In this compelling visual essay, Dennis Witmer captures scenes on its Front Street, the main thoroughfare whose buildings have evolved from the sod huts of Native cultures to permanent wood and concrete edifices. From front yards with parked snow machines to townspeople peacefully strolling down sidewalks, the striking black-and-white images in Front Street, Kotzebue offer a thought-provoking view of life in the Arctic and people’s methods of coexisting with the brutality of nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee inside \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/denniswitmer.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/front-street-kotzebue-web.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ebook\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's description.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46681187352806,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/Witmer_FrontStreet_1.jpg?v=1758747208"},{"product_id":"taken-by-design","title":"(Institute of Design), Taken by Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in conjunction with the exhibition \"Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–1971,\" organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and presented at various venues, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtists include László Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, György Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. 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Bey’s vintage images are given new context in an essay by emerging African American writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, who undertook her own fascinating study of Harlem in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBey, who grew up in Queens with family roots in Harlem, has become one of the most widely acclaimed portraitists on the contemporary scene. 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Robert Adams described the work as \"believable because it includes evidence of man's darkness of spirit, memorable because of the intense fondness [Gossage] shows for the remains of the natural world.\" Aperture now reissues this exquisitely produced and highly collectible classic monograph. 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Essays by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English reflect on the importance of this body of work within the history of photography and the history of feminism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook comes signed or in a slipcase, signed with a print.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Daiter Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":48123421393126,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signed with Print","offer_id":48123523104998,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7647\/2806\/files\/Meiselas_CarnivalStrippers_5.jpg?v=1785955083"},{"product_id":"gossage-book-pomodori-a-grappolo","title":"Gossage, pomodori a grappolo","description":"\u003cp\u003epomodori a grappolo is a set of three interconnected books by photographer and bookmaker John Gossage. Each book gathers images made in Northern Italy and Sardinia between 2009 and 2011, and each includes a short text by Marlene Klein. The written pieces—two stories and one epilogue—have been created in response to Gossage’s pictures, and reflect the thirty years that Klein has spent living and working in Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unexpected approach runs through all the details of the books, from the way elements repeat—or don’t, to the choice of materials and color. Since these three books are each a different trim size but include photos that are reproduced at the exact same size, the collective project functions as a study of the way that ink on paper can inform perception. 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