Dawoud Bey | Carrie Mae Weems : In Dialogue

Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in 1976 when they were both twenty-three, in a photography class Bey was teaching at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In the forty-five years following, the two artists have remained close and supportive friends who have consistently created visually resonant and thought-provoking works exploring themes of race, class, representation, and systems of power. Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue brings together 140 photographs and video works, writings by the artists, a historical timeline and two critical essays to illuminate their unique creative visions that have expanded the field of photography.

The design challenge here was to organize the material to celebrate the artists’ connections and complicities, while ensuring their individualism and differences remained clear. The curatored sections themes were organized in small groups by artist, and where they transitioned to the other’s works, that spread celebrated a visual conversation between the two of them. A graphic “clue” was often a solid black background on that spread. The text grid, a two-column format, emphasized the dialogue theme.

These rich photographic images were celebrated by the printer’s Trifolio"s expertise with tritone, in tandem with the artists’ guidance in tonality. Exhibition schedule: Grand Rapids Art Museum; Tampa Museum of Ar; Seattle Art Museum; Getty Center, LA. Distributed by Delmonico | DAP. 9.75 x 11 in (248 x 280 mm) 176 pages. Paper on board, Garda Matte 170 gsm, tritone and cmyk. ISBN: 978-1-63681-045-4

EILEEN BOXER DESIGN

EILEEN BOXER DESIGN