DAWOUD BEY: IN THIS HERE PLACE

Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2022. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2022. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 35 pages. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. None of the copies was sold commercially. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Stephen Daiter Gallery: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. Photographs and text by Dawoud Bey. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at EXPO Chicago from April 7 through 10, 2022. Presents Dawoud Bey's "In This Here Place". The "daylight" sequel-sequence to his ground-breaking "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" Series (on the Underground Railroad) : Photographs of what remains today of the slave plantations in Louisiana, shot on bright, sunny days. Exquisitely produced, brightly-lit, and powerful landscape photographs. The title comes from Toni Morrison's "Beloved". In a feat of artistic poise, the seemingly sunny photographs belie their somber subject - without overstating the latter, as is often the case when it comes to American slavery. It is the brilliant continuation of Dawoud Bey's career retrospective, "Seeing Deeply", released in September 2018. Taken together, "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" and "In This Here Now" constitute a major American photographic achievement of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Dawoud Bey collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This is neither a full-fledged book nor a monograph. But it is an indispensable sequence in Bey's oeuvre, presented in its 24-plate entirety, beautifully produced. A rare copy thus. 24 plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAWOUD BEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).