Untitled #11 (Bent Branches)

Night Coming Tenderly, Black

Untitled #11 (Bent Branches)

2017

Dawoud Bey

(American, b. 1953)

America, 21st century

Gelatin silver print

Image: 121.9 x 149.9 cm (48 x 59 in.); Framed: 122.7 x 151.1 x 5.1 cm (48 5/16 x 59 1/2 x 2 in.)

Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2018.296

Edition: edition of 6 + 2 artist's proofs

Location

not on view

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This series was shot in Northeast Ohio at real sites used by the Underground Railroad and in landscapes typical of the region.

Description

Bey describes this series as “a visual reimagining of the movement of fugitive slaves through the Cleveland and Hudson, Ohio landscape as they approached Lake Erie and the final passage to freedom in Canada…These photographs seek to approximate the spatial and sensory experience of those moving furtively through the darkness, and the landscapes they encountered.”

See also
Collection: 
PH - American 1951-Present
Department: 
Photography
Type of artwork: 
Photograph
Medium: 
Gelatin silver print
Credit line: 
Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund

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