Dawoud Bey (b. 1953), Clothes and Bag for Sale (from Harlem Redux), 2016
Archival pigment photograph
40 x 48” (101.6 x 121.9 cm)
Image © Dawoud Bey, Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery
The Cooper Gallery Permanent Collection
Archival pigment photograph
40 x 48” (101.6 x 121.9 cm)
Image © Dawoud Bey, Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery
The Cooper Gallery Permanent Collection
"Harlem Redux was my first work in which the human subject became less prominent, but the series’s increased focus on environment was a response to the disruptive changes taking place around those subjects. Gentrification and global capital are transforming the physical and social landscape of the largely black and brown community that has long resided in Harlem. It is now a community that has both subsidized Section 8 housing and ten-million-dollar condominium apartments—sometimes on the same block. I wanted to visualize that tension and transformation—to visualize the erasure of cultural and geographical memory—as it was taking place." - Dawoud Bey
