Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue documents the profound artistic and personal connection between two titans of American photography. Since meeting in the late 1970s at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Bey and Weems have navigated the complexities of race, class, and representation in the United States. This volume juxtaposes Bey’s sensitive, community-focused portraiture with Weems’s conceptual and performative investigations into power and domesticity. Through over 120 plates and essays by leading scholars like Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Deborah Willis, the book examines how both artists have spent their careers reclaiming the Black image from the margins of art history and placing it at the center of the American narrative.
