What is that aspect of yourself or practice that often gets overlooked?ĭawoud Bey (DB): As an artist who works primarily making photo-based work, I think historians and curators often forget that the work is not just about its content-the what-but also about the how, the making part, the how the photographic object comes into being, given the range of material and choices that can be made. Valerie Cassel Oliver (VCO): In categorizing artists and their practice, historians and curators often use shorthand, flattening an artist’s practice of sense of self. Read more about Bey's work and influence here. This interview with Dawoud Bey is the first in a series of conversations with important contemporary artists hosted by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Editor in Chief of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the VMFA. Public Art, Land Art, and Environmental Art Installation Art, Mixed-Media, and Assemblage Collecting, Patronage, and Display of Art
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