- Sol and Carol LeWitt
Frame (outer) (each): 30 5/16 × 22 13/16 × 1 7/8 in. (77 × 57.9 × 4.7 cm)
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Known for his striking portraits of people taken on the street, Dawoud Bey turned to one of the Polaroid Corporation’s 20 x 24-inch cameras, a gargantuan and cumbersome version of the instant camera, to make studio portraits of a number of sitters, including friends and artists he admired. These studio sessions allowed Bey to orchestrate every condition of the image and to have a more contemplative, sustained engagement with each sitter. Inspired by Rembrandt and Caravaggio, Bey’s use of color and lighting reference Old Master paintings, and the two-panel format recalls Italian and Dutch paired wedding portraits.
Provenance[Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago]; purchased by John S. and Nancy Nolan Parsley, Houston; given to MFAH, 2022.
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