Dawoud Bey
Shalanta, Edgewater High School, Orlando, FL

Shalanta, Edgewater High School, Orlando, FL

© 2003 Dawoud Bey

Shalanta, Edgewater High School, Orlando, FL
Shalanta, Edgewater High School, Orlando, FL
ArtistAmerican, born 1953
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Shalanta, Edgewater High School, Orlando, FL
Date2003, printed 2022
MediumInkjet print
Dimensions50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Michael Zilkha in honor of Joan Morgenstern
Object number2022.814
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Dawoud Bey creates poignant meditations on race, visibility, and power, chronicling underrepresented and misunderstood communities. In Class Pictures, he turned his attention to teenagers, a population he felt was misjudged. He invited teens to write autobiographical statements and then made tender, collaborative portraits of them. Here, Bey captured Shalanta’s beaming smile that matched her sunny outlook.


ProvenanceThe artist; [Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.

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