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Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project

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The Birmingham Museum of Art introduces a new body of work by acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey that symbolically commemorates the four young girls killed int he Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing as well as two Birmingham boys who also lost their lives that day. over the past year, Bey photographed Birmingham boys and girls who are the same ages as those children were in 1963, as well as adults who are the ages they would be today. A second component of the project is 9.15.63, a single-channel video that symbolically traces each girl's path that day from their homes to the church, shown side-by-side with video that moves through four different spaces int he Birmingham community, empty and quiet as they would have been that Sunday morning.

Language: English

Pages: 63

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781934774113

Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project

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The Birmingham Museum of Art introduces a new body of work by acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey that symbolically commemorates the four young girls killed int he Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing as well as two Birmingham boys who also lost their lives that day. over the past year, Bey photographed Birmingham boys and girls who are the same ages as those children were in 1963, as well as adults who are the ages they would be today. A second component of the project is 9.15.63, a single-channel video that symbolically traces each girl's path that day from their homes to the church, shown side-by-side with video that moves through four different spaces int he Birmingham community, empty and quiet as they would have been that Sunday morning.

Language: English

Pages: 63

Format: Paperback

Release: September 01, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781934774113

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