{"id":152122,"date":"2021-04-21T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=152122"},"modified":"2021-04-21T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:58:19","slug":"every-day-was-saturday-in-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/04\/21\/every-day-was-saturday-in-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Day Was Saturday in Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As a child, the Queens-born photographer Dawoud Bey marveled at the vibrancy of midcentury Harlem, where his parents had met and many of their friends and family members still lived. \u201cDriving through the crowded streets, I was amazed by what appeared to be the many people on vacation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiomuseum.org\/exhibition\/dawoud-beys-harlem-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he has written<\/a>. \u201cIt seemed to me that no matter what the day, everyday was Saturday in Harlem.\u201d In 1975, equipped with a camera, he began paying weekly visits to the neighborhood, walking the streets and capturing pictures. This approach\u2014on the ground, studied, empathetic\u2014led to his first series of photographs,<\/em> <em>\u201cHarlem, USA,\u201d and would inform his practice in the ensuing decades of his career; much of his work feels grounded in the unmediated intimacy of these early street portraits. Bey\u2019s Harlem photographs and a bounty of other pieces from his near half century at work are on display in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/exhibitions\/dawoud-bey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An American Project<\/a>\u201d (up at the Whitney Museum of American Art through October 3), his first retrospective in twenty-five years. A selection of images from the show appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152123\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_martina-and-rhonda-1993.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152123\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_martina-and-rhonda-1993.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_martina-and-rhonda-1993.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_martina-and-rhonda-1993-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_martina-and-rhonda-1993-768x686.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>Martina and Rhonda<\/em>, 1993, six dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid), overall: 48 \u00d7 60&#8243;. Whitney Museum of American Art, gift of Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152131\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_don-sledge-and-moses-austin_birmingham_al-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_don-sledge-and-moses-austin_birmingham_al-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_don-sledge-and-moses-austin_birmingham_al-2012.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_don-sledge-and-moses-austin_birmingham_al-2012-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_don-sledge-and-moses-austin_birmingham_al-2012-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>Don Sledge and Moses Austin<\/em>, from <em>The Birmingham Project<\/em>, 2012, pigmented inkjet prints, each: 40 x 32&#8243;; framed, each: 41 1\/8 x 33 1\/8 x 2&#8243;. Rennie Collection, Vancouver. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152133\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-a-woman-at-fulton-street-and-washington-avenue_brooklyn_ny-1988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-a-woman-at-fulton-street-and-washington-avenue_brooklyn_ny-1988.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-a-woman-at-fulton-street-and-washington-avenue_brooklyn_ny-1988.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-a-woman-at-fulton-street-and-washington-avenue_brooklyn_ny-1988-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-a-woman-at-fulton-street-and-washington-avenue_brooklyn_ny-1988-768x991.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3.-a-woman-at-fulton-street-and-washington-avenue_brooklyn_ny-1988-793x1024.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>A Woman at Fulton Street and Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY<\/em>, 1988, inkjet print, 40 x 30&#8243;. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey and courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and Rena Bransten Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152134\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_two-girls-from-a-march-band_harlem_ny-1990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_two-girls-from-a-march-band_harlem_ny-1990.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_two-girls-from-a-march-band_harlem_ny-1990.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_two-girls-from-a-march-band_harlem_ny-1990-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_two-girls-from-a-march-band_harlem_ny-1990-768x605.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>Two Girls from a Marching Band<\/em>, 1990, pigmented inkjet print (printed 2019), 30 x 40&#8243;; frame: 41 1\/8 x 50 1\/8 x 2 1\/8&#8243;. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152135\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-a-young-man-resting-on-an-exercise-bike_amityville_ny-1988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-a-young-man-resting-on-an-exercise-bike_amityville_ny-1988.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-a-young-man-resting-on-an-exercise-bike_amityville_ny-1988.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-a-young-man-resting-on-an-exercise-bike_amityville_ny-1988-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/4.-a-young-man-resting-on-an-exercise-bike_amityville_ny-1988-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY<\/em>, 1988, inkjet print, 30 x 40&#8243;. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey and courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and Rena Bransten Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152136\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_boy-in-front-of-the-loews-125th-street-movie-theatre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_boy-in-front-of-the-loews-125th-street-movie-theatre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_boy-in-front-of-the-loews-125th-street-movie-theatre.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_boy-in-front-of-the-loews-125th-street-movie-theatre-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_boy-in-front-of-the-loews-125th-street-movie-theatre-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_boy-in-front-of-the-loews-125th-street-movie-theatre-691x1024.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>A Boy in Front of the Loew\u2019s 125th Street Movie Theater<\/em>, 1976, gelatin silver print (printed 2019), 14 x 11&#8243;; frame: 20 5\/8 x 16 5\/8 x 1 1\/2&#8243;. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152137\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1.-three-women-at-a-parade_harlem-ny-1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152137\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1.-three-women-at-a-parade_harlem-ny-1978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1.-three-women-at-a-parade_harlem-ny-1978.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1.-three-women-at-a-parade_harlem-ny-1978-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1.-three-women-at-a-parade_harlem-ny-1978-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY<\/em>, 1978, gelatin silver print, 11 x 14&#8243;. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152139\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_hilary_taro-1992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_hilary_taro-1992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_hilary_taro-1992.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_hilary_taro-1992-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_hilary_taro-1992-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>Hilary and Taro<\/em>, 1992, two dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroids), overall: 30 1\/8 \u00d7 44&#8243;; frame: 33 3\/4 \u00d7 47 1\/2 \u00d7 1 3\/4&#8243;. Whitney Museum of American Art, Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152140\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_untitled-20-farmhouse-and-picket-fence-i.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_untitled-20-farmhouse-and-picket-fence-i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_untitled-20-farmhouse-and-picket-fence-i.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_untitled-20-farmhouse-and-picket-fence-i-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dawoud-bey_untitled-20-farmhouse-and-picket-fence-i-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>Untitled #20 (Farmhouse and Picket Fence I)<\/em>, 2017, gelatin silver print, 44 x 55&#8243;. Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Accessions Committee Fund purchase. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152141\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.-a-couple-in-prospect-park_brooklyn_ny-1990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.-a-couple-in-prospect-park_brooklyn_ny-1990.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.-a-couple-in-prospect-park_brooklyn_ny-1990.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.-a-couple-in-prospect-park_brooklyn_ny-1990-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.-a-couple-in-prospect-park_brooklyn_ny-1990-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5.-a-couple-in-prospect-park_brooklyn_ny-1990-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawoud Bey, <em>A Couple in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY<\/em>, 1990, inkjet print, 40 x 30&#8243;. \u00a9 Dawoud Bey and courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and Rena Bransten Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/exhibitions\/dawoud-bey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An American Project<\/a>\u201d will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through October 3.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawoud Bey\u2019s \u201cAn American Project,\u201d his first retrospective in 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