"I began photographing in the streets of Harlem in 1975. At first these visits were just weekly excursions. On those occasions much of what I did was not photographing, but spending time walking the streets, reacquainting myself with the neighborhood that I wanted to again become a part of..."⠀ ⠀ "A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th Street Movie Theater" is from Bey's series of photographs "Harlem, U.S.A.",1975–79, which takes viewers on a journey through the historic neighborhood of Harlem. View Bey's work—spanning these early photographs of Harlem to his most recent photographic series imagining an escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad—at the Whitney Museum through October 3 in "Dawoud Bey: An American Project."⠀ ⠀ — ⠀ Dawoud Bey (b. 1953), "A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th Street Movie Theater, 1976", from the "Harlem U.S.A." series, 1976. Silver print, 1/2 × 5 3/16 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist⠀ ⠀ #StudioMuseumCollection #DawoudBey #PermanentCollectio...