“These formal but casual street portraits became a space for the Black subjects to assert themselves and their presence in the world, with their gaze meeting the viewer’s on equal footing,” says Dawoud Bey about his work. Eager to go beyond the quick interactions of street photography, in 1988 Dawoud Bey began using a 4 x 5–inch camera that required a slower and more deliberate way of working. This offered the chance for more engagement with the people he encountered on the sidewalks of Brooklyn, Harlem, Rochester, and Washington, DC. He shot these portraits with Polaroid Type 55 positive/negative film, which instantaneously produced a photograph he could give to the subject, as well as a detailed negative from which additional prints could be made. . . . 🏷 #GettyMuseum #DawoudBey #BlackHistoryMonth #AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth #Analogue #Photography #Camera #Polaroid #AmericanLife Images: Untitled, 1990, Dawoud Bey. Getty Museum. © Dawoud Bey Sunshine Bracey and a Friend, 1990...