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Miguel
1999
Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953)
Photography
Miguel, 1999. Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953). 3 Polaroids; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carl and Joan Schneider 2018.310 In 1991 Bey attained access to Polaroid’s 20 x 24-inch view camera, a massive, complex, and highly specialized piece of equipment that produced monumental versions of the then-familiar, lushly colored instant pictures. He began experimenting with conveying several moments, and multiple aspects of a sitter’s experience, in a single work by combining individual exposures from the same sitting. The camera used to make this photograph weighed around 265 pounds and is 6 feet tall.
- Maker/Artist
- Bey, Dawoud
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- 3 Polaroids
- Medium
- polaroids
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2018.310
- Credit Line
- Gift of Carl and Joan Schneider
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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