Miguel

1999

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.