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Dawoud Bey & William H. Johnson
Since 1975, photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture. For Night Coming Tenderly, Black, Bey turned to the vast historical subject of the Underground Railroad. The title refers to Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes's Dream Variations, whose final refrain is "Night coming tenderly/Black like me." The photographs were made around Cleveland and Hudson, Ohio, and show homes and patches of land rumored to have been final way stations of the network of routes and safe houses that aided enslaved African Americans on their path to freedom. ... |