Dawoud Bey, Carrie I, 1997
Images of Dawoud Bey, Carrie I

- Short Six photographs are arranged in a rectangle. Together, they show a young woman sitting in a wooden chair, her knees to her chest, and her hands clasped at her ankles.
Carrie I, 1997
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Si× parts, each: 30 ¾ × 23 3/8 in. (78.1 × 59.4 cm); installed: 61 ½ × 70 1/8 in. (156.2 × 178.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Jane and Gary Wilner, Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt, Lynn and Allen Turner, James Reynolds, Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, and members of the New Group, 2002.80.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Carrie I, 1997
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Si× parts, each: 30 ¾ × 23 3/8 in. (78.1 × 59.4 cm); installed: 61 ½ × 70 1/8 in. (156.2 × 178.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Jane and Gary Wilner, Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt, Lynn and Allen Turner, James Reynolds, Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, and members of the New Group, 2002.80.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Carrie I, 1997
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Si× parts, each: 30 ¾ × 23 3/8 in. (78.1 × 59.4 cm); installed: 61 ½ × 70 1/8 in. (156.2 × 178.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Jane and Gary Wilner, Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt, Lynn and Allen Turner, James Reynolds, Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, and members of the New Group, 2002.80.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Carrie I, 1997
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Si× parts, each: 30 ¾ × 23 3/8 in. (78.1 × 59.4 cm); installed: 61 ½ × 70 1/8 in. (156.2 × 178.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Jane and Gary Wilner, Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt, Lynn and Allen Turner, James Reynolds, Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, and members of the New Group, 2002.80.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Carrie I, 1997
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Si× parts, each: 30 ¾ × 23 3/8 in. (78.1 × 59.4 cm); installed: 61 ½ × 70 1/8 in. (156.2 × 178.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Jane and Gary Wilner, Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt, Lynn and Allen Turner, James Reynolds, Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, and members of the New Group, 2002.80.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Carrie I, 1997
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Si× parts, each: 30 ¾ × 23 3/8 in. (78.1 × 59.4 cm); installed: 61 ½ × 70 1/8 in. (156.2 × 178.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Jane and Gary Wilner, Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt, Lynn and Allen Turner, James Reynolds, Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, and members of the New Group, 2002.80.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

- Short In this photograph, a cropped view of orange-and-white sneakers, denim pants, and tan-skinned hands suggests that someone just out of view is hugging their legs while sitting.
Carrie I, 1997
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Si× parts, each: 30 ¾ × 23 3/8 in. (78.1 × 59.4 cm); installed: 61 ½ × 70 1/8 in. (156.2 × 178.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Jane and Gary Wilner, Anita Blanchard and Martin Nesbitt, Lynn and Allen Turner, James Reynolds, Sandra P. and Jack Guthman, and members of the New Group, 2002.80.a-f. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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Exhibitions
- Eternal Youth–
- Short A shadowed figure leans over a partially nude youth, who is smiling with his eyes closed. They are both in a bed with gray sheets.
Collection
Dawoud Bey, The Birmingham Project: Mathes Manafee and Cassandra Griffin, 2012 - Short Two framed black-and-white portraits are placed side by side. The left photograph captures a young woman with short, curly black hair sitting in a church pew. The other photograph shows an older woman with graying dreadlocks sitting in a near identical pew.