Book Review: Dawoud Bey's Class Pictures in DEMO
Class Pictures
By Dawoud Bey
[Aperture, 2007. 164 pages. $45.00, hardcover]
“For all this rhetoric about ‘leave no child behind,’ I don’t think this society, quite frankly, gives a shit about young people other than as a kind of periodic political football,” says photographer Dawoud Bey in an interview with his former student Carrie Mae Weems in Class Pictures. “I’m trying to construct a kind of representation of the teenage subject that functions in opposition to those representations of teenagers as socially problematic or as engines for a certain consumerism.” Read on...
