HARLEM, U.S.A (2012) portraits Gus Van Sant and many

Gus Van Sant and many more

and '80s with their soft colours and sultry joie de vivre

playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place

Publisher: Dirk Bikkembergs

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HARLEM, U.S.A (2012) portraits Gus Van Sant and manyDawoud Bey spent his childhood in Harlem and started photographing the streets of his childhood neighbourhood in 1975. Even though he was coming in from Queens, where he lived as an adult, a big part of his family was still in Harlem, so he'd go back weekly and walk around familiarising himself with the streets he knew as a kid. The pictures in this book recall entire lives and histories, people and communities and experiences from an area that is in