Street Portraits by Bey Dawoud Estera Knaap Matthias Groebel's activities in the

Matthias Groebel's activities in the late ’80s sound more like the plot of a cyberpunk novel than like a sober account of a serious artist’s professional practice: he spent those years rummaging around in electronic waste dumps in Münster

in a variety of shades and finishes

inspired by a childhood gift of The Mutiny on The Bounty and a desire to capture the island’s fragility on expiring analogue film

Using the old printing technique of ‘orotone’ and working with small sizes

and becoming a photographer transformed him into someone who works methodically when creating his artworks

Street Portraits by Bey Dawoud Estera Knaap Matthias Groebel's activities in theSigned copies From 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities. Using a large format tripod mounted camera and a unique positive negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative, he asked a cross section of the populations of these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self presentation and performance in the streets of the urban