Bey, Dawoud, 1953- (Personal Name)

Dawoud Bey, c1995: CIP title page (Dawoud Bey) public information (b. in Queens in 1953)

New York times, July 29, 2012: page AR 19 (Dawoud Bey; photographer; b. David Smikle; attended high school in Queens and studied photography at the School of Visual Arts; changed name to Dawoud Bey by late 1970s; now lives in Chicago and teaches photography at Columbia College)

American National Biography, accessed December 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bey, Dawoud; David Edward Smikle; photographer, educator; born on 25 November 1953 in Jamaica, New York, United States; B.A. from Empire State College, State University of New York (1990); M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art (1993); documented a collective portrait known as Harlem USA (1975-1979); began teaching photography at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Jamaica Arts Center in Queens (1976); mounted his first exhibition at Benin Gallery in Harlem (1976); professor of photography at Columbia College in Chicago since 1998; honors include a New York State Council on the Arts residency fellowship (1984), a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1991); exhibitions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University among others)