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2. www.bbc.com › culture › articleRoy DeCarava’s stunning photos of jazz greats - BBC

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   Oct 24, 2019 · Portraits of jazz greats are here – Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, John Coltrane in full flow – but DeCarava captured his most poetic images far away from the ...

3. www.npr.org › 2009/10/30 › 114287231Remembering Roy DeCarava's 60 Years Of Photos : NPR

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   Oct 30, 2009 · The photographer, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his decades-long career to capturing images of African Americans. Roy DeCarava's subjects ranged from daily life in his hometown of...

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   Where can I find a photo of Roy DeCarava?

   • The Houston Museum of Fine Arts catalogue and The Friends of Photography book, Roy DeCarava’s Photographs, each include only a single image from the series. 44. For example see Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “Living with Contradictions-Critical Practices in the Age of Supply-Side Aesthetics,” Screen 28:3 (Summer 1987), and Craig Owens.

   Reading the Shadows: the Photography of Roy DeCarava

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   What is Roy DeCarava best known for?

   • His largest work is Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective, over 200 black and white photos spanning the late 1940s to the 1990s. Another work is The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Published in 1955, it is a pictorial narrative of family life in Harlem with photographs by DeCarava and text by Langston Hughes.

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   Why did Roy DeCarava refuse to contribute to a Harlem photo show?

   • Asked by white curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to contribute to a show of Harlem photographs in 1969, he pointedly refused, saying they had no understanding of the community. Estate of Roy DeCarava. Courtesy David Zwirner

   Roy DeCarava’s stunning photos of jazz greats - BBC

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   What does Roy DeCarava say about blackness?

   • The artist, Roy DeCarava, is saying that he is trying to depict the “concept of a world shaped by blackness.”¹ My gaze returns to the photograph: what a poor man, staring out at the riches of a world he cannot enter (Fig.1). Indeed, he looks as if he’s caged in, surrounded by the chain-link sides of the cart. But DeCarava’s words echo in my mind.

   Reading the Shadows: the Photography of Roy DeCarava

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Roy_DeCaravaRoy DeCarava - Wikipedia

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   Roy Rudolph DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009) was an American artist. DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his photography, initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communities where he lived and worked.

   • Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Arts
   • Known for: fine-art photography

   • Born: Roy Rudolph DeCarava, December 9, 1919, Harlem Hospital
   • Notable work: The Sound I Saw, The Sweet Flypaper of Life

6. www.britannica.com › biography › Roy-DeCaravaRoy DeCarava | Biography, Art, Photography, The Sweet ...

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   Roy DeCarava, American photographer whose images of African Americans chronicle subjects such as daily life in Harlem, the civil rights movement, and jazz musicians. Many of his photos were compiled in the book The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

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8. medium.com › exposure-magazine › reading-the-shadowsReading the Shadows: the Photography of Roy DeCarava

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   May 23, 2019 · Roy DeCarava’s images are compelling. From intimate portraits in dimly lit rooms, to streets busy at day and night, to sweating jazz musicians, they describe a rich, vital world. There are...

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9. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2022/02/14 › roy-decaravasRoy DeCarava’s sublime photographs of Harlem life go on show ...

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   Feb 14, 2022 · The art historian and widow of Roy DeCarava—who died in 2009, aged 89—refers to a meditative image, one of 66 currently on display at David Zwirner’s London gallery (until 19 February). It ...

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    Oct 30, 2009 · The photographer, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his decades-long career to capturing images of African Americans. Roy DeCarava's subjects ranged from daily life in his hometown of Harlem to the Civil Rights movement.