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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.
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.
Roy DeCarava (born December 9, 1919, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 27, 2009, New York City) was an American photographer whose images of African Americans chronicle subjects such as daily life in Harlem, the civil rights movement, and jazz musicians.
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Over the course of six decades, American artist Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) produced a singular collection of black-and-white photographs of modern life that combine formal acuity with an intimate and deeply human treatment of his subject matter.
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Mar 11, 2021 · Blackness is the ceaselessly miraculous demonstration that there is no black and white, just sun and shade. All throughout his long and glorious career, Roy DeCarava serialized this insight as an irreducible element of art consciousness’s remedial education, as he registered the condition that is without remedy.
Oct 10, 2019 · Roy DeCarava famously turned Harlem into his canvas, but there is much more to see — and feel — in his new retrospective.
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Oct 29, 2009 · Roy DeCarava, the child of a single mother in Harlem who turned that neighborhood into his canvas, becoming one of the most important photographers of his generation by chronicling the lives of...
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