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Roy DeCarava. Self-Portrait. 1956

Roy DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009) was born in Harlem, the son of a single Jamaican mother. He went to art school, studying painting, but gravitated toward photography. His focus was upon chronicling the lives of ordinary people, revealing their beauty and humanity. He also had a great passion for jazz and spent many years photographing musicians such as Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Count Basie.

DeCarava enjoyed a long, productive career. He also taught and influenced many young photographers.

“It doesn’t have to be pretty to be true,” DeCarava said in a 2001 interview with the contemporary artist Dread Scott. “But if it’s true it’s beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.”

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Summary: In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves. Cover design by Sara Eisenman. Cover photograph by Roy DeCarava © Sherry Turner DeCarava.

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“Light Break” and “The Sound I Saw” capture the full scope of the 20th-Century Harlem photographer’s career.

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On Roy DeCarava’s Centennial, Two Photo Books Document His Legacy

“Light Break” and “The Sound I Saw” capture the full scope of the 20th-Century Harlem photographer’s career. from Latest Information https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/books/review/roy-de-carava-light-break-the-sound-i-saw-sherry-turner-decarava.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

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“Light Break” and “The Sound I Saw” capture the full scope of the 20th-Century Harlem photographer’s career.

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NEW edition: “Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes: The Sweet Flypaper of Life” ( hardcover & paperback editions)! In her Afterword, Sherry Turner DeCarava writes, "While carrying the burdens of history, robust and yet finely-attuned personalities rise in these pages; Hughes was able to imbue each imagined individual with a vivid agency. The persistence and dedication of DeCarava and Hughes, the cadence of their improvisations in image and word bring an entire audience of people—readers, subjects and the artists themselves—into an intimate, emotional arc of transformation. You hold in your hands not only the living testimony of a community, but the moment of insight for Langston Hughes when he realized what he held in his hands in that Harlem corner." Published by @firstprintpressed @davidzwirnerbooks @decarava #roydecarava #langstonhughes #sweetflypaperoflife https://www.instagram.com/p/Boer28FHi36/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b548fqfcc4xv

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"There was this big hole. There were no black images of dignity, of beautiful black people. So, I tried to fill it. But that's not what I wanted to do. What I wanted to do was to find within the black community, itself -- I was looking for humanity. I was looking for people-- these are people. Before they're black, they're people."

Be sure to join us at Visually Speaking: Roy DeCarava with Sherry Turner DeCarava and photojournalist Ozier Muhammad as they discuss the life and work of the influential artist, Roy DeCarava on April 21st.

For more information and to register, visit: http://bit.ly/1CThY74