Roy DeCarava

Roy DeCarava Quotes from 1996 Charlie Rose Interview

Dodge & Burn Photography Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

As readers of this blog you already know I love photographer interviews. When I interview a photographer, I'm not just interested in their technique and equipment. I'm more interested in their artistic tendencies - the questions, theories and truths that drive them to make pictures as a means of expression. Towards the middle of this interview, Charlie Rose asks, "What haven't you been able to...

Roy DeCarava, Famous Photographer Who Recorded Harlem, Dies at 89

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

NEW YORK, NY (AP)- Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89. DeCarava died in Manhattan of natural causes on Tuesday, said his daughter, Susan DeCarava. He had been teaching an advance photography course at Hunter College, where he joined the faculty in 1975. Born in Harlem, DeCarava was considered...

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Roy DeCarava, Harlem Insider Who Photographed Ordinary Life, Dies at 89

A Glimpse of the World (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

Copyright The New York Times Click to see images 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 its ordinary people and its jazz giants, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 89 and lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. His death was announced...

Roy de Carava 1919-2009

Noctuary: a record of what passes in the night (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

“It doesn’t have to be pretty to be true. 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.” Ketchup Bottles, Table and Coat (After a photograph by Roy DeCarava ) Just a moment after: The darkness has one story left to tell -- of what is left behind the genesis of night and all its grandeur:...

Photographer Roy DeCarava, Who Chronicled Harlem, Dead At 89

ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

"[He] photographed Harlem during the 1940s, '50s and '60s with an insider's view of the subway stations, restaurants, apartments and especially the people who lived in the predominantly African American neighborhood. He also was well known for his candid shots of jazz musicians - many of them taken in smoky clubs using only available light."...