Thursday, October 29, 2009
Art Roy DeCarava, Photographer of 50s and 60s Harlem, Is Dead
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:19 AM
His shots of streetscapes featured a less forceful focus and direction, instead offering a beautiful, contemplative scene of a community that felt organic and lived-in. He didn't direct our attention towards details so much as convey the mood and atmosphere of a place most of which most of the country only had a very distorted understanding. DeCarava's last major New York retrospective was at MoMA in 1996, though presumably his death will provide another opportunity to appreciate the work he created throughout a career that spanned some 70 years.
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