Celebrating “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” in Roy DeCarava’s Centennial Year – Feature Shoot

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Celebrating “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” in Roy DeCarava’s Centennial Year – Feature Shoot

Roy DeCarava, Boy in park, reading, 1950 Roy DeCarava, Swimmers, 1950 “We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good…

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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is,” Langston Hughes said of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his landmark art book collaboration with Roy DeCarava recently republished by David Zwirner Books.