Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009 – Lens Blog

Smooth, silky, smoky and gentle; as formal as you might expect from the painter he once wanted to be, Roy DeCarava’s photographs speak in a language far softer than we’re accustomed to now. They are no less powerful for their subtlety. They are meant to repay close study and they do.

Link: Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009 – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com