Tag: Roy DeCarava

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

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…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/06/celebrating-the-sweet-flypaper-of-life-in-roy-decaravas-centennial-year/

“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.

June 18, 2019
Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance in Harlem – The New York Times

Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance in Harlem

Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes celebrated the art of living through difficult times in “The Sweet Flypaper of Life.”

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/lens/illuminating-black-joy-black-love-and-resistance-in-harlem.html

Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes celebrated the art of living through difficult times in “The Sweet Flypaper of Life.”

November 24, 2018
NPR audio: Remembering Roy DeCarava's 60 Years Of Photos – lens culture

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Listen to this really wonderful 18 minute interview with photographer Roy DeCarava on Fresh Air from 1996. DeCarava died October 27 at age 89. What a soulful, sweet, articulate man.

December 18, 2009
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

October 28, 2009