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…
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.”
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/12/npr-audio-roy-decarava.html 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.
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…
