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Roy DeCarava

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Self-portrait, Reflection, 1949 (DeCarava in the background with the camera below his bowtie)

Roy DeCarava (1919 – 2009) was an African American artist who received early critical acclaim for his photography, which initially focused on the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communities where he lived and worked. Over a career that spanned nearly six decades, DeCarava came to be regarded as a founder in the field of black and white fine art photography, advocating for an approach to the medium based on the core value of an individual, subjective creative sensibility as distinct from a "social documentary" style.

 

DeCarava encouraged other photographers and believed in the accessibility of the medium. From 1955 to 1957, at his own expense, he established and supported A Photographer's Gallery in his apartment at 48 West 85th Street, New York City, displaying the work of the great American photographers of the period. In 1963, he co-founded and became the first director of the Kamoinge Workshop, a Harlem-Based collective that supported the work of black photographers through exhibitions, public programs, group critiques and published portfolios.

 

In 2006, DeCarava received the National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States government.

 

Images by Roy DeCarava …

 

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Lingerie, 1950

 

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Couple Talking, Subway Platform, 1952

 

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Ellington Session Break, 1954

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