“In times of great complexity and peril, artists are temperature-sensitive to the world around them. [DeCarava’s] work is testimony to his artistic vision and understanding of complex political, economic, and aesthetic realities.” — Sherry Turner DeCarava https://t.co/bFVGu1NZOC
“One of the best exhibitions of the season is devoted to the work of the great postwar photographer Roy DeCarava...organized on the centennial of the artist’s birth by his widow, Sherry Turner DeCarava, an art historian.”
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“It’s interesting to look at a moving image and think of a still image but there’s so much movement in Roy’s photography. You can see the movement even as the moment is caught in time.” — Vinson Cunningham
‘An astonishing document of American life’. @andrewdurb1n reviews two exhibitions by photographer Roy DeCarava at @davidzwirner, New York https://t.co/UBVtyrYaQf
There is no such thing as the marginal in Roy DeCarava’s photographs, Hilton Als writes. “Women, musicians, vegetation, Harlem: all of it is alive with the experience of being.” https://t.co/gt0n8Y17Iu
New York! Make sure you get to @brooklynmuseum to see #SoulofANation (and a nice selection of #RoyDeCarava photographs in person) before it closes on February 3. Next stop, Los Angeles.
A full house @revbooksnyc last night! Thanks to all who came out to hear the story of how #thesweetflypaperoflife came to be and to see the beautiful photographs of #roydecarava @… https://t.co/RByG160yu5
Repost from @cultureshockart: A postscript to my piece on Roy DeCarava for Hyperallergic. Part 2...
Shortly after Barry Jenkins won his Oscar for best picture for Moonlight, I ran into him… https://t.co/uUarc53nSJ
Join us @revbooksnyc for an in-depth discussion with art historian and publisher Sherry Turner DeCarava about #thesweetflypaperoflife the iconic photo book of life in #harlem by master… https://t.co/oAtoG7G5Nb