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According to his rather belated New York Times obit, photographer Robert Cameron died almost two weeks ago at the age of 98. He continued working up until the very end: “Three months after he last rode shotgun in a helicopter, pointing his Pentax camera (mounted on a gyroscope to offset the vibrations), Mr. Cameron, the [...] Related posts: RIP: Photographer Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009 RIP: Photographer...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Artist Jeanne-Claude (née Denat de Guillebo) died in New York Wednesday evening of complications from a brain aneurysm. Along with her husband and artistic partner Christo, whom she met in 1958, she undertook an international series of large-scale outdoor installations, modifying landscapes with industrial strength cloth ballooned, wrapped, and tied. In a tale that legends are made of, the pair...
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Eye Level (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Roy DeCarava's Lingerie, New York Roy DeCarava, an American master, died October 27, 2009, a few weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday. Born in Harlem in 1919, and coming to adulthood during the Harlem Renaissance, DeCarava became a photographer of...
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Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Hunter College professor and noted photographer Roy DeCarava has died. The groundbreaking artist was known for his portraits of African-Americans, celebrated and unknown. Read more here in an article by Peter Monaghan. See some of Professor DeCarava's work here.
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Dodge & Burn Photography Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
As readers of this blog you already know I love photographer interviews. When I interview a photographer, I'm not just interested in their technique and equipment. I'm more interested in their artistic tendencies - the questions, theories and truths that drive them to make pictures as a means of expression. Towards the middle of this interview, Charlie Rose asks, "What haven't you been able to...
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Smart People I Know (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Though both Letter to Jane and Time’s Looking Around, I’ve learned that a great American photographer died this week: Roy DeCarava. These three sites can give you a better appreciation of why he is a great photographer. Looking at his work, I love his mastery of shadow as in this photo: Indeed, a lack of light [...]
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The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Photographer Roy DeCarava. Photo by triggahappy76 / Flickr.Roy DeCarava : 1919-2009Photographer Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his 60-year career to capturing images of African Americans. His subjects ranged from daily life in his hometown of Harlem to the Civil Rights movement, but his most noted work featured photographs of jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk,
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UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Photographer acclaimed for haunting Harlem images Roy DeCarava, 89, whose intimate, often melancholy black-and-white images of Harlem life made him one of the most respected photographers of his century, died Oct. 27 in New York. His family declined to provide the cause of death. Mr. DeCarava spent most of his career working near his birthplace in Harlem [...]
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
NEW YORK, NY (AP)- Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89. DeCarava died in Manhattan of natural causes on Tuesday, said his daughter, Susan DeCarava. He had been teaching an advance photography course at Hunter College, where he joined the faculty in 1975. Born in Harlem, DeCarava was considered...
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Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
hat tip-morphus OBITUARY Roy DeCarava dies at 89; art photographer depicted the African American experience He was known for his pictures of everyday life in Harlem and for his candid shots of jazz musicians. Shadow and darkness are hallmarks of his style. By Mary Rourke October 29, 2009 Roy DeCarava, an art photographer whose pictures of everyday life in Harlem helped clarify the African American...
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A Glimpse of the World (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Copyright The New York Times Click to see images Roy DeCarava, the child of a single mother in Harlem who turned that neighborhood into his canvas, becoming one of the most important photographers of his generation by chronicling the lives of its ordinary people and its jazz giants, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 89 and lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. His death was announced...
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Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Valerie Hegarty 's Rothko Sunset (Thanks, Kristina ) • Fascinating: "Occult Symbolism in Corporate Logos," Part 1 & Part 2 . Via Agenda Inc. • Rest in peace, Roy DeCarava , a photographer whose images of the African American community sought to capture "not the famous and the well known, but the unknown and the unnamed, thus revealing the roots from which spring the greatness...
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Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The death of photographer Roy DeCarava was announced Wednesday, October 28. He is remembered fondly as a pioneer of black and white photography, as a husband, and as a father. DeCarava discovered photography first as a tool to document his...
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Noctuary: a record of what passes in the night (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
“It doesn’t have to be pretty to be true. But if it’s true it’s beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.” Ketchup Bottles, Table and Coat (After a photograph by Roy DeCarava ) Just a moment after: The darkness has one story left to tell -- of what is left behind the genesis of night and all its grandeur:...
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clusterflock (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Roy DeCarava, one of photography’s greats, died Tuesday night, October 27, 2009. “It doesn’t have to be pretty to be true,” Mr. DeCarava said in a 2001 interview with the contemporary artist Dread Scott. “But if it’s true it’s beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence [...]
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