Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective. Photographs by Roy DeCarava. Text by Peter Galassi. Essay by Sherry Turner DeCarava. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1996. 272 pp. Large quarto. SIGNED on title page by BOTH DeCarava and Sherry Turner DeCarava. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. 193 tritone and 30 duotone reproductions.
Laid in are the following pieces of ephemera: an invitation to the opening for Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; a printed program of that evening's festivities; a 10 pp. folded brochure from the show with a text by the show's curator Peter Galassi.
Catalogue to De Carava's major retrospective originating at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and traveling to nine additional venues. "Spans DeCarava's career, from his groundbreaking pictures of everyday life in Harlem, through the civil rights protests of the early 1960s, to more recent lyrical studies of nature. It includes a generous selection of DeCarava's remarkable jazz photographs--Billy Holiday, Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, and many others.
Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective surveys nearly half a century of DeCarava's work through some 200 black-and-white photographs made from the late 1940s through the mid-1990s. The exhibition explores continuities of style and theme by juxtaposing works that span decades."--Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Fine in Fine dust jacket. |
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