/PHOTOGRAPHERS/PHER ROY DECARAVA
Roy DeCarava
Plates contributed
The 1 plate attributed to Roy DeCarava in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0141 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Plate #18 (Lovers, USA). Checklist prints ‘Roy De Carava’ (two words); canonical form is ‘DeCarava’ (one word) per the photographer’s own estate and his 1996 MoMA retrospective catalog. We use ‘Roy DeCarava’. First African-American photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship (1952); 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life with Langston Hughes. Checklist nationality: American.
Sources
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src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist -
src-nyt-2009-decarava-obit