# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-decarava
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:40:06.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-decarava"
name: "Roy DeCarava"
slug: "roy-decarava"
description: "Roy Rudolph DeCarava was an American photographer. DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his fine-art photography, initially engaging and imaging 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 known 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, which was separate and distinct from the \"social documentary\" style of many predecessors."
tagline: "Harlem Renaissance artist, founder in the field of black and white fine art photography (1919-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy_DeCarava_PBS_publicity_1984_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1919-12-09"
deathDate: "2009-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.74
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.218324
  currentAttention:     10.4
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "روي ديكارافا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روى ديكارايڤا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava"
    title: "Roy DeCarava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava"
    title: "Roy DeCarava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava"
    title: "Roy DeCarava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "روی دی کاروا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava"
    title: "Roy DeCarava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava"
    title: "Roy DeCarava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava"
    title: "Roy DeCarava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bbcdd67a-ed34-454c-bc1f-792d9658d2db"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2475981"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump