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Roy DeCarava

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Harlem Renaissance artist, founder in the field of black and white fine art photography (1919-2009)

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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.

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1952Guggenheim Fellowship
National Medal of Arts

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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.

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United States
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Artists
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Artist
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deceased
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Lived 1919 to 2009 · aged 89
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