Visually Speaking: Roy DeCarava, A Life in Art

Date and Time
April 21, 2015

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium
Event Details

Sherry Turner DeCarava, independent art historian and Executive Director of the DeCarava Archives, offers an in-depth portrait of the life and career of this influential artist and complex man. As part of the Schomburg’s Visually Speaking series, Turner DeCarava invokes her 40-year personal and professional partnership with DeCarava for a discussion of her husband’s artistic legacy, his continuing relevance and inspiration to the multiple currents of photography today. Photojournalist, Ozier Muhammad, will join Turner DeCarava in conversation after her lecture. 

 

Roy DeCarava (1919-2009) was one of the great pioneers of twentieth-century American Art. He has influenced generations of image-makers as he profoundly shaped our understanding of the people and places he photographed and expanded the esthetic possibilities of the silver gelatin medium he embraced. Over his six decade-long career, DeCarava created photographs that embody a rich, aesthetic world of sense and thought, extraordinary moments made visible in light and darkness.  Through his black and white hand-printed photographs he discovers a masterful evocation in infinite tonalities of grey.

 

 

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Roy DeCarava (American 1919 - 2009); Trumpet player, spotlight 1951 (c)Sherry Turner DeCarava; courtesy www.decarava.org; All rights reserved.
Roy DeCarava (American  1919 - 2009); Trumpet player, spotlight 1951 (c)Sherry Turner DeCarava; courtesy www.decarava.org; All rights reserved.

 

 

 

Visually Speaking is a conversation series curated by photographer Terrence Jennings highlighting the critical visual literacy of photographers whose images bear witness to a myriad of cultures, scenarios and narratives

 
Content of lecture is also not allowed to be captured by photography or audio-visual recording. For all media inquiries, please contact Adenike Olanrewaju at adenikeolanrewaju@nypl.org.

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