Decarava
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Conceived, designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer roy decarava (bdecarava is a life-long new yorker who from his immediate world creates images that transcend the specific to depict universal themes of joy, anticipation, pain and survivalpresented as a stream of 196 soulful images interspersed with decarava's own evocative poetry, the book is, in its form and effect, the printed equivalent of jazzlargely unpublished, he was first recognized for his images of daily life in harlem (the subject of the sweet flypaper of life, his collaboration with harlem renaissance poet langston hughes) and portraits of musicians like duke ellington and billie holiday) in the early s, yet unpublished for nearly half a century, the sound i saw has largely existed as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography worldit is these two themes, harlem and jazz, interwoven and inseparable, that are the ostensible subject of the bookhowever, the seemingly casual yet deeply felt compositions and the deep, rich tones of decarava's photographs stir emotions that resonate far beyond one neighbourhood and one era"this is a book about people, about jazz, and about thingssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreslightly bumped dust jacket with slight grubby marks on back end papersoxfam shop gosforth this is the long-awaited publication of a moving masterwork by one of the greatest photographers of our timethe work between its covers tries to present images for the head and for the heart and, like its subject matter, is particular, subjective, and individual," writes the author
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