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Roy DeCarava // Light Break

• Roy DeCarava • ISBN-13 978-1644230251

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Roy DeCarava // Light Break

• Roy DeCarava

ISBN-10: 1644230259 · ISBN-13: 978-1644230251

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Light Break presents the first survey since 1996 of photographer Roy DeCarava, an essential figure of American art and culture, whose “poetry of vision” re-forms urban life, labor, love, and jazz into the discovery of “an intimate, emotional arc of transformation.” Though DeCarava often refrained from public discussion of his work, this catalogue provides important background into determining factors of his aesthetic sensibility—his traditional training in painting and printmaking as well as his philosophical…

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Publisher: Roy DeCarava
1996
Pages: 228

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Contributor: a preface by Zoé WhitleyContributor: an American curator based in London

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Category: Art/ArtistsCategory: Coffee TableCategory: Monograph

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