Roy DeCarava
Photographer, Visual Artist
1919 – 2009
Who was Roy DeCarava?
Roy DeCarava was an American artist. DeCarava produced five major books, including The Sound I Saw and The Sweet Flypaper of Life as well as landmark museum catalogs and retrospective surveys from the Friends of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The subject of at least 15 single artist exhibitions, DeCarava was the first African American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. Roy DeCarava died on October 27, 2009.
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- Born
- Dec 9, 1919
Harlem - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cooper Union
Art
(1938 - 1940) - Architecture
- Cooper Union
- Lived in
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
( - 2009/10/27)
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
- Died
- Oct 27, 2009
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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