biography of Roy DECARAVA (1919-2009)

Birth place: Harlem, NY

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Photographer, printmaker, painter

Studied: CUAsch; HArlem Art Center; George Washington Carver Art School, NYC, 1944-45

Exhibited: NY Serigraph Soc.(solo); Hotel Diplomat, 1948; MOMA, 1957; Studio Mus., Harlem, NY; NYC Pub. Lib.(solo); Atlanta Univ., 1944. Awards: f., Guggenheim, 1952

Member: NY Serigraph Soc.; American Soc. of Magazine Photographers

Work: MOMA; MMA; Center for Creative Photog., Tucson, AZ; AIC; Mus. of Fine Arts, Houston; priv. colls.

Comments: Collaborated with poet Langston Hughes on The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955). DeCarava began his photography career in 1946, and has often taken as his subject the streets of Harlem and New York. Position: photographer, Sports Illustrated, Look. Founder: Photographer's Gallery, NYC, 1955-57; Kamoinge Workshop, NY, 1970s. Teaching: Hunter College, NY, 1975-.

Sources: Witkin and London, 121-22; Roy DeCarava (Wash., DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1976); Alvia Ward Short, Roy DeCarava, Photographs (Houston: Mus. of Fine Arts, 1976); Cederholm, Afro-American Artists.