Featuring 200 superb plates spanning half a century, this book is the first retrospective of the work of Roy DeCarava, a great American photographer known for his brilliant photographs of Harlem and of jazz musicians such as Billie Holliday and John Coltrane. Published to accompany a major exhibition that opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in early 1996.
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Featuring 200 superb plates spanning half a century, this book is the first retrospective of the work of Roy DeCarava, a great American photographer known for his brilliant photographs of Harlem and of jazz musicians such as Billie Holliday and John Coltrane. Published to accompany a major exhibition that opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in early 1996.
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Fine. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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Good++, No Dust Jacket. 4TO, B/W Illus, Paperback. Softcover. White photo illustrated paper covers show edge wear and light soil. Corner lightly creased. Light fore edge soil. Photo pages are clean, a few bent corners. Lightly tanned at margin edges. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
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DECARAVA, Roy. Near fine. With an essay by Sherry Turner DeCarava. Black & white photographic illustrations. 280 pages. Large 4to, matte pictorial wrappers (spine evenly toned). New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1996). A near fine copy.
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Very Good. Black boards, white illustrated dj. 280 pp., Illustrations. Book includes an introduction by Peter Galassi, a foreword by Glenn D. Lowry, the Director of The Museum of Modern Art at the time this book was published and an essay by Sherry Turner DeCarava the wife of Roy DeCarava. A striking presentation of this photographers work.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Quarto. 280 pp. previous owner inscription front free endpaper. toning to the extremities. Granite gray cloth boards in excellent condition. Vivid red lettering to the spine. Clean and bright pages are unmarked. Unclipped pictorial has toning to the panels, otherwise like new. in mylar sleeve. Perhaps best known for his portraits of jazz musicians, DeCarava in 1952 was the first African American photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.