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The Sweet Flypaper Of Life

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Author : Roy DeCarava
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

The Sweet Flypaper Of Life written by Roy DeCarava and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.

Told through the eyes of the grandmotherly Sister Mary Bradley, this is a heartwarming description of life in Harlem.

The Sweet Flypaper Of Life Hardcover

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Author : Roy DeCarava
language : en
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Release Date : 2018-09-04

The Sweet Flypaper Of Life Hardcover written by Roy DeCarava and has been published by David Zwirner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-04 with Art categories.

“The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness.” —Roy DeCarava. The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a “poem” about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew, and felt deeply about life in their city. Hughes’s heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. As she guides the reader through the lives of those around her, we imagine the babies born, families in struggle, children yet flourishing. We experience the sights and sounds of Harlem as seen through her learned and worldly eyes, expressed here through Hughes’s poetic prose. As she states, “I done got my feet caught in the sweet flypaper of life and I’ll be dogged if I want to get loose.” DeCarava’s photographs lay open a world of sense and feeling that begins with his perception and vision. The ruminations go beyond the limit of simple observation and contend with deeper meanings to reveal these individuals as subjects worthy of art. While Hughes states “We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is,” the photographs bring us back to this lively dialogue and a complex reality, to a resolution that stands with the optimism of the photographic medium and the certainty of DeCarava’s artistic moment. In 1952 DeCarava became the first African American photographer to win a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The one-year grant enabled DeCarava to focus full time on the photography he had been creating since the mid-1940s and to complete a project that would eventually result in The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a moving, photo-poetic work in the urban setting of Harlem. DeCarava compiled a set of images from which Hughes chose 141 and adeptly supplied a fictive narration, reflecting on life in that city-within-a-city. First published in 1955, the book, widely considered a classic of photographic visual literature, was reprinted by public demand several times. This fourth printing, the Heritage Edition, is the first authorized English-language edition since 1983 and includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava tracing the history and ongoing importance of this book.

The Sound I Saw

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Author : Roy Decarava
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 2001-09-13

The Sound I Saw written by Roy Decarava and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-13 with Photography categories.

This is the long-awaited publication of a moving masterwork by one of the greatest photographers of our time. Conceived, designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava (b.1919) in the early 1960s, yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has largely existed as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography world. Presented 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 jazz. "This is a book about people, about jazz, and about things. The 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. DeCarava 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 survival. Largely unpublished, he was first recognized for his images of daily life in Harlem (the subject of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his 1955 collaboration with Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes) and portraits of musicians like Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday. It is these two themes, Harlem and jazz, interwoven and inseparable, that are the ostensible subject of the book. However, 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.

The Waters Of Our Time

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Author : Giancarlo T. Roma
language : en
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Release Date : 2014-04-22

The Waters Of Our Time written by Giancarlo T. Roma and has been published by powerHouse Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Photography categories.

The second collaboration between father and son Thomas Roma and Giancarlo T. Roma, The Waters of Our Time is a book that could only be done in the latter part of this renowned photographer's career and with the unique contemplation of his watchful son. A retrospective of sorts, the book contains 142 of Roma's photographs spanning most of his career, beginning on the cover with a picture taken from his first roll of film shot in 1972, and a fictional text by Giancarlo T. Roma, written as a first-person narrative recollection in the voice of an older woman who has spent her life in Brooklyn. The written story begins on the book's cover and is interwoven with the photographs, lending a reflective quality to the interplay between them. In this way, the project is a true collaboration, resembling the making of a movie in reverse, where the pictures function as the script and the text acts as the moving images, coming in response. The title comes from the song "Follow" (written by Jerry Merrick and famously sung by Richie Havens, also a Brooklyn native), whose lyrics are reproduced throughout the book, and serves as kind of a sound track to the story, adding to the cinematic quality. The Waters of Our Time was conceived as an homage to Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes' book The Sweet Flypaper of Life published in 1955, a cherished part of the elder Roma's library. The book remains true to Flypaper in terms of design (size, layout, font), but differs greatly in process. Whereas Hughes selected and sequenced DeCarava's photographs before writing the text for Flypaper, Roma selected and sequenced his own photographs first, leaving Giancarlo to write the text in the white space between pictures for The Waters.

Roy Decarava A Retrospective

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Author : Peter Galassi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Roy Decarava A Retrospective written by Peter Galassi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Afro-American photographers categories.

Roy Decarava Photographs

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Author : Roy DeCarava
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981

Roy Decarava Photographs written by Roy DeCarava and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Photography categories.

A collection of photographs depicting everyday life in New York City by the first Black artist to receive a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Langston Hughes

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Author : C. James Trotman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-25

Langston Hughes written by C. James Trotman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Literary Criticism categories.

First published in 1995. This volume focuses on the life and influence of Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and forms part of the Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture series. The series is devoted to original, book-Iength studies of African American developments. Written by well-qualified scholars, the series is interdisciplinary and global, interpreting tendencies and themes wherever African Americans have left their mark.

To Bird With Love

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Author : Chan Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981

To Bird With Love written by Chan Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Jazz musicians categories.

Not Without Laughter

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Author : Langston Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-05

Not Without Laughter written by Langston Hughes and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-05 with Fiction categories.

Poet Langston Hughes' only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.

C Nto

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Author : Joelle Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Saqi Books
Release Date : 2021-06-07

C Nto written by Joelle Taylor and has been published by Saqi Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-07 with Poetry categories.

WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2022 'Visionary and powerful. I loved it.' Hollie McNish The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own – their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women. Part-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate. C+nto is a love poem, a riot, a late night, and an honouring. minds. Here is poetry that defends our right to walk without fear, wear what we choose, be who we uniquely are." - - Diana Souhami