1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1919–2009 · UNITED STATES
Roy DeCarava
Deep-toned, intimate pictures of Harlem life and jazz musicians.
- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 2009
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1955The Sweet Flypaper of Life (with Langston Hughes)
- 2001The Sound I Saw
WHY THEY MATTER
First African-American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship; National Medal of Arts (2006); retrospective surveys by the Museum of Modern Art.
THE LIFE
DeCarava trained as a painter and turned to photographing everyday life in Harlem, printing in deep, dark tones. He became the first African-American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, which let him photograph his community. With Langston Hughes he published The Sweet Flypaper of Life, and from 1955 he ran A Photographer's Gallery at his own expense. He taught at Hunter College for many years and received the National Medal of Arts in 2006.
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Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
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Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
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Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition), 1953Source: Wikipedia
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Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
American Photographs, 1938Source: Wikipedia
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Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia