Research Catalog
- Title
- Roy DeCarava : light break.
- Author
- DeCarava, Roy,
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : First Print Press ; New York, NY : David Zwirner Books, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TR647.D43 A4 2019g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 24 pages, 100 plates on 200 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations; 30 cm
- Summary
- Though DeCarava often refrained from public discussion of his work, this catalogue provides important background into determining factors of his aesthetic sensibility - his traditional training in painting and printmaking as well as his philosophical undertakings. It brings the viewer to a consideration of contradictory precepts in DeCarava's work that seeks resolution through tonal and structural elements within the image. "Light Break" presents a wide-ranging selection of DeCarava's photographs accompanied by a preface by Zoé Whitley, an American curator based in London, and features an introduction and essay by curator and art historian Sherry Turner DeCarava.
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- Photographs. Selections
- Alternative Title
- DeCarava
- Light break
- Photographs.
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- Exhibition catalogs.
- Photographs.
- Note
- Catalogue published on the occasion of Roy DeCarava : Light Break exhibition held at David Zwirner, New York, September 5-October 26, 2019.
- "The 2019 exhibition honoring the centennial of photographer Roy DeCarava at David Zwirner, New York, presents a thoughtful, wide-ranging one-hundred-print survey of the artist's work, from 1948 to 2006. Confirming his central role within the canon of photography in the modern and postmodern era, the exhibition and catalogue offer viewers and readers an opportunity to appreciate and consider Roy's work in a comprehensive context. ... Roy considered silver gelatin photography to be the artistic medium of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With an expansive, worldly view, he worked consistently from the late 1940s to the mid-2000's, coaxing from the process a philosophy of art that recalled aspects of Hegelian synthesis. ... Utilizing an "infinite" scale of grey tones, his work drew upon concepts of photographing with available light ; the study of physics ; geometries of landscape ; classical and innovative figure studies ; and his overarching belief in the alignment of relationships, aesthetics, and soul consciousness. He would say on occasion that life called upon his sense of integrity to represent certain causes. Among the most important, he felt, was that photography was an artistic practice and the silver gelatin medium can offer each individual a unique pathway to beauty and revelation."--adapted from Introduction, pages 6-7.
- ISBN
- 1644230259
- 9781644230251
- LCCN
- 99989442547
- OCLC
- on1105953746
- 1105953746
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- Columbia University Libraries