Roy DeCarava
Written by duckrabbitIt sucks that the first time you often find out about photographic talent is when they’ve gone. It’s great that their work lives on. Great art will be discovered and re-discovered, buried and uncovered, defaced, replaced, exhumed, resuscitated, reappraised and at some point gradually returned to dust. You can’t own it, there are no pockets in shrouds, you can just keep it selfishly from others.
Some art will settle heavily in your heart. Some art will become your guide and your light. So it must be for some of the people who tread lightly around the work of Roy Decarava.
It’s true that duckrabbit isn’t a big fan of black and white photography. Well not the digital kind produced by a lot of kids now. No wonder because when you come across the work of someone like Roy DeCarava, whose carefully measured shadows carry the weight of history, everything else looks light.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (3 Comments)
Loved that last sentence…
I agree this work is great but why is duckrabbit not a fan of digital black and white “produced by a lot of kids now”?
Hi Jonny, most of the time, but not always, it looks really very imitative and stands up badly to the work that had gone before.