Roy Decarava and Langston Hughes: The Sweet Flypaper of Life 9780999843819

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Автор: , Hughes Langston
Название: Roy Decarava and Langston Hughes: The Sweet Flypaper of Life
ISBN: 9780999843819
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Поэзия

Социальная история и история культуры

Этнические исследования

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

ISBN-10: 0999843818
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 106
Вес: 0.23 кг.
Дата издания: 25.09.2018
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrated in duotone throughout
Размер: 137 x 133 x 10
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: 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.

Hughess 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 Hughess poetic prose. As she states, I done got my feet caught in the sweet flypaper of life and Ill be dogged if I want to get loose. DeCaravas 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 Weve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe its 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 DeCaravas 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.