The Sound I Saw
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2001
Phaidon Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7148-4123-6 (ISBN)
Phaidon Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7148-4123-6 (ISBN)
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The first published volume of highly original work by the master American photographer.
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designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava (b.1919) in the early 1960s, yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has largely existed as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography world.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 Largely unpublished, he was first recognized for his images of daily life in Harlem (the subject of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his 1955 collaboration with Harlem Renaissance poet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.
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designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava (b.1919) in the early 1960s, yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has largely existed as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography world.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.
Roy DeCavara, a life-long New Yorker, is a revered figure in the photography world. He was first recognized for his images of daily life in Harlem, as in The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his 1955 collaboration with Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, and for portraits of musicians like Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday.
Introduction by Roy DeCarava * 196 black and white photographs by DeCarava interspersed with DeCarava's poetry
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.9.2001 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 263 x 338 mm |
| Gewicht | 2370 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7148-4123-4 / 0714841234 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7148-4123-6 / 9780714841236 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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