De Carava, Roy

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De Carava, Roy (1919– )

US artist and photographer. In 1952, he was the first black American to be awarded a Guggenheim. A successful freelance photographer working for advertising agencies and magazines, he organized workshops for black American photographers. He became a professor at Hunter College.

He was born in New York City and, while working as a commercial artist (1944–56), he switched over to photography. In 1955, he published The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a collection of photographs chronicling the lives of blacks in Harlem.

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