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• Author/Creator:DeCarava, Roy.
  
• Title:Roy DeCarava : twelve photogravures.
  
• Published/Created:Hinsdale, New Hampshire : Renaissance Press, 1991.
  
• Physical Description:1 portfolio (12 photogravures) : b & w ; 20.3 x 28.0 cm. on sheets 45.7 x 55.9 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 62 (Folio)
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:No. 1 from a Hors Commerce edition of 4 copies.
  All but one of the prints are signed and numbered by the photographer.
  Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Roy Rudolph DeCarava (1919-2009) was an African American photographer.
  Sherry F. Turner DeCarava (born 1947) is an art historian and widow of Roy DeCarava.
  
• Summary:Portfolio of twelve dust-grain photogravures printed in 1991 of photographs created by Roy DeCarava, 1950-1979. The images chiefly depict portraits of African American individuals, couples, and groups in the Brooklyn borough of New York, New York, as well as buildings and a Fourth of July picnic. Portraits of identified individuals include singer and songwriter Billie Holiday in 1952; jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson in 1956; singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson in 1950; and jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver in 1963. The portfolio also includes a brief essay by Sherry Turner DeCarava. Paul M. Taylor of Renaissance Press made the photogravure plates, while Clary Nelson of Chestnut Street Press hand printed the photogravures on Arches paper.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Cite as:Roy DeCarava : Twelve Photogravures. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:DeCarava, Roy.
  DeCarava, Sherry Turner.
  Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959--Portraits.
  Jackson, Milt--Portraits.
  Nelson, Clary.
  Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976--Portraits.
  Silver, Horace, 1928-2014--Portraits.
  Taylor, Paul M., 1958-
  African American photographers--New York (State)--New York.
  African Americans--Portraits.
  African Americans--Pictorial works.
  Fourth of July--Pictorial works.
  New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
  
• Genre/Form:Photogravures.
  Portfolios.
  
• Also listed under:DeCarava, Sherry Turner.
  Nelson, Clary.
  Taylor, Paul M., 1958-