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Author:

DeCarava, Roy, photographer.

Title:

The sweet flypaper of life / photographs by Roy DeCarava ; story by Langston Hughes.

Edition:

Fourth English language edition.

Publisher:

First Print PressInc. ;

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

98 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm

Subject:

African Americans--New York--New York--Pictorial works.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.)--Pictorial works.
African Americans.
New York (State)--New York.
New York (State)--Harlem.--Harlem.
POETRY / American / African American.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.

Other Authors:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.
DeCarava, Sherry Turner, writer fo afterword.

Notes:

This book is published in celebration of the Centennial of Roy DeCarava. "Renewal ©1983 Roy DeCarava and The Estate of Langston Hughes. ©1955 Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes." -- Title-page verso

Summary:

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. -- publisher's website.
The sweet flypaper of life describes, in words and pictures, what the authors have seen and known and felt deeply about their people. Life in Harlem may be hard; getting up each morning and going to work, knowing that today will be like yesterday and tomorrow. Yet their are rewards, moments - a man walking in the sun, a woman laughing, couples in the park, the watering of a garden on a window sill, a father's touch, a child's glance. "We've had so many books about how bad life is," Langston Hughes says. "Maybe it's time to have one showing how good it is." -- back cover.
^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." -- David Zwirner Books website 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 "We've had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it's 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 DeCarava's 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." -- David Zwirner Books website

ISBN:

0999843818
9780999843819
0999843826
9780999843826

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1050864329

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)