Research Catalog

Title

The sound I saw : improvisation on a jazz theme / photographs and text by Roy DeCarava ; editor, Sherry Turner DeCarava.

Author

DeCarava, Roy

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York : First Print Press ; New York, New York : David Zwirner Gallery, [2019]
• New York : distributed in the United States and Canada by Simon & Schuster
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• DeCarava, Sherry Turner
• Clytus, Radiclani

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations; 35 x 27 cm

Summary

Roy DeCarava: the sound i saw' is the pictorial equivalent of jazz. Here the visionary photographer turns his gaze on legendary jazz icons John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Ornette Coleman, among many others. "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 DeCarava. A master of poetic contemplation and of sensual tonalities in black and white, DeCarava is, above all, a photographer of people. A member of the post-World War II generation that sought a new modernist vocabulary, he was first recognized for his innovative images of life in Harlem (the subject of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his 1955 collaboration with poet Langston Hughes) and extraordinary portraits of jazz musicians like John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday. It is these two themes-New York and jazz-interwoven and inseparable, that are the ostensible subject of the sound i saw. However, the seemingly casual yet deeply felt compositions and the rich, gradient tones of DeCarava's photographs stir emotions that resonate far beyond one neighborhood and one era.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

• Jazz musicians
• Black author
• United States
• Photography, Artistic
• Jazz musicians > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
• Jazz musicians > United States > Pictorial works
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Poetry
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• DeCarava, Roy
• Pictorial works
• Poetry
• New York (State) > New York > Harlem

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Intervals / Sherry Turner Decarava -- Committed to the image / Radiclani Clytus

Call Number

JNG 20-83

ISBN

• 9781644230107
• 1644230100

OCLC

1126282061

Author

DeCarava, Roy, photographer, author.

Title

The sound I saw : improvisation on a jazz theme / photographs and text by Roy DeCarava ; editor, Sherry Turner DeCarava.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : First Print Press ; New York, New York : David Zwirner Gallery, [2019]

Distributor

New York : distributed in the United States and Canada by Simon & Schuster

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

DeCarava, Sherry Turner, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Clytus, Radiclani, writer of supplementary textual content.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 21-34

JNG 20-83