I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it. - Roy Decarava
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.
- Roy Decarava
The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history. - Roy Decarava
The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.
I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether i… - Roy Decarava
I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether i…
Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen. - Roy Decarava
Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself. - Roy Decarava
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.
A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything… - Roy Decarava
A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything…
I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new fo… - Roy Decarava
I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new fo…
It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject. - Roy Decarava
It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.
My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-ar… - Roy Decarava
My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-ar…
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