View Full Version : Roy DeCarava has died
Richard Wasserman
10-28-2009, 05:40 PM
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/parting-2
billschwab
10-28-2009, 06:02 PM
Very sad news. I spent a couple days with Roy when I was a much younger photographer. He was extremely giving and supportive and I absolutely loved his work. He was a huge influence on my photography of musicians in the 80's and early 90's.
RIP Mr. DeCarava!
Jeff Kubach
10-28-2009, 06:10 PM
I'm sorry to hear that. He was a truly a great one. RIP
Jeff
SuzanneR
10-28-2009, 06:34 PM
Very sad news, thank you for passing it along.
mike c
10-28-2009, 06:34 PM
He was one photographer that stood out in my mind,spent hours looking thur the one photo book I have of his.
Mike
papagene
10-28-2009, 07:38 PM
Sad to hear, I always enjoyed seeing his work in books and magazines. I saw a wonderful exhibit of his photos at SUNY New Paltz.
gene
Michael W
10-28-2009, 10:39 PM
He was a great photographer & several of his shots are favourites of mine. He had a wonderful eye.
Andrew Horodysky
10-29-2009, 05:15 AM
Roy DeCarava, besides being a seminal photographer, was also a master teacher. He ran the photography program at Hunter College, for years, and quietly influenced a general of younger photographers.
Renato Tonelli
10-29-2009, 05:23 PM
He was revered by both students and colleagues. He was very patient and giving to his students. I would sometime visit him before the start of his class at Hunter College. We almost never talked about photography, but Jazz. I would ask him about the the great Jazz Masters he had known and photographed; no one photographed them with as much sensitivity like Roy DeCarava.
I will truly miss him.
Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air program just ran an 1996 interview with Roy. Interesting gentleman and photographer. freshair.npr.org
AshenLight
10-30-2009, 12:47 PM
Great photographer. His portrait of Duke Ellington is a masterpiece... RIP.