Roy DeCarava quotes
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“You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.”
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“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 it's right or wrong.”
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“There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.”
-- Roy DeCaravaSource : "Roy DeCarava obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2009.
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“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 DeCaravaSource : "Roy DeCarava, Harlem Insider Who Photographed Ordinary Life, Dies at 89" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2009.
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“The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.”
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“Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.”
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“A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.”
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“It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.”
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“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-are the crux of what’s important to me.”
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“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.”
-- Roy DeCaravaSource : Roy DeCarava, Peter Galassi, Sherry Turner DeCarava, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1996). “Roy DeCarava, a retrospective”, ABRAMS
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“The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.”
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“For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.”
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“Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.”
-- Roy DeCarava
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