DeCarava's Photos Improvised The Music Of Life

Name: DeCarava's Photos Improvised The Music Of Life
Uploaded: 2009-11-04T20:28:59+00:00
Duration: 2 min 29 s
Channel: nprradiopictures
Description: In the 1950s, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, you snapped mountains and models -- not your neighbors. It also helped to be white. But Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at the age of 89, turned all of that on its head.

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In the 1950s, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, you snapped mountains and models -- not your neighbors. It also helped to be white. But Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at the age of 89, turned all of that on its head.

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