Longtime Photography Professor, Known for Images of Harlem, Dies at 89

I pulled his catalog out and paced myself through each magnificent, poignant image that has been ingrained in my memory. Another tribute to a great photographer.

Longtime Photography Professor, Known for Images of Harlem, Dies at 89:

“11-08-2009When, as a budding photographer, Roy DeCarava applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, his proposal stated: ‘I want to show the strength, the wisdom, the dignity of the Negro people. Not the famous and the well known, but the unknown and the unnamed, thus revealing the roots from which springs the greatness of all human beings.’

That year he became the first African-American photographer to receive a Guggenheim, and he spent 57 more years advancing his goals. He was still pursuing…”

(Via Chronicle.com – Today’s News.)