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Roy DeCarava

Hallway, 1953

Description

Maker

  • Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009, American

Title

Hallway

Year

1953

Medium

gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Plate: 32.9 x 21.8 cm (12 15/16 x 8 9/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Copyrighted and dated in pencil LR:©1982 Roy DeCarava

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Jesse H. Metcalf Fund

Object Number

84.222.2

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Roy DeCarava

January 11 - March 31, 2002

"It's about a hallway that I know I must have experienced as a child. Not just one hallway; it was all the hallways that I grew up in. They were poor, poor tenements, badly lit, narrow and confining; hallways that had something to do with the economics of building for poor people. When I saw this particular hallway I went home on the subway and got my camera and tripod, which I rarely use. The ambience, the light in this hallway was so personal, so individual that any other kind of light would not have worked. It just brought back all those things that I had experienced as a child in those hallways. It was frightening, it was scary, it was spooky, as we would say when we were kids. And it was depressing. And yet, here I am an adult, years and ages and ages later, looking at the same hallway and finding it beautiful." (Roy DeCarava, 1981)

One Voice, Many Visions

February 20 - June 14, 1998

African-American Art from the Permanent Collection

November 18, 1994 - February 19, 1995

Use

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