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RISDM 84-222-2.tif
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Roy DeCarava

Hallway

Description

Maker

Roy DeCarava (American, 1919-2009)

Title

Hallway

Year

1953

Medium

  • gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • gelatin silver print

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

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Jesse H. Metcalf Fund

Object Number

84.222.2

Type

  • Photographs

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Roy DeCarava
Photographs from the Collection
Jan 11, 2002 – Mar 31, 2002

Label copy

"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
Work By African American Artists
Feb 20, 1998 – Jun 14, 1998
African-American Art from the Permanent Collection
Nov 18, 1994 – Feb 19, 1995

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Roy DeCarava (American, 1919-2009)
Hallway, 1953
Gelatin silver print
Plate: 32.9 x 21.8 cm (12 15/16 x 8 9/16 inches)
Jesse H. Metcalf Fund 84.222.2

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