Image
Description
Maker
- Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009, American
Title
Shirley Looking Down Stairwell
Year
1952
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Materials/Techniques
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Materials
Supports
Dimensions
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Sheet: 35.4 x 28 cm (13 15/16 x 11 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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LR corner, in ink, "Decarava".LR corner, in a different ink, smudged,"47".Verso, in bottom center, in graphite, "224 - #12 - 2"
Type
Credit
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Georgianna Sayles Aldrich Fund
Object Number
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2002.4
About
This photograph conveys the anxiety of a waiting woman. Made the year Roy DeCarava won a prestigious fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, it is part of a larger project in which DeCarava intimately captured daily life in Harlem. His deeply compassionate images of his community so impressed Langston Hughes that the poet wrote a text to accompany them for what became a hugely successful book, The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
LR corner, in ink, "Decarava".LR corner, in a different ink, smudged,"47".Verso, in bottom center, in graphite, "224 - #12 - 2"
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