The Sound I Saw: Improvisation on a Jazz Theme.

DECARAVA, Roy; with essays by Sherry Turner DeCarava and Radiclani Clytus.

$125.00

Item Number: 146968

New York: First Print Press / Davis Zwirner Books, 2019.

First edition of this expressive celebration of jazz with essays by his wife Sherry Turner DeCarava and American literary historian Radiclani Clytus. Folio, original cloth, illustrated with impressive full-size black and white photographs throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

One of the 20th century's most important photographers, Roy DeCarava practiced photography for almost six decades, spearheading the genre of black and white fine art photography with his affection for the individual creative process. DeCarava's work draws focus to the real lives of black Americans without a serious documentary-style politicization of the experience. While these portraits oftentime model the mundane aspects of daily life, they capture exactly what it means to be human in modern society.