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Roy DeCarava

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Harlem Renaissance artist, founder in the field of black and white fine art photography (1919-2009)

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Born: 1919-12-09
Died: 2009-10-27
Works: 8

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Roy DeCarava, photographer
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Roy DeCarava, photographs
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Type: Person
Active from: 1919-12-09
Active to: 2009-10-27

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Born: 9 December 1919
Died: 27 October 2009

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Instance of: human
Given name: Roy
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Harlem
Place of death: Manhattan
Occupation: university teacher
Educated at: Cooper Union
Employer: Hunter College
Languages spoken: English language

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1919 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American photographers African-American photographers American people of Jamaican descent American portrait photographers Cooper Union alumni Hunter College faculty Jazz photographers Military personnel from New York City Photographers from New York City United States National Medal of Arts recipients

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P551: Bedford–Stuyvesant
P6379: Whitney Museum of American Art
P937: Brooklyn

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