Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 280 pages. Produced on the occasion of a major traveling retrospective on DeCarava. Featues an introduction by noted curator and photo historian Peter Galassi and an essay by Sherry Turner DeCarava Includes 194 tritone photographs and an additional 43 duotones. A fine copy in a gray cloth boards in a close to near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and with some sunning to the spine. Still a nice copy of what is still one of the best books on this important African-American photographer whose collaboration with Langston Hughes resulted in the classic book "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" is widely considered one of the best photo books of the 20th century.