"Roy DeCarava’s “Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, DC,” for instance, is a closely cropped portrait of a girl, devastating in its immediacy. Only the image’s title and the glimpsed fragments of bodies behind and in front suggest a political solidarity to match the sobriety and purpose that radiate from her face. De Carava...is one of several photographers represented here with multiple works. He was my favorite: It would be almost impossible to match the compositional clarity and narrative crispness of “Graduation, New York” and “Lingerie, New York” or the shadow-filled poetry of “Couple Dancing, New York” or “Coltrane and Elvin, New York” (jazz lovers will keel over before the latter)." ~ Sebastian Smee, The Boston Globe
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:03:24 +0000
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