Roy DeCarava is a Master American photographer. Roy DeCarava was born in Harlem in December of 1919, and lived there through many decades of important changes to the neighborhood. In DeCarava’s youth, Harlem was cultivating its reputation as a flourishing African American neighborhood, and he came of age during a time when many prominent black artists, musicians and writers were in their prime. Wikipedia
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