Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava
by Gary Golio (Author) E B Lewis (Illustrator)
“Life is how you look at it.” And for Black photographer Roy DeCarava, life in his neighborhood was beautiful. Follow Roy through 1940s Harlem, as he takes out his camera, pops in a roll of film, and opens his eyes to the beauty all around him. There’s a little boy drawing on the sidewalk with chalk. SNAP! A young man at the bus stop with a baby in his arms. SNAP! Kids playing in an open fire hydrant. SNAP! Looking at them all, Roy sees beauty everywhere in Harlem, and so do the people who look at his photos.
This deeply researched picture book also includes additional information on DeCarava, a list of places to view his photos, a bibliography, and photos.
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Publishers Weekly
In an image-centered picture book that summons the senses, the creators navigate Harlem through the lens of photographer Roy DeCarava (1919-2009). Muted watercolor illustrations lend a snapshot quality to each structurally composed scene, beginning with a metropolitan sidewalk: "It's five o'clock. Work is over. Roy's time is his own now." Camera in hand on the subway, he photographs a dozing man; aboveground, a boy drawing with sidewalk chalk: "SNAP!" An artist displaying paintings on the street next catches DeCarava's eye, then a mother photographing her son. Brief descriptive snippets, peppered with quotations from the book's subject, accompany each image, exploring how the photographer "sees so much beauty everywhere," from a crumpled soda can to "Black and brown bodies/ shining bright" in the wash of a fire hydrant. DeCarava captures it all--and so too do Golio and Lewis--in this luminous tribute. Includes more about the subject and a bibliography. Ages 7-10. (Jan.)
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★ In an image-centered picture book that summons the senses, the creators navigate Harlem through the lens of photographer Roy DeCarava (1919-2009)...DeCarava captures it all—and so too do Golio and Lewis—in this luminous tribute. —Publishers Weekly, starred review Lewis gives a selection of DeCarava's subjects, such as a close-up of a crushed can, longer views of Harlem street scenes, and an isolated figure in wedding whites, original treatments that focus more on atmosphere than documentation and so make suitable companions for Golio's impressionistic profile... the author captures both his titular theme and his subject's sensibility in well-chosen direct quotes, and along with adding a brief overview of DeCarava's career, closes by urging readers to 'look slowly, ' as he did, to discover 'what you love where you live.' —Booklist
JNF018010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JNF041000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Photography
