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Roy DeCarava Langston Hughes The Sweet Flypaper of Life (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Sweet Flypaper of Life
- Publication Name
- The Sweet Flypaper of Life
- Title
- The Sweet Flypaper of Life
- Contributor
- Sherry Turner DeCarava (Afterword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780999843819
- ISBN
- 9780999843819
- Publisher
- Zwirner Books, David
- Genre
- Photography, Travel, Social Science
- Topic
- Individual Photographers / Monographs, General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Release Date
- 06/09/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 7.1in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Number of Pages
- 108 Pages
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"The sensitivity of the photographs and the excellent blending of the pictures with the text... Bravo!" Henri Cartier-Bresson The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a "poem" about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew and felt deeply about life in their city. Hughes' heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. We experience the sights and sounds of Harlem through her learned and worldly eyes, expressed here through Hughes' poetic prose. As she states, "I done got my feet caught in the sweet flypaper of life and I'll be dogged if I want to get loose." DeCarava's photographs lay open a world of sense and feeling that begins with his perception and vision. His ruminations go beyond the limit of simple observation and contend with deeper meanings to reveal these individuals as subjects worthy of art. As Hughes keenly observes, "We've had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it's time to have one showing how good it is." First published in 1955, the book, widely considered a classic of photographic visual literature, was reprinted by public demand several times. This fourth printing, the Heritage Edition, is the first authorized English-language edition since 1983 and includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava tracing the history and ongoing importance of this book.
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Publisher
Zwirner Books, David
ISBN-10
0999843818
ISBN-13
9780999843819
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309895920
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sweet Flypaper of Life
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / Monographs, General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Photography, Travel, Social Science
Number of Pages
108 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.1in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F128.9.N3d4 2018
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A mixture of the warm and stark, the tender and the slightly terrifying- in short, very like life itself., "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" is an incredible wonder that is so compact you can almost cradle it in your palm. A sense of humanity permeates the black-and-white photographs., A harmony more than poetry or photography alone, but its own kind of art... a delicate and lovely fiction-document of life in Harlem., It is a book, then, that continues to fascinate, even more so, perhaps, in the current political climate. Its timely reissue will hopefully alert a new generation to a still undervalued master of intimate observation and his singular collaboration with a writer who instinctively understood his radical vision., The Sweet Flypaper of Life remains a lauded title that conveys Harlem as a microcosm within the larger city., "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" is an incredible wonder that is so compact you can almost cradle it in your palm. A sense of humanity permeates the black-and-white photographs...And DeCarava's narrow range of deep tones breathes beautiful life into the black faces of the young and old., The Sweet Flypaper of Life is the story of Black love: of family and community, of life and death, of the rich textures in the tapestry of daily life that forms our sense of self and the bonds we bear on this earth., The sensitivity of the photographs and the excellent blending of the pictures with the text... Bravo!
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Afterword by
Decarava, Sherry Turner
Lccn
2018-287180
Dewey Decimal
305.896/07307471
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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