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Roy DeCarava Quotes

1919–2009 United States

Roy Rudolph DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009) was an American photographer.

United States
Photographers

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“I improvise. Improvisation is all about individual interpretations, individual expression. And that’s what I’m doing.”

“They were not used to seeing black artists walk through the door with a portfolio of photographs.”

“When I was trying to sell my photographs, I would take them to art directors and they were literally shaking when they saw my work,”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roy DeCarava (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.