Conversations with Roy DeCarava / a film by Carroll Blue ; a production of Carroll Blue and The Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Blue, Carroll Parrott, film director, film producer.

DeCarava, Roy, on-screen participant.

Haley, Alex, narrator.

Omori, Emiko, director of photography.

Davidson, Olive, director of photography.

Malley, Patrick, director of photography.

Simmons, John, director of photography.

Whipple, Laura, editor of moving image work.

Schwartz, David, editor of moving image work.

Owens, Jimmy, 1943- composer.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

First Run/Icarus Films.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeCarava, Roy.

Photography, Artistic.

African American photographers.

African Americans.

Jazz musicians.

History.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

City and town life in art.

African Americans--History--20th century.

Jazz musicians--New York (State)--New York--Portraits.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographical films.

Documentary films.

Pictorial works.

Portraits.

Video recordings.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (28 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

'It starts before you snap the shutter... It starts with your sense of what's important.' These are the words of Roy DeCarava, one of the foremost photographic artists of the twentieth century, contributor to the Family of Man exhibit and the first black photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. These are the words of a man who focuses his lens, sensitivities and conscience on the life, tempo and sensibilities of black people and the contemporary urban environment. Conversations with Roy DeCarava examines his life and work, and features appearances by internationally noted photographer Ansel Adams, photography critic A.D. Coleman, and the executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell. It deftly interweaves 108 of DeCarava's black and white stills with a portrait of the artist discussing his life, past struggles, his efforts to foster young black photographers, and the relationship of his work to the black experience in America. DeCarava's unforgettable images have immortalized the jazz world through his photographs of contemporaries Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Roy Haynes and others.

Participant:

Narrator, Alex Haley ; Roy DeCarava, Sherry Turner DeCarava, A.D. Coleman, Beauford Smith, Ansel Adams, Mary Campbell.

Credits:

Cinematography, Emiko Omori, Olive Davidson, Patrick Malley, John Simmons ; editors, Laura Whipple and David Schwartz ; music by Jimmy Owens.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Carroll Parrot Blue, ©1983; previously released in 1984.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 8, 2016).

Publisher Number:

if-conv Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.