The sweet flypaper of life

112 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 1984 by Howard University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-88258-152-1
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) is the result of a collaborative effort between photographer Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes. Their unique fusion of words and images provides an opportunity to examine how the two media can be brought together to form composite modes of expression. DeCarava and Hughes’s work reveals their deft command of both African American and Western cultural practices, which they employ to forward their vision of black Americans as full participants in American life and culture.

4 editions

Subjects

  • African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Pictorial works
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Pictorial works
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works