Man on a stoop with a baby
Photograph
1952 (photographed)
1952 (photographed)
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| Place of origin |
35mm format image of an African-American man, neatly dressed and wearing a hat, seated with a baby in his arms beside steps leading up to a Brownstone house in Harlem.
Object details
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| Title | Man on a stoop with a baby (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin silver print - probably vintage |
| Brief description | Photograph 'Man on a stoop with a baby' by Roy De Carava, 1952. |
| Physical description | 35mm format image of an African-American man, neatly dressed and wearing a hat, seated with a baby in his arms beside steps leading up to a Brownstone house in Harlem. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Roy DeCarava 1952' (Signature; English) |
| Credit line | Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Mrs Robert Conway |
| Object history | Historical significance: Roy DeCarava was the first African-American to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative photography - in 1952, the year of this photograph. Inspired by H. Cartier-Bresson, DeCarava set himself to document the lives of the community in which he lived in Harlem, New York. This is one of his finest photographs, a touching image of paternal love. |
| Production | Attribution note: This is not from a numbered edition, but a relatively small number of prints would have been made. |
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| Bibliographic reference | DeCarava, Roy. The Sweet Flypaper of Life (with text by Langston Hughes). New York: 1955, 1967 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.277-1999 |
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| Record created | November 17, 1999 |
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