The sweet flypaper of life

Description:

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.

subjects: African Americans,  Afro-Americans,  Description and travel,  Pictorial works,  Views,  African americans, new york (state), new york,  New york (n.y.), pictorial works,  Photography, artistic,  Artistic collaboration,  Poetry and the arts,  POETRY / American / African American,  PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies,  Fiction

People: Langston Hughes,  Roy DeCarava

Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.),  New York,  New York (N.Y.),  New York (State)

Times: 1950s America