The Sound I Saw

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by Roy Decarava

Phaidon Press

Due/Published November 2003, 208 pages, paper

ISBN 0714843318

New in paper (F03)

This is a photographic portrait of the world of jazz music. Presented as a stream of 196 images interspersed with DeCarava's own poetry, this volume is, in its form and overall effect, a printed equivalent of jazz--composed of passages of pain, sweetness, optimism and suffering.

 Roy DeCarava has documented the people, both famous and anonymous, and the seemingly mundane yet intimate moments of his Harlem neighbours and neighbourhood. The result is at once a work for photography enthusiasts, an historic documentation for jazz lovers, and a message that artistic talent knows no boundaries of race.