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Chrysler and Atlanta's High Museum Present DeCarava Retrospective

20 April 1998

Chrysler Corporation Teams With the High Museum of Art in Atlanta To Present 'Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective'

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 20 -- Chrysler Corporation Fund
will be the title sponsor of a unique exhibition of photography, "Roy
DeCarava: A Retrospective," presented by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
The exhibition, which features over 200 black and white photographs taken over
five decades, will be on view at the High's Folk Art and Photography Galleries
in downtown Atlanta from June 27 through September 19, 1998.
    "Chrysler is very proud to sponsor such an important artist whose works
represent such great historical perspective on African Americans," said W.
Frank Fountain, President of the Chrysler Fund.  "This is an opportunity for
Roy DeCarava's work to be experienced by thousands of people visiting the
area, especially during the National Black Arts Festival."
    "Roy DeCarava:  The Retrospective" spans the artist's work, from his
groundbreaking pictures of daily life in Harlem, through the civil rights
protests of the 1960s, to more lyrical studies of the natural world.  The
exhibition will also include a selection of DeCarava's landmark photographs of
jazz greats, including a Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Duke Ellington.
    DeCarava, born in New York in 1919, won the first Guggenheim Fellowship
awarded to an African-American photographer in 1952.  Many of his renowned
works are reproduced in "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" (1955), a book with
text by poet Langston Hughes.

SOURCE  Chrysler Corporation