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ROY DECARAVA

ROY DECARAVA (b. 1919) trained as a painter and printmaker at the Cooper Union, New York, and the Harlem Community Art Center, but has worked in photography through the majority of his career. He was the first African American to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, opened A Photographer's Gallery, New York, in 1954, and co-founded the Kamoinge Workshop, a coalition of African American photographers. He has taught at Hunter College since 1975.