Roy DeCarava

*1919-2009 / United States

Works

Contacts for the work of Roy DeCarava

Steichen Collections LU

Steichen Collections
Château de Clervaux
9712 Clervaux
00352-929657
fom@cna.etat.lu
steichencollections-cna.lu
Mar-Dec: Wed-Sun 12-18

Solo exhibitions

the sound i saw

David Zwirner, Los Angeles (US)
19 Sep 2026 – 31 Oct 2026
Selected Works

David Zwirner, London (GB)
14 Jan 2022 – 19 Feb 2022
Roy DeCarava

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (US)
17 Oct 2020 – 3 Jan 2021
Light Break

David Zwirner, New York (US)
5 Sep 2019 – 26 Oct 2019
the sound i saw

David Zwirner, New York (US)
5 Sep 2019 – 26 Oct 2019
In Time

Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York (US)
12 Jan 2006 – 11 Mar 2006
Recent Work

Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York (US)
13 Sep 2003 – 25 Oct 2003
A Retrospective

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
25 Jan 1996 – 7 May 1996

Group

Photographic Memory

Fifty Years of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery, Washington (US)
14 Nov 2026 – 7 Nov 2027

with Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, Alexander Gardner, Yousuf Karsh, Tseng Kwong Chi, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray , Carl van Vechten
Photography as a Way of Life

Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan

High Museum of Art, Atlanta (US)
9 Oct 2026 – 7 Feb 2027

with John Baldessari, Harry Callahan, Linda Connor, Emmet Gowin, Arthur Siegel, Aaron Siskind, Ming Smith, Kiki Smith, Minor White
THE FAMILY OF MAN

UNESCO Memory of the World

Steichen Collections, Clervaux (LU)
18 Mar 2026 – 29 Dec 2026

with Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Erich Andres, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Lou Bernstein, Eva Besnyoe …
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985

Mississippi Museum of Art, Los Angeles (US)
25 Jul 2026 – 8 Nov 2026

with Billy Abernathy, Harry Adams, Raphael Albert, Ralph Arnold, Anthony Barboza, James Barnor, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite, Dwight Carter, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong …
Black Photojournalism

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (US)
15 Mar 2026 – 5 Jul 2026

with Harry Adams, Anthony Barboza, Kwame Brathwaite, Adger Cowans, Doris Adelaide Derby, Louis Draper, Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris, David Hartt, Chester Higgins, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks …
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
24 Feb 2026 – 14 Jun 2026

with Billy Abernathy, Harry Adams, Raphael Albert, Ralph Arnold, Anthony Barboza, James Barnor, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite, Dwight Carter, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong …
Black Photojournalism

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
13 Sep 2025 – 19 Jan 2026

with Harry Adams, Anthony Barboza, Kwame Brathwaite, Doris Adelaide Derby, Louis Draper, Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris, David Hartt, Chester Higgins, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks, Ming Smith …
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
21 Sep 2025 – 4 Jan 2026

with Billy Abernathy, Harry Adams, Raphael Albert, Ralph Arnold, Anthony Barboza, James Barnor, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite, Dwight Carter, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong …
Picture Party: Celebrating the Collection at 50

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
3 May 2025 – 20 Dec 2025

with Ansel Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Harry Callahan, Jo Ann Callis, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Heinecken, Graciela Iturbide, Tseng Kwong Chi, Susan Meiselas, Ozier Muhammad, Eadweard J. Muybridge …
Cities Are for People: Street Photography, 1945-1970

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (US)
30 Sep 2023 – 25 Feb 2024

with Diane Arbus, Ilse Bing, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Louis Draper, Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, William Klein, Dorothea Lange …
Photography in Ink

A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure

Penumbra Foundation, New York (US)
1 Dec 2022 – 15 Mar 2023

with Berenice Abbott, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eric Chenal, Lois Conner, Milagros de la Torre, Jenia Fridlyand, Costanza Gastaldi, Deborah Luster, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kurt Markus, Daido Moriyama, Ken Schles
Burn It In

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
29 Nov 2022 – 25 Feb 2023

with Alex Majoli, Ray K. Metzker, W. Eugene Smith
Conscious Response

Photographers Changing the Way We See

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (US)
22 Jul 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

with Diane Arbus, Dawoud Bey, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Kenro Izu, Gordon Parks, Mike + Doug Starn, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Millee Tibbs, Corine Vermeulen
Visions from America

Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
26 Jun 2022 – 22 Sep 2022

with Vito Acconci, Robert Adams, Merry Alpern, William Anastasi, Janine Antoni, Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Matthew Barney …
Black Every Day

Photographs from the Carter Collection

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (US)
11 Jun 2022 – 11 Sep 2022

with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carlotta Corpron, Earlie Hudnall, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Garry Winogrand
Working Together

The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati (US)
25 Feb 2022 – 25 May 2022

with Anthony Barboza, Louis Draper, Ming Smith, Beuford Smith, Shawn Walker
Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
22 Nov 2021 – 1 May 2022

with Diane Arbus, Mario De Biasi, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Don McCullin, Aaron Rose
A New York Minute

Street Photography, 1920–1950

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US)
10 Jul 2021 – 7 Nov 2021

with Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Arnold Genthe, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Walter Rosenblum, Ralph Steiner, Lou Stoumen, Lloyd Ullberg, James Van Der Zee
Highlights from the Photography Collection

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (US)
16 Apr 2021 – 5 Oct 2021

with Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Julie Blackmon, Margaret Bourke-White, Markus Brunetti, William Henry Fox Talbot, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Peter Hujar, Graciela Iturbide, Tseng Kwong Chi, Dorothea Lange, Deana Lawson …
Photography and the Surreal Imagination

The Menil Collection, Houston (US)
5 Feb 2020 – 14 Jun 2020

with Laure Albin-Guillot, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Cornell, Jay DeFeo, Max Ernst, Georges Hugnet …
Private Consignment Salon & Sale

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta (US)
7 Sep 2019 – 5 Oct 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Lillian Bassman, Julie Blackmon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lucien Clergue, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander …
Go Down Moses

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
18 Jul 2019 – 29 Sep 2019

with Myra Greene, Christian Patterson, Melissa Ann Pinney, Whitten Sabbatini
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

The Broad, Los Angeles (US)
23 Mar 2019 – 1 Sep 2019

with Dawoud Bey, Louis Draper, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorraine O'Grady, Betye Saar, Ming Smith, Charlie White
Harlem: In Situ

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (US)
30 Mar 2019 – 31 Jul 2019

with Lucien Aigner, Dawoud Bey, Lorraine O'Grady, Aaron Siskind, Carl van Vechten, Kehinde Wiley
Family Pictures

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (US)
14 Sep 2018 – 20 Jan 2019

with John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, Carrie Mae Weems
Time is Now

Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America

Carpenter Center Visual Arts, Cambridge (US)
13 Sep 2018 – 30 Dec 2018

with Diane Arbus, Dawoud Bey, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, Joanne Leonard, Ken Light, Danny Lyon, Marion Palfi, Marion Post Wolcott, Steve Schapiro, Ben Shahn …
The 2018 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
8 Nov 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Laia Abril, Nina Berman, Dawoud Bey, Sophie Calle, Alexandra Catiere, Masahisa Fukase, Sohrab Hura, Sally Mann, Raymond Meeks, Susan Meiselas, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Lieko Shiga …
Family Pictures

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (US)
16 Feb 2018 – 20 May 2018

with John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, Carrie Mae Weems
A COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY

The Black Photographers Annual, Volume I

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (US)
16 Feb 2017 – 3 Oct 2017

with Anthony Barboza, Louis Draper, LeRoy Henderson, Ming Smith
MoCP at 40

the MoCP's 40th anniversary

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
28 Jan 2016 – 10 Apr 2016

with Diane Arbus, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Daniel Gordon, Sally Mann, Abelardo Morell, Carrie Mae Weems, Garry Winogrand
Through the Lens

Visions of African American Experience, 1950-1970

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (US)
18 Nov 2015 – 3 Apr 2016

with Bruce Davidson, James Karales, Danny Lyon, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith
America Is Hard to See

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
1 May 2015 – 27 Sep 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Charles Atlas, Alex Bag, Bernadette Corporation, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Walter de Maria, Maya Deren, William Eggleston …
Light/Dark, White/Black

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (US)
17 Jan 2015 – 31 Jul 2015

with Naum Gabo, Sol LeWitt, Ray K. Metzker
In Light of the Past

Twenty-Five Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art - 150 masterpieces

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
3 May 2015 – 26 Jul 2015

with Robert Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andre Kertesz, Gustave Le Gray, Paul Strand, Clarence H. White
Superlative Photography

Howard Greenberg collection

Hungarian House Photo, Budapest (HU)
28 Sep 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Berenice Abbott, Bob Adelman, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Werner Bischof, Edouard Boubat, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jewgeni Chaldej, Harold E. Edgerton …
A Democracy of Images

Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (US)
28 Jun 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Mitch Epstein, Walker Evans, Alfredo Jaar, Annie Leibovitz, Trevor Paglen, Irving Penn
In a Silent Way

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (US)
18 May 2013 – 1 Dec 2013

with David Hammons, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Carrie Mae Weems
Howard Greenberg Collection

Fondation Cartier-Bresson, Paris (FR)
16 Jan 2013 – 21 Apr 2013

with Harry Callahan, Frantisek Drtikol, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Jaromir Funke, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Leon Levinstein, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, David (Chim) Seymour, Garry Winogrand
Howard Greenberg - Collection

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
21 Sep 2012 – 6 Jan 2013

with Berenice Abbott, Eddie Adams, Robert Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Diane Arbus, Lillian Bassman, Werner Bischof, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Claude Cahun, Harry Callahan …
1979:1 — 2012:21: Jan Tichy Works with the MoCP Collection

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
12 Oct 2012 – 23 Dec 2012

with George N. Barnard, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, SHI Guorui, Dorothea Lange, Jan Tichy
Photography Rotation 8

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
13 May 2011 – 12 Mar 2012

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Robert Adamson, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Dimitry Baltermants, Lewis Baltz …
Family of Man

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
8 Jan 2010 – 20 Feb 2010

with Werner Bischof, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ernst Haas, Consuelo Kanaga, Arthur Leipzig, Leon Levinstein, Gordon Parks
The Streets of New York

American Photographs from the Collection, 1938–1958

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
17 Sep 2006 – 15 Jan 2007

with Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, William Klein, Lisette Model, Weegee
Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
7 Oct 2006 – 14 Jan 2007

with Ansel Adams, Dawoud Bey, Bill Brandt, William Clift, Gregory Conniff, Terry Evans, Ray K. Metzker, Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, Alfred Stieglitz
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
12 Dec 2003 – 29 Feb 2004

with Ansel Adams, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Richard Avedon, Aziz + Cucher, John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Sandra Bermudez, Louis Carlos Bernal …
Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photography Collection

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
12 Apr 2003 – 1 Jan 2004

with Chuck Close, Nan Goldin, Lewis Hine, Man Ray , Vik Muniz, Michal Rovner
The Family of Man

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
24 Jan 1955 – 8 May 1955

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Erich Andres, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Hugh Bell , Wermund Bendtsen …

Events

Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
10 Oct 2026 – 14 Oct 2026

with Ansel Adams, Dawoud Bey, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Francis Frith, Fan Ho, Peter Hujar, Felix Moulin, Vik Muniz, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Alexander Rodchenko …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Santa Monica (US)
26 Feb 2026 – 1 Mar 2026

with David Alekhuogie, Kenneth Anger, Uta Barth, Sandra Brewster, Patty Chang, Julian Charriere, Sandra Cinto, Robert Cumming, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Olafur Eliasson, Christina Fernandez, Ryan Gander …
Paris Photo 2025 - Group show

Howard Greenberg Gallery, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Berenice Abbott, Edward Burtynsky, Carlotta Corpron, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Nadav Kander, Jung-Jin Lee, Baldwin Lee, Saul Leiter, Danny Lyon, Ray K. Metzker, Joel Meyerowitz …
Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
3 May 2025 – 7 May 2025

with Hans Bellmer, Brassai, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Walker Evans, Francis Frith, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Alec Soth
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2025

AIPAD, New York (US)
24 Apr 2025 – 27 Apr 2025

with Slim Aarons, Stanko Abadzic, Berenice Abbott, Oliver Abraham, Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Laure Albin-Guillot, Mariette Pathy Allen, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Maria Antelman, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus …
Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
8 Feb 2025 – 12 Feb 2025

with Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Laura Gilpin, Graciela Iturbide, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, August Sander, Paul Strand
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2024

AIPAD, New York (US)
25 Apr 2024 – 28 Apr 2024

with Berenice Abbott, David Alekhuogie, Rogi André, Ljubodrag Andric, Dieter Appelt, Diane Arbus, Tom Arndt, Richard Avedon, Edouard Baldus, Roger Ballen, Mary Ellen Bartley, Lillian Bassman …
Paris Photo 2023 artists

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
9 Nov 2023 – 12 Nov 2023

with Berenice Abbott, Michael Ackerman, Ansel Adams, Albarran Cabrera, Toni Amengual, Eugenio Ampudia, Angelo Funk, Vladimir Antaki, Nobuyoshi Araki, Nadim Asfar, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon …
Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
11 Apr 2022 – 13 Apr 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Edward S. Curtis, Alfred Eisenstaedt, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Horst P. Horst, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz …
Paris Photo 2021

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
11 Nov 2021 – 14 Nov 2021

with Berenice Abbott, Hoda Afshar, Jun Ahn, Aassmaa Akhannouch, Latif Al Ani, Albarran Cabrera, David Alekhuogie, Jean-Michel André, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tom Arndt, Ananké Asseff, Jane Evelyn Atwood …
ADAA: The Art Show 2021

Art Dealers (ADAA), New York (US)
4 Nov 2021 – 7 Nov 2021

with John Baldessari, Sarah Anne Johnson, Isaac Julien, Karen Knorr, Tseng Kwong Chi, Coreen Simpson, Su-Mei Tse
Art Basel 2021

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
24 Sep 2021 – 26 Sep 2021

with Berenice Abbott, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Robert Adams, Sophia Al-Maria, Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Valerie Belin …
PHOTOGRAPHIES

Collections & Propositions

MILLON Drouot, Paris (FR)
3 Nov 2018 – 6 Nov 2018

with Rene Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Charles-Marie-Isidore Choiselat & Stanislas Ratel, Lucien Clergue, Robert Doisneau, Nikos Economopoulos, Karoly Escher, Hans Finsler, Hisaji Hara, Petrina Hicks, Izis (Israelis Biedermanas), Andre Kertesz …
Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
13 Oct 2018 – 18 Oct 2018

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Felice Beato, Constantin Brancusi, Edward S. Curtis, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Tina Modotti, Richard Prince, Malick Sidibe, Aaron Siskind, John Thomson, Carleton E. Watkins
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS

Bonhams New York, New York (US)
29 Sep 2017 – 2 Oct 2017

with Vito Acconci, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Robert Heinecken, Ruth Orkin, Irving Penn, Ed Ruscha, Carleton E. Watkins, Edward Weston
Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)

with Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Lewis Hine, Edward Steichen, Josef Sudek
100 PHOTOGRAPHS

Bonhams New York, New York (US)

with Ansel Adams, Erwin Blumenfeld, Nick Brandt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Nan Goldin, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Thomas Ruff