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...descendant of the quick-witted literary strollers that the French called flaneurs. Looking out for the knotty surprises the street has in store, he was like Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris or Harry Callahan in Chicago. What was different for DeCarava was that most of his streets were in Harlem, which made him a roving eye in a part of town that the rest of the world didn't see much of. In the retrospective of his work that runs through May 7 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, then travels to eight other American cities...
...most of his career DeCarava, who was born in 1919, has been a freelance photographer. He was 35 when he had his first critical and commercial success, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a 1955 book that combines his pictures of Harlem life with text by the poet Langston Hughes. If the book is sometimes guilty of the blandness of concerned photography, it also contains pictures that mark the beginning of DeCarava's best work, most of which dates from the 1950s and '60s. His street pictures speak in the international language of the snapshot aesthetic. Figures...
DIED. AUSTIN HANSEN, 85, photographer who recorded the daily life of Harlem over six decades; in New York City. Hansen, who began taking pictures at age 12, specialized in news photos...
...Deputy White House chief of staff] Harold Ickes believes no one could have done the Harlem library scene without having been there...
SOME QUESTIONS COME TO MIND regarding Castro, the darling of New York capitalists and (some) minorities: Would the poor people of Harlem trade their civil liberties and freedom of speech for Cuba's socialized health care? Would the elite of American capitalists find Castro so charming if they had to live in Cuba, where the economy was destroyed by the socialist dictator's micromanagement? Can they imagine living on an island that hasn't experienced free speech since 1959? It's time for Castro's enthusiasts to do some soul searching. MARTIN LOPEZ Miami