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DeCarava, photographer who recorded Harlem, dies

October 29, 2009 By The Associated Press  ULA ILNYTZKY (Associated Press Writer)

NEW YORK (AP) — Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89.

DeCarava died in Manhattan of natural causes on Tuesday, said his daughter, Susan DeCarava. He had been teaching an advance photography course at Hunter College, where he joined the faculty in 1975.

Born in Harlem, DeCarava...

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