David Zwirner has taken on worldwide representation for the estate of photographer Roy DeCarava, whose moody and diffuse black-and-white images tell bountiful stories of life in New York beginning in the 1940s and up through the decades before the artist’s death in 2009, at the age of 89. This fall, David Zwirner Books will help distribute a reissue of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a 1955 book of photos and text that DeCarava made in collaboration with the poet Langston Hughes, and next year the gallery will stage a show of DeCarava’s work in New York around the occasion of the centennial of his birth.
