Book jacket image for Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem by Gary Golio

Calkins Creek

9781662680557

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Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem

This beautiful biographical picture book about the essential American photographer Roy DeCarava will inspire readers to “look slowly” and discover a deep love for the everyday moments in their lives.

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Review of ‘Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem’

Between jobs, Roy DeCarava would pop a new film canister into his black-and-white camera and capture the day-to-day lives of the neighborhood he called home: Harlem. As he photographed the world around him—from a young Black boy drawing with sidewalk chalk, to a sunlit Black woman standing in a white dress, or an older Black…

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