DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Photographs by Roy DeCarava. Signed Copy It remains a fascinating look

It remains a fascinating look at the "rules" that governed the early 20th-century photographic imagination

It details the "trekking" aspect—the grueling journeys via horse

Architectural Dialogue: The introduction by Robert Venturi—co-author of the seminal architectural text Learning from Las Vegas—underscores the book’s visual connection to vernacular architecture

this volume solidified Berman's reputation as a "photographer’s photographer

DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Photographs by Roy DeCarava. Signed Copy It remains a fascinating lookHoward University Press, 1984.[ The first major publication by photographer Roy DeCarava, first issued in 1955. DeCarava was the first African American photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.] First Howard University edition. Copies available: Near fine with near fine dust jacket, discreet blind stamp of previous owner on flyleaf. Fine in very good protected dust jacket with wear along top edge and spine, which is slightly faded. Inscribed to