Roy DeCarava started off as a painter where he later on decided to trade his brushes off for a camera making him one of the most recognized photographers today who created the most iconic images of the Civil Rights movement and jazz musicians in motion.
The picture I have chosen to evaluate on is his very own self-portrait taken in the year 1956. When I first looked at this photograph, it gave me the emotions of feeling very mysterious and even a little eerie. However, when I examine the photograph more in detail and longer, I feel the textures of the photograph being smooth, silky, and gentle. I believe that being that he was once a painter, it affected the way he took photographs. This close study of his own portrait can definitely be portrayed looking it as a painting, with a soft and subtle language behind this picture.