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Dani Issler

Issler lives on the Lower East Side. He is currently pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at Princeton University.



Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes's The Sweet Flypaper of Life

by Dani Issler

| Art Books

In 1955, just as the celebrated Family of Man exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Simon and Schuster published The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a small volume of photographs by Roy DeCarava with text by Langston Hughes.

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