This is the long-awaited publication of a moving masterwork by one of the greatest photographers of our time. Conceived, designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava in the early 1960s yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has largely existed, until now, as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography world. Presented as a stream of 196 soulful images interspersed with DeCarava´s own evocative poetry, the book is, in its form and effect, the printed equivalent of jazz, ´This is a book about people, about jazz, and about things. The Work between its covers tries to present images for the head and for the heart and, like its subject matter, is particular, subjective, and individual´, writes the author.