"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else
without getting a few drops on yourself."
"I tried to pose each person in such a way as to tell a story..."
James Van Der Zee
James Van Der Zee
1886-1983, photographer, pianist, violinist.
Marcus Garvey Rally, 1924.
Gelatin silver print, 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.1 × 23.8 cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Gelatin silver print, 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.1 × 23.8 cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
CARL VAN VECHTEN
1880-1964 Photographer and writer
1880-1964 Photographer and writer
In 1906, he moved to New York City. Van Vechten was interested in black writers and artists,
and knew and promoted many of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
including Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters, Richard Wright, and Wallace Thurman.
Van Vechten's controversial novel Nigger Heaven was published in 1926.
His essay "Negro Blues Singers" was published in Vanity Fair in 1926.
Photography by Carl Van Vechten-
Gladys Bentley 1932, Harlem
Langston Hughes, 1936
Romare Bearden, 1944
Zora Neal Hurston, 1938
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