VanDerZee, photographer, 1886-1983, Deborah Willis-Braithwaite ; biographical essay by Rodger C. Birt
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VanDerZee, photographer, 1886-1983, Deborah Willis-Braithwaite ; biographical essay by Rodger C. Birt
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (page 192)
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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illustrations
Index
no index present
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non fiction
Main title
VanDerZee, photographer, 1886-1983
Nature of contents
catalogsbibliography
Oclc number
27431596
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Deborah Willis-Braithwaite ; biographical essay by Rodger C. Birt
Summary
The career of the African-American photographer James VanDerZee spanned 80 years, from his turn-of-the-century photographs of family and friends in Lenox, Massachusetts, to his late portraits, made when he was in his nineties, of Bill Cosby, Eubie Blake and Jean-Michel Basquiat. VanDerZee is best remembered as the eyes of the Harlem Renaissance, and this book reproduces some of the thousands of photographs he took between the wars in New York's Harlem, where he ran the leading commercial photographic studio. They include portraits of celebrities and community leaders; children and families; weddings and parties; documentary photographs; and photographs of nudes or whimsical subjects for calendars and posters. This study includes many of VanDerZee's best-known images, and essays discussing his life and work
Table Of Contents
Foreword / Alan Fern -- They knew their names / Deborah Willis-Braithwaite -- A life in American photography / Rodger C. Birt -- Plates -- Notes -- Bibliography
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Subject
- Portrait photography
- Exhibition catalogs
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983 -- Exhibitions
- New York (State) + New York
- Exhibition, pictorial works
- Portrait photography -- Exhibitions
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Portraits -- Exhibitions
- Manners and customs
- Portraits
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions
- Illustrated works
- New York (State) + New York + Harlem
- African Americans -- Portraits
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
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- Subject14
- Portrait photography
- Exhibition catalogs
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983 -- Exhibitions
- New York (State) + New York
- Exhibition, pictorial works
- Portrait photography -- Exhibitions
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Portraits -- Exhibitions
- Manners and customs
- Portraits
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions
- Illustrated works
- New York (State) + New York + Harlem
- African Americans -- Portraits
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
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