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May 31, 2013 · A groundbreaking inquiry into the life of the audacious Carl Van Vechten, and his singular and singularly controversial contributions to the Harlem Renaissan...
Feb 28, 2012 · Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. Hardcover – February 28, 2012. Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself.
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Aug 25, 2016 · Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten. Author Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) began making portraits in 1932. Over the next three decades, he asked writers, musicians, athletes, politicians, and others to sit for him—many of them central figures in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven .
This book is a portrait of a once-controversial figure, Carl Van Vechten, a white man with a passion for blackness. Van Vechten played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. This book is not a comprehensive history of an entire life, but rather a chronicle of one of his lives, his black ...
May 31, 2013 · Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. Paperback – May 31, 2013. Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself.
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- Emily Bernard
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Jun 10, 2013 · In the 1920s, Van Vechten was the self-appointed ambassador for New York’s black art, music and literary scene and the main interpreter of Harlem to white America. Through his connections with white publishing houses and wealthy patrons, he secured deals for black writers and artists.
