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James Augustus Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period.
Nov 28, 2021 · Photographer James Van Der Zee created an extraordinary chronicle of life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s and beyond. Residents of this majority Black neighborhood in New York City turned to Van Der Zee and his camera to mark special occasions.
Apr 2, 2014 · James Van Der Zee was a renowned, Harlem-based photographer known for his posed, storied pictures capturing African American citizenry and celebrity.
James Augustus Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period.
Jun 25, 2024 · James VanDerZee (born June 29, 1886, Lenox, Mass., U.S.—died May 15, 1983, Washington, D.C.) was an American photographer, whose portraits chronicled the Harlem Renaissance. VanDerZee made his first photographs as a boy in Lenox, Mass.
James VanDerZee is one of the country's most distinctive portrait photographers. From his first experiments with a small box camera around the age of fourteen, his interest continued as he photographed friends and family in Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia for pleasure and occasional commissions.
James Van Der Zee, whose career spanned over eighty years, is one of the best known photographers of the Harlem Renaissance. His comprehensive practice documents a wide spectrum of life in twentieth-century Harlem, from the everyday to the aspirational.
Like many portrait photographers of his day, the Harlem-based James Van Der Zee retouched his negatives—just one of many techniques he used to show his subjects in their best light.
NEW YORK— James Van Der Zee, the celebrated African American photographer whose studio was at the crossroads of the Harlem Renaissance, depicted the lives of black New Yorkers for decades. Forty of his influential portraits will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 7- April 27, 2019.
James Augustus Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period.
