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Aug 25, 2016 · At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Carl Van Vechten ( 1880 – 1964) picked up a camera and discovered the power the photographic portrait has over the photographer himself. Over the decades, his fascination with the medium remained strong and he asked writers, musicians, athletes, politicians, and others to sit for him — many of them ...
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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 .
- December 21, 1964 (aged 84), New York City, U.S.
- June 17, 1880, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
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. by Emily Bernard. 376 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 in, 41 b-w illus. Paperback. 9780300192520. Published: Friday, 31 May 2013. $37.00. BUY. eBook. 9780300183290. Published: Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012. $20.00. Buy. Also Available At: Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Bookshop. Indiebound. Indigo.
Apr 12, 2024 · Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten (born June 17, 1880, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1964, New York City) was a U.S. novelist and music and drama critic, an influential figure in New York literary circles in the 1920s; he was an early enthusiast for the culture of U.S. blacks.
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Jun 10, 2013 · Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White by Emily Bernard. reviewed by Cameron McWhirter. Carl Van Vechten is best-known today not for who he knew or what he wrote but for the title of his most famous novel: Nigger Heaven.
Van Vechten was a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance. Entranced by Paul’s singing of Negro spirituals, Van Vechten introduced the Robesons to his inner circle of friends, which included composer George Gershwin, writer Theodore Dreiser, publishers Alfred & Blanche Knopf, financier Otto Kahn, and dancer Adele Astaire. 1933. Copyright.
