Generations in Black and White: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection - Hardcover
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Celebrating African-American achievement in the twentieth century, this collection of photographs profiles such famous figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Bessie Smith.
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Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. Rudolph P. Byrd (1953–2011) was a professor of African American Literature and director of African American Studies, Emory University.
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Van Vechten had long been a champion of African American theater, dance, and music, but his controversial 1926 novel Nigger Heaven alienated much of the black intelligentsia. Despite this anomalous position, Byrd says, Van Vechten continued to celebrate "African American art forms--the spirituals, the blues, jazz." Into the 1960s, Van Vechten set up collections of photography and other cultural artifacts at both black and white universities. The Yale collection, which honors the multitalented James Weldon Johnson, includes some 15,000 of Van Vechten's photographs of acquaintances and friends, black and white. Van Vechten's photographs, Byrd notes, have artistic as well as documentary value: Van Vechten made his subject's pose "the primary locus of meaning," and produced "startling, dramatic, and memorable effects." Van Vechten's portraits of artists, athletes, academics, and activists he respected--from W. E. B. Du Bois and Mary McLeod Bethune to Diahann Carroll and Billy Dee Williams--reflect his appreciation of "the diverse contributions of African Americans." Mary Carroll
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