![]() | Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection Subjects: Van Vechten Carl 1880–1964 -- Photograph collections; African Americans -- Portraits; African Americans -- Biography; Photograph collections -- Connecticut -- New Haven; This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades-primarily as gifts to his subjects, such luminaries as W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, and James Earl Jones. Rudolph P. Byrd (Editor) RUDOLPH P. BYRD (1953-2011) was a professor of African American Literature and director of African American Studies, Emory University. Carl Van Vechten (Photographer) 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. |
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