Generations in Black and White: Photographs of Carl Van Vechten.Whether Carl Van Vechten Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. , a major patron of the Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance, term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North , was also patronizing is not at issue in this coffee-table book cof·fee-ta·ble book n. An oversize book of elaborate design that may be used for display, as on a coffee table. coffee-table book Noun a large expensive illustrated book Noun 1. of his photographic portraits of the African-American cultural elite. Each two-page spread includes a left-hand-side brief biography and a right-hand-side full-page black-and-white photograph of everyone from a seventy-eight-year-old W.E.B. DuBois (taken in 1946) to a twenty-year-old Diahann Carroll (1955). And in between James Earl Jones, Billie Holiday, Alvin Ailey, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Mary McLeod Bethune Noun 1. Mary McLeod Bethune - United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) Bethune -- eighty-three portraits in all, and every subject a legend. |
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