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| Flashes of Genius: African American Portraits by Carl Van Vechten: A Book of Postcards
     
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Paperback
60 pages
Hill Street Press
Published 2001
About the Author
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1966) is best known as the preeminent photographer of the Harlem Renaissance. His work is today a centerpiece of the Library of Congress collections.
Book Description
The address book of Carl Van Vechten, novelist, critic, and photographer, could easily have been mistaken for a Who's Who of American luminaries in the arts, academe, civil rights, and politics. From the 1930s until his death in 1966, he photographed significant African American men and women of genius-friends, acquaintances, and those he admired. The 24 detachable postcards in this book include photographs of Marian Anderson, Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Cab Calloway, W. E. B. DuBois, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Mahalia Jackson, and Richard Wright. |
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
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