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Carl Van Vechten
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Carl Van Vechten, n.d., Self portrait of Carl Van Vechten with Ethel Waters, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/18546
Carl Van Vechten


Born: 1880 - US
Died: 1964
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
Portrait photographer specializing in literary and theatrical figures in New York. The Library of Congress has a collection of 1,395 photographs taken between 1932 and 1964. The Smithsonian American Art Museum also has a significant collection including portraits from the portfolio 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes and the unrealized portfolio Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After

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Carl Van Vechten, n.d., Self portrait of Carl Van Vechten with Ethel Waters, Gelatin silver print, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/18546
Image: LL/18546
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Doris Ulmann, 1933 (ca), Carl Van Vechten, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81456
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Carl Van Vechten, 1933, 13 November, Self-Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81373
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Carl Van Vechten, 1933, 5 September, Self-Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81376
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Carl Van Vechten, 1934, 9 March, Carl Van Vechten, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81372
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Carl Van Vechten, 1935, 7 February, Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein at the Poe Shrine in Richmond, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81374
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Carl Van Vechten, 1936, 7 August, Self-Portrait, Taft Hotel, New Haven, Gelatin silver print, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, LL/81375
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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. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult years, Van Vechten engaged in numerous affairs with other men during his lifetime.
 

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