Generations in Black and White : Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection.

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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 l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Byrd, Rudolph P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
Temas:
Van Vechten, Carl, > 1880-1964 > Photograph collections.
Van Vechten, Carl, > 1880-1964
African Americans > Portraits.
African Americans > Biography.
Photograph collections > Connecticut > New Haven.
Noirs américains > Portraits.
Noirs américains > Biographies.
Collections de photographies > Connecticut > New Haven.
African Americans
Photograph collections
Connecticut > New Haven
Biographies
Portraits
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Sumario: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. The photographs Rudolph P. Byrd has selected for this volume come from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Le.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:1306512964
9781306512961

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