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Carl Van Vechten was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1880. The youngest son of a successful banker and a mother who was an patron of the arts, Van Vechten grew up in a liberal and sophisticated household. He graduated in 1903 from the University of Chicago, his interest in writing causing him to take a job as a journalist.
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in music, dance, theater, fine art, literature, sport, or advocacy.
30 de jul. de 2021 · By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a prescient photographer, and a Negrophile bar non. A white man with an abiding passion for blackness Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction -- pt. 1. A niche somewhere ...
3 3 Summary Title: Carl Van Vechten Papers (1833-1965; bulk dates 1920-1940) Size: (156.3 linear ft.) 208 archival boxes, 339 volumes. Source: Gift of Carl Van Vechten and the Van Vechten estate 1941-1988; additional gifts from Bruce Kellner (1980-1982), Saul Mauriber (1967) and Paul Padgette; purchase Edward Jablonski (1965). Restrictions: Some of the original typescripts of Van Vechten have ...
Carl Van Vechten Gallery. The Carl Van Vechten Gallery was founded in 1949, a testament to the foresight and vision of Fisk University. It owes its name to Carl Van Vechten, an American writer and photographer known for his support of African American artists during the Harlem Renaissance. Recognizing the need for a dedicated space to showcase ...
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), Critic, novelist and photographer. Artist of 22 portraits An American essayist and novelist of Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works (1922) and the controversial Nigger Heaven (1926), Van Vechten only took up photography in 1932, aged 51, aiming to portray all the leading creative talent of his era. He worked in a makeshift studio apartment with a Leica, using painted ...
25 de ago. de 2016 · August 25, 2016. When author and social commentator Carl Van Vechten focused his camera on the African American community of writers, artists, singers, athletes, and politicians in Harlem beginning in the 1930s, it was an eye-opening experience. Not only did he manage to capture key figures of the Harlem Renaissance often early in their careers ...
