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Graphic Artist. Carl Van Vechten was an enormously creative artist, becoming a noted author, and later, at age 52, a superb portrait photographer. It is unusual for an artist to follow two distinctively different career paths and achieve fame in each area. Van Vechten is still best known for his book, published in 1926, which portrayed African ...
Novelist, essayist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) promoted the work of African-American artists and writers. He was most notably associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the artistic, literary, and musical movement of the 1920s. The City Museum is proud to exhibit a selection of Van Vechten’s photographs from its collection in ...
31 de may. de 2013 · "Carl Van Vechten—a troubling, essential figure in the history of American modernism, not to mention the history of race—has found his best critic and champion in Emily Bernard, who takes the issues the writer and photographer raised in his work and examines them through the lens of a distinctly twenty-first century perspicacity."—Hilton Als, author of The Women
Carl Van Vechten was a writer, photographer, collector, and patron of the arts. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 17, 1880, Van Vechten developed an early interest in literature and the fine and performing arts. He attended the University of Chicago, and wrote for several Chicago newspapers before moving to New York City in 1906.
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 ...
12 de jun. de 2014 · Carl Van Vechten passed away fifty years ago at the age of 84. If he were alive today, I think he would have enjoyed the idea of the selfie. In the last thirty years of his life, as the modern handheld camera came on the scene, Van Vechten, having observed the easy-to-produce images made possible with a Leica, reinvented himself as a portrait photographer, capturing cultural personalities as ...
4 de feb. de 2022 · Van Vechten, a white American music critic, photographer, and author, was considered an “honorary Negro” by his peers due to his support of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and ’30s. Inspired by this period, he wrote Nigger Heaven, a novel that was controversial in its own time, which illustrates the Black experience in 1920s Harlem ...
