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Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
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Description for Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
Paperback. Editor(s): Byrd, Rudolph P. Series: Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 658.
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 Letters, which Van Vechten established ... Read more
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 Letters, which Van Vechten established ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820346175
SKU
V9780820346175
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About
Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. Rudolph P. Byrd (1953–2011) was a professor of African American Literature and director of African American Studies, Emory University.
Reviews for Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
How vividly the pictures (reflect) the vitality of the black culture of their eras." - Publishers Weekly "Carl Van Vechten's portraits of artists, athletes, academics, and activists he respected . . . reflect his appreciation of the diverse contributions of African Americans." - Booklist