02561nam 2200613 450 991080801910332120200520144314.00-8203-4699-3(CKB)3710000000093225(EBL)1653222(SSID)ssj0001562647(PQKBManifestationID)16210882(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001562647(PQKBWorkID)14834113(PQKB)11507239(OCoLC)873805747(MdBmJHUP)muse35184(Au-PeEL)EBL1653222(CaPaEBR)ebr10849489(CaONFJC)MIL582547(OCoLC)874097886(MiAaPQ)EBC1653222(EXLCZ)99371000000009322520140328h20141993 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenerations in black and white /photographs by Carl van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection ; edited by Rudolph P. ByrdAthens, GA :University of Georgia Press,2014.©19931 online resource (201 p.)Includes index.0-8203-4617-9 0-8203-1558-3 Cover; Contents; List of Portraits; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Portraits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; WThis 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 LeAfrican AmericansPortraitsAfrican AmericansBiographyPhotograph collectionsConnecticutNew HavenAfrican AmericansAfrican AmericansPhotograph collections973/.0496073/00922Vechten Carl van439693Byrd Rudolph P.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808019103321Generations in black and white4085649UNINA