Generations in black and white / / photographs by Carl van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection ; edited by Rudolph P. Byrd
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| Autore: |
Vechten Carl van
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| Titolo: |
Generations in black and white / / photographs by Carl van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection ; edited by Rudolph P. Byrd
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, GA : , : University of Georgia Press, , 2014 |
| ©1993 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973/.0496073/00922 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans |
| Photograph collections - Connecticut - New Haven | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ByrdRudolph P. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; W |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Generations in black and white |
| ISBN: | 0-8203-4699-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808019103321 |
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