Generations in Black and White - Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

Informationen zum Autor Rudolph P. Byrd (Editor) > Carl Van Vechten (Photographer) > Klappentext This portfolio of eighty-three photographs provides a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten took these photographs over the course of three decades. Included are images of such luminaries as W.E.B. Du Bois! Langston Hughes! Bessie Smith! Billie Holiday! Joe Louis! and James Baldwin. Zusammenfassung 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 such as Richard Wright and Billie Holiday, took these photographs over the course of three decades.

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• Authors: Carl (PHT)/ Byrd Van Vechten
• Assisted by: Carl Van Vechten (Photographs), Carl Vechten (Photographs), Rudolph Byrd (Editor), Rudolph P Byrd (Editor), Rudolph P. Byrd (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2014
• EAN: 9780820346175
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4617-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 273 mm x 19 mm
• Series: A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Fotografie, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Ethnic Issues