Nimble Arc - James Van Der Zee and Photography

Emilie Boone considers James Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and the larger African Diaspora.

List of contents

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction. To Pivot Lightly: Adding the Vernacular to Art History’s Sight Line  1
1. “More, Many More”: Van Der Zee’s World of Harlem Renaissance Studio Photographers  29
2. The Newspaper and Ubiquity: 1924 Photographs as Moving Objects of the African Diaspora  71
3. A Reframing of Value: Van Der Zee’s Restoration Work of the 1940s and Beyond  113
4. Black Quotidian Experiences: Revisiting the Met’s Harlem on My Mind Exhibition of 1969  153
Coda. To Nimbly Rewind: Fixing a New Constellation of Ideas circa 1994  199
Notes  213
Bibliography  241
Index  259

About the author

Emilie Boone is Assistant Professor of Art History at New York University.

Summary

Emilie Boone considers James Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and the larger African Diaspora.

Product details

• Authors: Emilie Boone
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781478020189
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-2018-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Visual Arts of Africa and Its; The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV