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

by Carl van Vechten

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0820315583

ISBN13:9780820315584

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:172 Pages

Weight:2.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 8.8" x 11.2"

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Africa African-American & Black Americas Arts, Music & Photography Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions Ethnic & National History Individual Artists Military Photo Essays Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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