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VanDerZee, photographer, 1886-1983 / Deborah Willis-Braithwaite ; biographical essay by Rodger C. Birt.

Title
VanDerZee, photographer, 1886-1983 / Deborah Willis-Braithwaite ; biographical essay by Rodger C. Birt.
Author
Willis, Deborah, 1948-
Publication
New York : H.N. Abrams, c1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Birt, Rodger C.
  • Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983
  • National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution).
Description
192 p. : ill., ports.; 30 cm.
Summary
James VanDerZee photographed the people and places of his Harlem neighborhood from the time he open a studio in 1912 until near his death in 1986.
Subject
  • Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983 > Exhibitions
  • Portrait photography > Exhibitions
  • African Americans > New York > Exhibitions
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition, pictorial works
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition, pictorial works.
Note
  • "In association with the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution."
  • Exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 1993-Feb. 13, 1994.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 192).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Alan Fern -- They knew their names / Deborah Willis-Braithwaite -- A life in American photography / Rodger C. Birt -- Plates -- Notes -- Bibliography.
ISBN
0810939231 :
LCCN
^^^93018307^
OCLC
  • 27431596
  • SCSB-12409428
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library