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'O, write my name' : American portraits, Harlem heroes

Title
'O, write my name' : American portraits, Harlem heroes / photographs by Carl Van Vechten ; [introduction by Darryl Pinckney] ; edited by Leslie George Katz and Peter Kayafas ; image interpretation by Richard Benson and Thomas Palmer.
Author
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Publication
  • New York : Eakins Press Foundation, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
  • Benson, Richard, 1943-2017
  • Kayafas, Peter
  • Katz, Leslie George, 1918-1997
  • Palmer, Thomas.
  • Eakins Press Foundation.
  • James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters (Yale University)
Description
133 pages : 50 duotone portraits; 26 cm.
Summary
O, Write My Name: American Portraits, Harlem Heroes, now also a traveling exhibition organized by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library, presents us with portraits of 50 extraordinary people who participated in the great cultural movement that was the Harlem Renaissance. This collection of 50 exquisite duotone prints by the photographer, critic and novelist Carl Van Vechten is a celebration of these inimitable writers, actors, musicians, painters, athletes and intellectuals as well as an acknowledgment of their unprecedented contribution to American art and culture. Van Vechtens friendship with his subjects is reflected in the intimate nature of these portraits. With an insightful introduction by American novelist, playwright and essayist Darryl Pinckney, this book is an homage to the African American men and women from the Harlem Renaissance who continue to inspire generations.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • portraits.
  • photobooks.
  • Portraits
  • Portraits.
  • Photobooks.
  • Livres de photographies.
Note
  • "[O]riginally published in 1983 as a portfolio of hand-pulled gravures limited to an edition of 100 copies" -- page 131.
Source (note)
  • Gift of Peter Kayafas, the Earkins Press Foundation
ISBN
  • 9780871300706
  • 0871300702
OCLC
  • ocn904340085
  • 904340085
  • SCSB-1820890
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library