Carl Van Vechten made his first photographs as a teenager in the Midwest at the turn of the century. After a long career as a journalist, critic, novelist, and man about town in New York, Chicago, and Paris, he turned to photography full time in the 1930s, knowing many of the most interesting artists, actors, and musicians in the United States. Until his death in 1964 Van Vechten made 15,000 photographs that constitute a remarkable catalogue of the leading figures of modern arts and letters. Included in this collection are ...
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Carl Van Vechten made his first photographs as a teenager in the Midwest at the turn of the century. After a long career as a journalist, critic, novelist, and man about town in New York, Chicago, and Paris, he turned to photography full time in the 1930s, knowing many of the most interesting artists, actors, and musicians in the United States. Until his death in 1964 Van Vechten made 15,000 photographs that constitute a remarkable catalogue of the leading figures of modern arts and letters. Included in this collection are subjects as diverse as Cab Calloway and Alfred Stieglitz, George Gershwin and Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo and Tallulah Bankhead. The essay by Keith Davis shows Van Vechten to be a photographer of extraordinary energy and insight, one whose remarkable body of work is significant and under-recognized.
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B/w Photography. Very Good+ in J Very Good+ jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" Tall In pictorial jacket over red wraps with black titling, 4to, 120pp. Illustrated profusely.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0875296696. B&W Photographs; 4to 11"-13" tall; 120 pages; 1st edition. Oversize paperback with photo pictorial dust jacket. Tightly bound and exceptionally fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Feels and appears unread and as new. Lavishly illustrated with large format reproductions of Van Vechten's impressive portrait photographs. F/NF.
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VG-. Shelf wear on edging of covers. Previous owner's name written in marker on half title page, otherwise contents are clean and tight. Crimson paperback with black lettering; BW-illustrated dust jacket. 120 pp. 60 BW plates, 12 BW figures. Considers the life and work of American writer and artistic photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1864). Includes 60 of his portraits, chosen from his catalogue of 15, 000 photographs.
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