James Van Der Zee (1886-1983),
"Jean Michel Basquiat with cat on lap", 1982
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Today we celebrate the birthday of James Van Der Zee #JamesVanDerZee
"Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts. You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see."
📸 Remembering #JamesVanDerZee, African-American photographer, #BOTD 29 June 1886. #Art #Photography
Flashback to bygone days.
90's History
#JamesVanDerZee
#HarlemRenaissance
#BlackHistory
#PhotographyMatters
#CulturalLegacy #HistoryInFocus
Dedicated to #JamesVanDerZee, the great classic photographic artist of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s & 1930s.
#FineArtPhotography
by
#DouglasHitchGraves
www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/douglashitch-graves
www.tumblr.com/photographybydouglashitchgraves
Seeking to counter the degrading & widely disseminated caricature Âof #Blacks in popular culture, #JamesVanDerZee #photographed #Harlem weddings, funerals, clubs, artists, movers & strivers of the #HarlemRenaissance. His pride is evident in this 1932 photo of a couple beside a Cadillac roadster #NYC
Love letter to American South thru photography-- READ THE PREVIEW
#HowardGreenbergGallery #RahimFortune #photography #PictureThisPostArt #NYCArt #NewYorkCityArtGalleries #GordonParks #JamesVanDerZee #AmericanSouth #RoyDeCarava #PrenticePolk #DocumentaryPhotography
James Van Der Zee
#ohotography #jamesvanderzee #AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth #art