universitybookstore:Photographer Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) made portraits
universitybookstore:Photographer Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) made portraits of many key figures in the Harlem Renaissance, including the writers pictured here: Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, Margaret Walker, Richard Wright, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen.I just wanted to add that there’s a recent post over at Kottke titled, ‘The Best Thing Ever Written About Politics and Art’ which discusses Du Bois’ essay ‘Criteria of Negro Art’. Here’s a bit from the contributor, Tim Carmody, on Du Bois’ essay:“I first read this essay at least twenty years ago, but I swear I’ve thought about “when God makes a sculptor He does not always make the pushing sort of person who beats his way through doors thrust in his face” every day since. Every day. I think about it for black artists, for gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer artists, for women who put up with harassment and abuse from the very people who’ve promised to help them pursue their art. And I think about it even more when I think about the thousands if not millions of people who were turned away from ever becoming artists, writers, musicians, actors, sculptors, dancers, engineers, designers, programmers, or any other critical or creative field where doors are so often thrust in your face.Yes, push through those doors. But hold them open after you. Because the next person, God may not have made to be one whose first inclination is to push.” -- source link
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