James Van Der Zee
Known as: Photographer
Style: The Harlem Renaissance / Modernism
Nationality: African-American
Born: 1886
Died: 1983
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Help James Van Der Zee James Van Der Zee s work is most black portraiture that is beautified meaning he would go back and straighten teeth airbrush etc but also he would do things such as making ghost like |
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to find glamour there He created a view of social structure in Harlem through his photographs which later on became a historical archive kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York James Van Der Zee s attraction to photography had him start with a job as a darkroom assistant and later opened his own studio in Harlem after he learned the fundamentals of photography |  virtujamesvanderzeestudioportrait1929 jpg
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In some wedding photos like the one above he d add a child to the bottom suggesting the couple s future and in funeral photos he s put a portrait of the person at their own funeral His work all takes place in Harlem and his aim was to find glamour there He created a view of social structure in Harlem through his photographs which later on became a historical archive |
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