Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

by Carl van Vechten

Book Overview

This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades--primarily as gifts to his subjects, such luminaries as W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, and James...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820315583
• ISBN13: 9780820315584
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.2"