Van Der Zee

Or Van Der·Zee

[van der zee]

noun

1. James, 1886–1983, U.S. photographer.

Example Sentences

Work by George Bellows, James Van Der Zee, Mary Cassatt and Robert Henri adorn the walls, and there is a table ready to receive a Tiffany lamp.

From Los Angeles Times

James Van Der Zee, Untitled, 1927, Gelatin silver print, 20.3 × 25.4 cm.

From Los Angeles Times

Buoyant members of a Harlem social club of drag kings and queens posed for James Van Der Zee, while Brassaï cast his quietly voyeuristic eye on a relaxed and tender lesbian couple enjoying a Paris nightclub.

From Los Angeles Times

“Our second show was Edward Curtis, the third was James Van Der Zee, and in six months we were out of the red.”

From Los Angeles Times

In his first New York solo in 1994 he showed, along with “Brotherhood,” a beautiful studio portrait he’d made of his grandfather, Albert Sidney Johnson Jr., a prolific amateur photographer who had himself been photographed by James Van Der Zee and whom Harris considered an inspiration.

From New York Times