Van Der Zee

Or Van Der·Zee

[van der zee]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The photographer James Van Der Zee brought a sensitive and artful eye to families in a moment of loss.

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The dead don’t care about their appearance, but James Van Der Zee presented them as beautiful.

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“You’re here today and gone sometimes today,” Van Der Zee told the sculptor Camille Billops, who gathered the photographs into a collection and edited this book before it was first published in 1978.

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A transcript of a candid conversation, held when Van Der Zee was 91 years old, is one of two texts that complement the funeral portraiture; the other is writing by the poet Owen Dodson.

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Doing so was the role of the undertaker, Van Der Zee explains, though the photographer had his own aesthetic duties.

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