Van Der Zee
Americannoun
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
When he composed a portrait of a mother and father holding their deceased child, Van Der Zee placed a radio in frame to make the funerary scene appear more homelike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
“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 • Feb. 18, 2025
My brother showed me some photographs my father had taken in college and he had an exhibit as if he was James Van Der Zee.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022
Last December, the Met, together with the Studio Museum in Harlem, announced that it would acquire and conserve thousands of photographs by James Van Der Zee, the portraitist who chronicled the Harlem Renaissance.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022
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