Generations in Black and White: Photographs of Carl Van Vechten.

• Author: Ensign, Tod
• Position: Brief Article

Whether Carl Van Vechten, a major patron of the Harlem Renaissance, was also patronizing is not at issue in this coffee-table book of his photographic portraits of the African-American cultural elite. Each two-page spread includes a left-hand-side brief biography and a right-hand-side full-page black-and-white photograph of everyone from a seventy-eight-year-old W.E.B. DuBois (taken in 1946)...