Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (17 Juni 1880 – 21 Desember 1964) adalah seorang penulis dan fotografer artistik Amerik yang menjadi pelindung Renaisans Harlem dan eksekutor kesusastraan dari Gertrude Stein.[1]
| Carl Van Vechten | |
|---|---|
 Potret diri (1934) | |
| Lahir | 17 Juni 1880 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, AS |
| Meninggal | 21 Desember 1964 (umur 84) New York City, New York, AS |
| Pendidikan | Washington High School |
| Almamater | University of Chicago |
| Pekerjaan | Fotografer |
| Suami/istri | Anna Snyder (m. 1907–1912) |
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Lahir di Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ia merupakan anak bungsu dari pasangan Charles dan Ada Van Vechten.[2] Ia lulus dari Washington High School pada 1898,[3] dan kemudian University of Chicago[4] pada 1903. Pada 1906, ia pindah ke New York City. Ia diangkat menjadi asisten kritikus musik di The New York Times.[5] Peminatannya dalam opera membuatnya mengambil cuti dari surat kabar tersebut pada 1907, sehingga ia bisa berkunjung ke Eropa untuk mengeksplor opera.[1]
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- Music After the Great War (1915)
- Music and Bad Manners (1916)
- Interpreters and Interpretations (1917)
- The Merry-Go-Round (1918)
- The Music of Spain (1918)
- In the Garret (1919)
- The Tiger in the House (1920)
- Lords of the Housetops (1921)
- Peter Whiffle (1922)
- The Blind Bow-Boy (1923)
- The Tattooed Countess (1924)
- Red (1925)
- Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel (1925)
- Excavations (1926)
- Nigger Heaven (1926)
- Spider Boy (1928)
- Parties (1930)
- Feathers (1930)
- Sacred and Profane Memories (1932)
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Albert C. Barnes, 1940
Alfred Lunt, 1932
Anna May Wong, 1939
Antony Tudor, 1941
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1958
Arthur Gold dan Robert Fizdale, 1952
Arthur Schwartz, 1933
Ben Gazzara, 1955
Martha Graham dan Bertram Ross, 1961
Billie Holiday, 1949
Cesar Romero, 1934
Christopher Isherwood dan W. H. Auden, 1939
Christopher Plummer, 1959
Dizzy Gillespie, 1955
Don Bachardy, 1954
Donald Windham dan Sandy Campbell, 1955
Eartha Kitt, 1952
Elsa Maxwell, di Conte de Savoia, 1935
Evelyn Waugh, 1940
Feral Benga, 1937
Fernand Léger, 1936
Gertrude Stein, 1935
Gian Carlo Menotti, 1944
Giorgio de Chirico, 1936
Gloria Davy, 1958
Gore Vidal, 1948
Harry Belafonte, 1954
Hugh Laing (kiri), 1940
Hugh Walpole, 1934
James Baldwin, 1955
James Stewart, 1934
John Gielgud sebagai Richard II, 1936
John Van Druten, 1932
José Quintero, 1958
Karen von Blixen-Finecke, 1959
Katharine Cornell, 1933
Laurence Olivier, 1939
Lotte Lenya, 1962
Lynn Fontanne, 1932
Mabel Dodge Luhan, 1934
Marlon Brando, 1948
Maurice Grosser, 1935
Norman Douglas, 1935
Norman Mailer, 1948
Orson Welles, 1937
Paul Taylor, 1960
Pavel Tchelitchew, 1934
Philip Johnson, 1933
Philip Johnson, 1963
Pierre Balmain dan Ruth Ford membuat gaun, 1947
Robert Morse, 1958
Tallulah Bankhead, 1934
Truman Capote, 1948
Victor Kraft, 1935
Virgil Thomson, 1947
W. Somerset Maugham, 1934
W. C. Handy, 1941
Robert Hunt dan Witter Bynner
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Catatan
- ^ a b "Portraits by Carl Van Vechten – Carl Van Vechten Biography – (American Memory from the Library of Congress)". Memory.loc.gov. Diakses tanggal March 9, 2010.
- ^ White, Edward (2014), The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-20157-9
- ^ "Carl Van Vechten's Camera Documented Personalities". Cedar Rapids Gazette. March 10, 1971. Diakses tanggal November 17, 2012.[pranala nonaktif permanen]
- ^ "Carl Van Vechten Biography". Biography.com. December 21, 1964. Diakses tanggal March 9, 2010.[pranala nonaktif permanen]
- ^ Sanneh, Kelefa (February 17, 2014). "White Mischief: The passions of Carl Van Vechten". The New Yorker.
Daftar pustaka
- Bird, Rudolph P. (ed.) (1997). Generations in Black and White: Photographs of Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0820319449
- Kellner, Bruce (1968). Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-0808-8
- Kellner, Bruce (ed.) (1980). A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten. Westport: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-20767-4
- Kellner, Bruce (ed.) (1987). Letters of Carl Van Vechten. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-03907-7
- Smalls, James (2006). The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts Diarsipkan 2006-06-14 di Wayback Machine.. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 1-59213-305-3
- White, Edward (2014). The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-20157-9
- Hurston, Zora Neale (1984). Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01047-7
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- Karya Carl Van Vechten di Project Gutenberg
- Karya oleh/tentang Carl Van Vechten di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
- Karya Carl Van Vechten di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
- Images by Carl Van Vechten in the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York[pranala nonaktif permanen]
- Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten at the Library of Congress features a searchable database of photographs taken by Van Vechten.
- Carl Van Vechten's Portraits from the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University features a searchable database of over 9,000 black-and-white prints
- Carl Van Vechten photographs, 1932–1964 Diarsipkan 2014-08-12 di Archive.is at Brandeis University's Archives & Special Collections, contains 1,689 Van Vechten portraits.
- Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten's Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939–1964, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, features a searchable database of 1,884 rare color Kodachrome slides
- Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
- Postcards from Manhattan: The Portrait Photography of Carl Van Vechten at Marquette University reproduces hundreds of portrait postcards sent by Van Vechten to Wisconsin artist Karl Priebe from 1946–1956.
- Guide to the Carl Van Vechten papers, 1833–1965. Manuscripts and Archives, New York Public Library.
- Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1911–1964. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library.
- Carl Van Vechten theatre photographs, 1932-1943, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Booknotes interview with Emily Bernard on Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925–1964, April 22, 2001.
