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.

Carl Van Vechten
Potret diri (1934)
Lahir	(1880-06-17)17 Juni 1880 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, AS
Meninggal	21 Desember 1964(1964-12-21) (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)​ Fania Marinoff ​ (m. 1914⁠–⁠1964)​

Kehidupan dan karir

Lahir di Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ia merupakan anak bungsu dari pasangan Charles dan Ada Van Vechten.^:14 Ia lulus dari Washington High School pada 1898, dan kemudian University of Chicago pada 1903. Pada 1906, ia pindah ke New York City. Ia diangkat menjadi asisten kritikus musik di The New York Times. Peminatannya dalam opera membuatnya mengambil cuti dari surat kabar tersebut pada 1907, sehingga ia bisa berkunjung ke Eropa untuk mengeksplor opera.

Karya

• 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)

Galeri

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  Albert C. Barnes, 1940
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  Alfred Lunt, 1932
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  Anna May Wong, 1939
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  Antony Tudor, 1941
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  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1958
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  Arthur Gold dan Robert Fizdale, 1952
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  Arthur Schwartz, 1933
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  Ben Gazzara, 1955
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  Martha Graham dan Bertram Ross, 1961
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  Billie Holiday, 1949
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  Cesar Romero, 1934
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  Christopher Isherwood dan W. H. Auden, 1939
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  Christopher Plummer, 1959
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  Dizzy Gillespie, 1955
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  Don Bachardy, 1954
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  Donald Windham dan Sandy Campbell, 1955
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  Eartha Kitt, 1952
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  Elsa Maxwell, di Conte de Savoia, 1935
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  Evelyn Waugh, 1940
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  Feral Benga, 1937
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  Fernand Léger, 1936
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  Gertrude Stein, 1935
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  Gian Carlo Menotti, 1944
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  Giorgio de Chirico, 1936
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  Gloria Davy, 1958
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  Gore Vidal, 1948
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  Harry Belafonte, 1954
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  Hugh Laing (kiri), 1940
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  Hugh Walpole, 1934
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  James Baldwin, 1955
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  James Stewart, 1934
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  John Gielgud sebagai Richard II, 1936
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  John Van Druten, 1932
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  José Quintero, 1958
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  Karen von Blixen-Finecke, 1959
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  Katharine Cornell, 1933
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  Laurence Olivier, 1939
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  Lotte Lenya, 1962
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  Lynn Fontanne, 1932
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  Mabel Dodge Luhan, 1934
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  Marlon Brando, 1948
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  Maurice Grosser, 1935
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  Norman Douglas, 1935
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  Norman Mailer, 1948
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  Orson Welles, 1937
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  Paul Taylor, 1960
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  Pavel Tchelitchew, 1934
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  Philip Johnson, 1933
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  Philip Johnson, 1963
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  Pierre Balmain dan Ruth Ford membuat gaun, 1947
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  Robert Morse, 1958
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  Tallulah Bankhead, 1934
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  Truman Capote, 1948
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  Victor Kraft, 1935
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  Virgil Thomson, 1947
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  W. Somerset Maugham, 1934
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  W. C. Handy, 1941
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  Robert Hunt dan Witter Bynner

Referensi

Catatan

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. 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

Pranala luar

• 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
• 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 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.