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An Ode To James Van Der Zee: Lorna Simpson’S 9 Props, Emilie C. Boone
An Ode To James Van Der Zee: Lorna Simpson’S 9 Props, Emilie C. Boone
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Reproducing The New Negro: James Van Der Zee’S Photographic Vision In Newsprint, Emilie C. Boone
Reproducing The New Negro: James Van Der Zee’S Photographic Vision In Newsprint, Emilie C. Boone
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In the summer of 1924, as a departure from his concentration on portraits in his Harlem studio, James Van Der Zee served as the official photographer for the Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Many of the resulting photographs were published in the organization’s popular, internationally distributed newspaper, the Negro World. The newsprint medium in which the UNIA photographs appeared in reproduction, along with their editorial arrangement on the page, animated a different photographic vision from that of the gelatin silver print studio portraits often celebrated as Van Der Zee’s defining contribution …