Carl Van Vechten

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)​

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]

Kehidupan dan karier

Lahir di Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ia merupakan anak bungsu dari pasangan Charles dan Ada Van Vechten.^[2]:14 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]

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
• 
  Robert Hunt dan Witter Bynner

Referensi

Catatan

1. "Portraits by Carl Van Vechten – Carl Van Vechten Biography – (American Memory from the Library of Congress)". Memory.loc.gov. Diakses tanggal March 9, 2010. 
2. 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 
3. "Carl Van Vechten's Camera Documented Personalities". Cedar Rapids Gazette. March 10, 1971. Diakses tanggal November 17, 2012. ^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
4. "Carl Van Vechten Biography". Biography.com. December 21, 1964. Diakses tanggal March 9, 2010. ^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
5. 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

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^{[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.