Catalog accompanying an exhibition of photographs by Harlem Renaissance figure James VanDerZee, held at The Studio Museum in Harlem from June 20-September 1, 1982, and subsequently traveling to there New York State Museum. Square 8vo (8 × 8 inches), staple-bound pictorial wrappers, 23 pages, illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions. With texts by Daniel Dawson, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and Deborah Willis-Thomas, examining VanDerZee as both chronicler and participant in Harlem life and the development of his distinctive studio practice. Published while VanDerZee was still living, and drawing upon the photographer’s archive then in the custody of the Studio Museum. Designed by photographer Anthony Barboza. An important late-lifetime institutional survey of VanDerZee’s photographs of Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. Scarce in commerce. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Catalog accompanying an exhibition of photographs by Harlem Renaissance figure James VanDerZee, held at The Studio Museum in Harlem from June 20-September 1, 1982, and subsequently traveling to there New York State Museum. Square 8vo (8 × 8 inches), staple-bound pictorial wrappers, 23 pages, illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions. With texts by Daniel Dawson, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and Deborah Willis-Thomas, examining VanDerZee as both chronicler and participant in Harlem life and the development of his distinctive studio practice. Published while VanDerZee was still living, and drawing upon the photographer’s archive then in the custody of the Studio Museum. Designed by photographer Anthony Barboza. An important late-lifetime institutional survey of VanDerZee’s photographs of Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. Scarce in commerce. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
