Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten () adalah seorang penulis dan fotografer artistik Amerik yang menjadi pelindung Renaisans Harlem dan eksekutor kesusastraan dari Gertrude Stein.

Kehidupan dan karier 
Lahir di Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ia merupakan anak bungsu dari pasangan Charles dan Ada Van Vechten. 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)

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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. 
 Kellner, Bruce (1968). Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 
 Kellner, Bruce (ed.) (1980). A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten. Westport: Greenwood Press. 
 Kellner, Bruce (ed.) (1987). Letters of Carl Van Vechten. New Haven: Yale University Press. 
 Smalls, James (2006). The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts . Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 
 White, Edward (2014). The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 

 Hurston, Zora Neale (1984). Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. University of Illinois Press.

Pranala luar 

 
 
 
 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.

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