A self-portrait by James Van Der Zee from 1931. The photographer, who earned a classical education, was also a student of music. Photo: James Van Der Zee Archive/Metropolitan Museum of Art.

James Van Der Zee photographed the Harlem Renaissance. He was born in 1886, and by the time he came to the city, when he was 20, the north end of Manhattan was beating with a creative pulse, like ...

James Van Der Zee/Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York But what you could not do is see Harlem the way photographer James Van Der Zee saw Harlem.

Van Der Zee was born in 1886, the second of six children, all of them bright students and highly accomplished at whatever they took up. On top of his talent with the camera, James had a gift for ...

James Van Der Zee was an African-American photographer known for his distinctive portraits from the Harlem Renaissance. View James Van Der Zee’s 291 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, ...

James Van Der Zee was an African-American photographer known for his distinctive portraits from the Harlem Renaissance. The artist used photography as a means not only to celebrate black culture but ...

James Van Der Zee’s Harlem featured attractive people brimming with vitality. The photographer often hand-tinted prints to add to their beauty. James Van Der Zee Archive/Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Bid Department: T: +1 212 606 7414 Printing/Casting: 1974 Provenance: Collection of Harry Lunn, Washington, D. C. By descent through family Private collection, gift of the above View on Sotheby's ...

Washington There are many Harlems; “James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem” at the National Gallery of Art includes 41 prints by the famed studio photographer from a time when ...

James Van Der Zee (1886 - 1983) was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic ...

This gelatin silver print depicts a crowded room of bystanders, lined along the left and right sides of the frame, observing and capturing the process of the centrally placed photographer, James Van ...

James Van Der Zee American, 1886–1983 Jean Michel Basquiat, 1982 Silver print 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm.) Signed and plate signed; by Donna Van Der Zee verso, blind stamp recto, 21/250 ...