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
- Albert C. Barnes, 1940
- Alfred Lunt, 1932
- Anna May Wong, 1939
- Antony Tudor, 1941
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1958
- Arthur Gold dan Robert Fizdale, 1952
- Arthur Schwartz, 1933
- Ben Gazzara, 1955
- Martha Graham dan Bertram Ross, 1961
- Billie Holiday, 1949
- Cesar Romero, 1934
- Christopher Isherwood dan W. H. Auden, 1939
- Christopher Plummer, 1959
- Dizzy Gillespie, 1955
- Don Bachardy, 1954
- Donald Windham dan Sandy Campbell, 1955
- Eartha Kitt, 1952
- Elsa Maxwell, di Conte de Savoia, 1935
- Evelyn Waugh, 1940
- Feral Benga, 1937
- Fernand Léger, 1936
- Gertrude Stein, 1935
- Gian Carlo Menotti, 1944
- Giorgio de Chirico, 1936
- Gloria Davy, 1958
- Gore Vidal, 1948
- Harry Belafonte, 1954
- Hugh Laing (kiri), 1940
- Hugh Walpole, 1934
- James Baldwin, 1955
- James Stewart, 1934
- John Gielgud sebagai Richard II, 1936
- John Van Druten, 1932
- José Quintero, 1958
- Karen von Blixen-Finecke, 1959
- Katharine Cornell, 1933
- Laurence Olivier, 1939
- Lotte Lenya, 1962
- Lynn Fontanne, 1932
- Mabel Dodge Luhan, 1934
- Marlon Brando, 1948
- Maurice Grosser, 1935
- Norman Douglas, 1935
- Norman Mailer, 1948
- Orson Welles, 1937
- Paul Taylor, 1960
- Pavel Tchelitchew, 1934
- Philip Johnson, 1933
- Philip Johnson, 1963
- Pierre Balmain dan Ruth Ford membuat gaun, 1947
- Robert Morse, 1958
- Tallulah Bankhead, 1934
- Truman Capote, 1948
- Victor Kraft, 1935
- Virgil Thomson, 1947
- W. Somerset Maugham, 1934
- W. C. Handy, 1941
- Robert Hunt dan Witter Bynner
Referensi
Catatan
- ^ a b "Portraits by Carl Van Vechten – Carl Van Vechten Biography – (American Memory from the Library of Congress)". Memory.loc.gov. Diakses tanggal March 9, 2010.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Carl Van Vechten's Camera Documented Personalities". Cedar Rapids Gazette. March 10, 1971. Diakses tanggal November 17, 2012. [pranala nonaktif permanen]
- ^ "Carl Van Vechten Biography". Biography.com. December 21, 1964. Diakses tanggal March 9, 2010. [pranala nonaktif permanen]
- ^ 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
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Carl Van Vechten.
- 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.