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	James Van Der Zee - MSN Encarta
		James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), African American photographer, whose sensitive portraits and views of New York City's Harlem neighborhood were “discovered” late in his life, bringing him fame and respect as a master American photographer.
		Van Der Zee was born and educated in Lenox, Massachusetts, and pursued a career in music until he opened a photography studio in Harlem in 1916.
		Van Der Zee photographed the famous as well as the ordinary, including portraits of writers Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, activist Marcus Garvey, religious leader Father Divine, and musician Duke Ellington.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579424/Van_Der_Zee_James.html (244 words)

	African American Registry: James Van Der Zee was an acclaimed photographer
		James Augustus Joseph Vander Zee was from Lenox, Massachusetts.
		Van Der Zee worked predominantly in the studio and used a variety of props, including architectural elements, backdrops, and costumes, to achieve stylized tableaux vivants in keeping with late Victorian and Edwardian visual traditions.
		Van Der Zee won increasing attention throughout the 1970s, and from late in that decade until his death in 1983, he photographed many celebrities, promoted his work in shows around the country, and was the subject of books and films.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/965/James_Van_Der_Zee_was_an_acclaimed_photographer (454 words)

	Museum Studies, The Art Institute's Journal
		James Van Der Zee’s portraits of artists, musicians, and other notable figures serve as a record of African American society in New York during the exciting and rapidly changing era that was the Harlem Renaissance.
		Van Der Zee, a self-taught photographer, strove to portray his subjects in a flattering light, in order to emphasize their elegance and dignity.
		Here Van Der Zee photographed Daddy Grace on a platform to the left of the altar; the choir surrounds the stairs leading to the platform, directing our eyes to the church leader and thereby conveying the devotion and awe he inspired.
	www.artic.edu /webspaces/museumstudies/ms242/portfolio7.shtml (345 words)

	Vignette: James Van Der Zee (1886-1983)
		Van Der Zee, originally from Lenox, Massachusetts, moved to New York City in 1906 with his father and brother and worked as a waiter and elevator operator.
		Van Der Zee discovered photography as a hobby in his hometown of Lenox when at the age of fourteen he received a toy camera from a magazine promotion.
		In 1915 Van Der Zee left New York and moved to Newark, New Jersey, where he had taken a job in a portrait studio, first as a darkroom assistant, and then as a portraitist.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/vanderzee_james.htm (455 words)

	AFRO-Americ@: Art Gallery
		Van Der Zee was not a New York native.
		Van Der Zee took so much time with his posing and lighting that he was often unable to complete more than three sittings a day.
		Van Der Zee loved to arrange his subjects and, no doubt, gave a lot of thought to the position of the couple and the car.
	www.afro.com /culture/artgallery/archive9/art3.html (914 words)

	James Van Der Zee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Van Der Zee was originally from Lenox, Massachusetts; he soon traveled to Harlem.
		Van Der Zee would sometimes combine several photos in one image, to present the scene as he thought it should have been.
		Van Der Zee was a working photographer who supported himself through portraiture, and who devoted time to his professional work before his more artistic compositions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Van_Der_Zee (721 words)

	African Culture Online - African Culture Forums, News, Articles, Photos, Radio - Photographer James Van Der Zee
		Van Der Zee himself grew up in a world as privileged as the one his subjects inhabited.
		Then in 1968, Van Der Zee was "discovered" at the age of 82, when a photo researcher named Reginald McGhee stumbled on his collection of 75,000 photos covering six decades of African-American life.
		Van Der Zee died in 1983 at the age of 96, leaving behind a legacy of images so compelling that it's hard to see Harlem through any other eyes.
	www.africancultureonline.com /forums/printthread.php?t=72 (964 words)

	Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Wedding Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Van der Zee was considered to be the dean of Harlem photographers.
		Van der Zee gained a reputation as a fine portrait photographer.
		Van der Zee was considered the official photographer for Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association movement.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/Harlem/text/wedding.html (152 words)

	James Van Der Zee
		James VanDerZee was born on June 29, 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts.
		James VanDerZee was one of the first Afro-American Photographers and is remembered as one of the most important photographers of the Afro-American community.
		James moved to Harlem in 1905 and opened his first studio in 1916 and began photographing families, weddings, celebrities, and individuals in the Harlem area.
	esperstamps.org /aa59.htm (365 words)

	The Givens Foundation: K-12 Curricula: Curriculum Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Van Der Zee had his own photography shop in Harlem for over fifty years, including during the 1920s when Harlem was the undisputed center of African American cultural life.
		James Van Der Zee was born on June 29, 1886, in Lenox, Massachusetts, but eventually settled permanently in New York City.
		Van Der Zee’s body of work includes images of his extended family, of his wife and children, of famous African Americans, such as Marcus Garvey, and of everyday people in Harlem.
	www.givens.org /curriculum_detail.asp?CurriculumID=82 (886 words)

	James VanDerZee Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		James VanDerZee (1886-1983) created a photographic history of the people of Harlem--celebrities and ordinary people, in hope and despair--covering over 60 years.
		James VanDerZee was born in Lenox, Massachusetts, on June 29, 1886, in a four bedroom frame house built by his grandfather.
		The VanDerZee youngsters were such excellent students that James once told a reporter that "the other kids didn't try." VanDerZee learned photography in a front bedroom of that frame house, but he was at least 14 before he took a picture that satisfied him--one of his brother Walter's school class.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/james-vanderzee (1204 words)

	Van Der Zee, James - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		VAN DER ZEE, JAMES [Van Der Zee, James] 1886-1983, American photographer, b.
		The son of Ulysses S. Grant's maid and butler, Van Der Zee opened his first studio in Harlem, New York City, in 1915.
		In 1967 the Metropolitan Museum of Art discovered Van Der Zee's remaining 40,000 prints and negatives and displayed many of them in its "Harlem on My Mind" exhibit (1969).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vanderze.html (209 words)

	Van Der Zee James - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Van Der Zee James - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Van Der Zee, James (1886-1983), African-American photographer, whose sensitive portraits and views of New York's Harlem neighbourhood were...
		Waals, Johannes Diderik van der (1837-1923), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
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	Van Der Zee
		Born in 1886, Van DerZee is a fl photographer who worked out of an anonymous studio in Harlem for over 50 years.
		Van DerZee kept all of the negatives — mostly portraits.
		Van DerZee experimented with flash powder until he found his own formula, and by the time light meters had arrived, he had already learned to judge light conditions by sight alone.
	www.dangheno.net /pwritingspg6.htm (834 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . James Van Der Zee \| PBS
		Van Der Zee made his first photographs as a boy in Lenox, Massachusetts.
		In 1915 Van Der Zee moved to Newark, New Jersey, where he took a job in a portrait studio, first as a darkroom assistant and then as a portraitist.
		Van Der Zee won increasing attention throughout the 1970s, and, from late in that decade until his death in 1983, he photographed many celebrities and promoted his work in shows around the country.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/james_van_der_zee.html (434 words)

	Photographer James Van Der Zee \| Scholastic.com
		There Van Der Zee was raised on a steady diet of music and art.
		First and foremost, Van Der Zee's operation was a business, and he shot the people who could pay his price.
		Van Der Zee died in 1983 at the age of 96, leaving behind a legacy of images so compelling that it's hard to see Harlem through any other eyes.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/honormlk/jamesvan.htm (1006 words)

	SDMA: News
		Van Der Zee was foremost a studio photographer, capturing his sitters at their best and forging through the centuries of negative stereotyping and derogatory images of people of color.
		In addition to his portraits, Van Der Zee photographed interiors, clubs, sports teams, church groups, parades, barber shops, pool halls, street scenes and funerals all with great pride and fascinating beauty.
		Van Der Zee's meticulous darkroom techniques allowed him to not only present his community at its best for posterity, but to add a psychological and ethereal dimension to many of his everyday images.
	www.newpaltz.edu /museum/archive.cfm?id=2882 (484 words)

	New York Institute of the Photography - Tips for Better Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Van Der Zee was born on June 29, 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts.
		Van Der Zee felt that photographs should look better than the person; so he painstakingly improved the prints in his darkroom.
		Van Der Zee possessed an amazing amount of talent and precision in his photography.
	www.nyip.com /tips/topic_spotlight1201.php (872 words)

	Museum of Contemporary Photography: Simpson, Lorna
		Always interested in exploring identity through the instant assumptions provided by her use of visual clues, Lorna Simpson took James Van der Zee’s photographs as her starting point for 9 Props.
		Van der Zee was an African-American photographer who made studio portraits of an emerging Black middle class in Harlem in the early twentieth century, complete with painted backdrops and domestic furnishings that suggest the prosperity of his subjects.
		Made while she was an artist-in-residence at Pilchuck, a glassblowing school in Seattle, Simpson had the artisans recreate the vases that appear in Van der Zee’s pictures.
	www.mocp.org /collections/permanent/simpson_lorna.php (457 words)

	James Van der Zee Funeral Parlor FLORICE MILLS. (Lot 195) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Van der Zee Funeral Parlor FLORICE MILLS.
		Signed by Van der Zee and dated 1927 in the negative, with his "G.G. Photo Studio, Inc. 109 West 135th St." stamp on verso, and a bit of a framing label from that studio, and the name "Florice Mills" in pencil on the verso.
		Other examples of Van der Zee's fanciful funeral parlor collages are presented in "The Harlem Book of the Dead." A paperback copy of this scarce 1987 book is included.
	www.icollector.com /item.aspx?lid=5217477 (152 words)

	James Van Der Zee ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
		James Pitts 1757 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
		The Twelve Apostles: Saints Bartholomew, Andrew, Matthew, James the Greater, Thaddeus, Philip, James the Lesser,
	wwar.com /masters/v/van_der_zee-james.html (520 words)

	Inventory of the James Van Der Zee framed photograph collection
		Abstract: The collection consists of eighteen framed, signed, Van Der Zee photographs from a 1974 portfolio distributed by Graphics International Ltd. The original photographs, taken between 1905-1938, document African American life in Harlem, Van Der Zee's own family (in Lenox, Mass.), and Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association.
		The majority of his photos, however, were taken of ordinary people, weddings, funerals, religious congregations, social clubs, civic organizations, barber shops and beauty salons, drugstores, schools, sports clubs, and other elements of the vibrant community life of Harlem in the 1920s and '30s.
		The Auburn Avenue Research Library has 18 framed photographs by James Van DerZee, purchased in 1985, each taken from a limited edition run of 75.
	dlg.galileo.usg.edu /aafa/print/aafa_aarl85-002.html (874 words)

	James Van Der Zee Online
		James Van Der Zee in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		James Van Der Zee at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Professional Tools:
		All images and text on this James Van Der Zee page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/van_der_zee_james.html (238 words)

	James Van der Zee - Rights and Restrictions Information (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		James Van der Zee - Rights and Restrictions Information (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		The use of James Van der Zee's photographs is restricted.
		The rights to James Van der Zee's photographs are claimed by his wife.
	www.loc.gov /rr/print/res/383_vand.html (138 words)

	Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
		In addition to the artists previously mentioned, the exhibit will have 19th and early 20th century works by James P. Ball, Francis Firth, Lottie Jacobi, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, and James Van der Zee.
		The photographic book has played an important role in photography collecting at Haverford over the past decade, and will be a prominent component of the exhibit.
		A highlight of "Ten Years of Acquisitions" will be the 1930 editions of Pairs' Black Sun Press and New York's Liverwright Press printings of Hart Crane's poem The Bridge.
	www.haverford.edu /gallery/shows/photography10/press.html (340 words)

	Valentine New York
		From 1916 until 1969, James VanDerZee operated a portraitstudio at various addresses in Harlem.
		The exhibition tentatively entitled “The James VanDerZee Studio,” will be on view in Gallery 1 at the Art Institute from January 24 through April 25, 2005.
		No exhibition could evoke a bygone time more vividly than this one will, and that, after all, is what we expect great photography to do for us.
	www.valentinenewyork.com /vnymag/jamesvanderzee.htm (532 words)

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