Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women

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Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women, the catalog for a Beinecke Library exhibition of the same name, includes photographs of about 85 women of achievement photographed by Van Vechten between 1932-1964; each photograph is accompanied by a short biography of the subject. The women include some of the best known of Van Vechten's subjects--Gertrude Stein, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marianne Moore to name a few--and some now-forgotten women who made significant contributions to the ...
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Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women, the catalog for a Beinecke Library exhibition of the same name, includes photographs of about 85 women of achievement photographed by Van Vechten between 1932-1964; each photograph is accompanied by a short biography of the subject. The women include some of the best known of Van Vechten's subjects--Gertrude Stein, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marianne Moore to name a few--and some now-forgotten women who made significant contributions to the Broadway theater community, the Harlem Renaissance, the early Hollywood film industry, and the 1920s and '30s expatriate communities in Paris and London. The group includes performers of all kinds, writers, journalists, salon hostesses, artists, photographers, social activists, etc. The catalog includes an introduction by Bruce Kellner, a leading Harlem Renaissance scholar and the executor of Van Vechten's estate.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780845731482
  • Publisher: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  • Publication date: 8/1/2003
  • Pages: 190
  • Product dimensions: 9.08 (w) x 7.04 (h) x 0.81 (d)

Table of Contents

Berenice Abbott
Adele Addison
Sara Allgood
Judith Anderson
Ann Andrews
Argentinita
Martina Arroyo
Pearl Bailey
Tallulah Bankhead
Djuna Barnes
Ethel Barrymore
Barbara Bel Geddes
Gladys Bentley
Aline Bernstein
Mary McLeod Bethune
Margaret Bourke-White
Janes Bowles
Bricktop
Bryher
Diahann Carroll
Willa Cather
Carol Channing
Ina Claire
Katharine Cornell
Marguerite d'Alvarez
Mercedes de Acosta
Agnes de Mille
Ruby Dee
Isak Dinesen
Geraldyn Dismond
Mattiwilda Dobbs
Lillian Evanti
Ella Fitzgerald
Althea Gibson
Lillian Gish
Emma Goldman
Billie Holiday
Nora Holt
Hedda Hopper
Lena Horne
Zora Neale Hurston
Mahalia Jackson
Louise E. Jefferson
Grace Nail Johnson
Frida Kahlo
Nora Kaye
Eartha Kitt
Blanche Knopf
Nella Larsen
Gerry Major
Fania Marinoff
Mary Martin
Carson McCullers
Mabel Mercer
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mollie Moon
Marianne Moore
Lois Morgan
Helen Morgan
Anais Nin
Madie Norman
Sono Osato
Irra Petina
Leontyne Price
Pearl Primus
Muriel Rahn
Luise Rainer
Ni Gusti Raka
Bertice Reading
Janet Reed
Susan Reed
Tatiana Riabouchinska
Diana Sands
Philippa Duke Schuyler
Bessie Smith
Stettheimer Sisters
Gertrude Stein
Mai Mai Sze
Jessica Tandy
Alice B. Toklas
Margaret Walker
Fredi Washington
Ethel Waters
Elisabeth Welch
Dorothy West
Anna May Wong
Vera Zorina
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