Emilie Boone

A Nimble ARC

James Van Der Zee and Photography

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Produktbeschreibung

Emilie Boone considers James Van Der Zeeâ s photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and the larger African Diaspora. Booneâ s account recasts our understanding not only of this celebrated figure but of photography within the arc of quotidian Black life.

Produktdetails

• The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 251mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 802g
• ISBN-13: 9781478024903
• ISBN-10: 1478024909
• Artikelnr.: 67133736

Autorenporträt

Emilie Boone is Assistant Professor of Art History at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction. To Pivot Lightly: Adding the Vernacular to Art History’s
Sight Line  1
1. “More, Many More”: Van Der Zee’s World of Harlem Renaissance Studio
Photographers  29
2. The Newspaper and Ubiquity: 1924 Photographs as Moving Objects of the
African Diaspora  71
3. A Reframing of Value: Van Der Zee’s Restoration Work of the 1940s and
Beyond  113
4. Black Quotidian Experiences: Revisiting the Met’s Harlem on My Mind
Exhibition of 1969  153
Coda. To Nimbly Rewind: Fixing a New Constellation of Ideas circa 1994  199
Notes  213
Bibliography  241
Index  259