Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten

$24.95 at Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Author: John Jacob, with contributions by Laura Augustin, Stacy Mince, and Virginia MecklenburgPublication Date: 2016Museum: SAAMPages: 112 pp.: Ill (49 black and white)ISBN: 978-0-937311-84-4Hardcover Author Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) began making portraits in 1932. Over the next three decades, he asked writers, musicians, athletes, politicians, and others to sit for him—many of them central figures in the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten features thirty-nine images of men…