These Rarely Seen Photographs Are a Who’s Who of the Harlem Renaissance Carl Van Vechten captured and archived images of most of the era’s great artists, musicians and thought leaders ...

For more that two decades, author Emily Bernard has been fascinated by Carl Van Vechten, a white man who played a seminal — and controversial — role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ...

How did Carl Van Vechten—a white man from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a latecomer to photography—become the premier portraitist of the Harlem Renaissance’s black luminaries? It took a slightly ...

One of the few white members of the Harlem Renaissance, Carl Van Vechten chronicled the changing times of the 1920s and ’30s in many ways: as a music and dance critic, as a novelist and later as ...

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the first cohesive cultural movements in African-American history, but white support was the grease that kept its wheels in motion. Enter Carl Van Vechten, critic ...

“Van Vechten,” writes Lynell George in her review of “Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance/A Portrait of Black & White” by Emily Bernard, “dedicated his life’s work to, as Hughes ...

Remember Me to Harlem:The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. Edited by Emily Bernard Knopf 356 pp.

Book review: 'The Tastemaker,' a new biography, suggests Carl Van Vechten pushed the nation's cultural values forward by making a virtue of racial and sexual diversity.

Lily-white Carl Van Vechten, born in lily-white Iowa in 1880, escaped Cedar Rapids when he was twenty and—after a string of extraordinarily lucky breaks—ended up in New York City, where he ...