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James Van DerZee, the picture-takin' man / by Jim Haskins.
Fine Arts Library TR140.V37 H37 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983--Juvenile literature.
- Van Der Zee, James.
- Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983.
- African American photographers--New York (State)--New York--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American photographers.
- Photographers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Photographers.
- United States.
- New York (State)--New York.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Coretta Scott King Award.
- Local Subjects:
- Coretta Scott King Award.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Picture-takin' man
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, [1991]
- Summary:
- Based on interviews with Van DerZee, a photographer who has "seen more of American history and black American history than most of us ever will."--(Intro.).
- Contents:
- 1. How it all began
- 2. Growing up in Lenox
- 3. Early experiments in photography
- 4. Young man in New York
- 5. The picture-takin' man
- 6. James Van Derzee : artist and photographer
- 7. The later years
- 8. The "discovery" of James Van Derzee.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Dodd, Mead, ©1979.
- Includes index.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 1980
- Other Format:
- Online version: Haskins, James, 1941-2005. James Van DerZee.
- ISBN:
- 0865432600
- 9780865432604
- 0865432619
- 9780865432611
- OCLC:
- 24297012
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