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James Van DerZee, the picture-takin' man / by Jim Haskins ; illustrated with Van Der Zee photos.
LIBRA - Rare TR140.V37 H37 1979 Banks copy
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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.
- Photographers--Biography.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Literature.
- Children's nonfiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : photographs ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Picture-takin' man.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, [1979]
- Summary:
- A biography of the black photographer who has received acclaim for his prints of Harlem.
- Contents:
- How it all began
- Growing up in Lenox
- Early experiments in photography
- Young man in New York
- The picture-takin' man
- James Van DerZee: artist and photographer
- The later years
- The "discovery of James Van DerZee.
- Notes:
- "Jacket design by Leslie Bauman."
- Includes index.
- Coretta Scott King Honor, author, 1980.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Haskins, James, 1941-2005. James Van DerZee, the picture-takin' man.
- ISBN:
- 0396076785
- 9780396076780
- OCLC:
- 4593222
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