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While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio
portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity
and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major
role his studio played for decades photographing ordinary people
and events in the Harlem community to the inclusion of his
photographs in the landmark Harlem On My Mind exhibition at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, Van Der Zee was a foundational
Black photographer whose work illustrates the shifting ways
photography serves as a constitutive force within Black life. In A
Nimble Arc, Emilie Boone considers Van Der Zee’s photographic
work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it
foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and
in the larger African diaspora. Boone argues that Van Der Zee’s
works exist at the crossroads of art and the vernacular,
challenging the distinction between canonical art photographs and
the kind of output common to commercial photography studios.
Boone’s account recasts our understanding not only of this
celebrated figure but of photography within the arc of quotidian
Black life.
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