Description: James Van DerZee The Picture-Takin' Man SIGNED James Van DerZee Jim Haskins Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Picture-Takin' Man by Jim Haskins. Illustrated with James Van DerZee Photographs. New York. Dodd, Mead & Company. 1979. First edition. Hardcover. With the dust jacket. SIGNED by James Van DerZee on the half title page. Dated. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. Large octavo. This biographical study is based on several interviews with Van DerZee and features many of his photographs of Harlem social life from the 1920s on into the 1970s. Van DerZee began his life as a visual artist in 1920s Harlem photographing family gatherings, weddings, communions, graduations and ceremonies then he came into his own documenting Harlem's social and athletic clubs, its churches and the famous figures of the Harlem Renaissance. 256 pages, reproducing photographs by James Van DerZee. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. The boards are clean with light wear. Internally, unmarked. Tight binding. Clean and crisp images. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light wear and a few tears to edges and to the top and bottom of the spine as well as a few creases. Two taped repairs. Corners and edges scuffed and rubbed. Price clipped. Scattered light foxing to the fore edges. SIGNED James Van DerZee.
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Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Subject: Art & Photography
Topic: Photography: Monographs
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Signed
Origin: American
Printing Year: 1979
3rd Level Category: Monographs
Country of Manufacture: United States
