James Van Der Zee
Biography
James Augustus Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) began working as a photographer in 1915, and by the following year had opened his photography studio on West 135th Street in Harlem. His images of Black New Yorkers, together with celebrities such as Langston Hughes, Joe Louis, and Marcus Garvey, form an indelible corpus of images of the Harlem Renaissance.
