Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten

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Imprint: Bobbs-Merrill (Jan 01, 1977)
Fiction, Hardcover
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN: 9780672524271

    Description of Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten


    A compilation of photographs of famous actors, artists, dancers, musicians and writers taken by Van Vechten from the 1930s to the early 1960s. Includes portraits of Bessie Smith, Lena Horne, Billie Holliday, Laurence Olivier, Marlon Brando, Georgia O’Keefe, Henri Matisse and more. 172 pages (unpaginated); 164 full page b&w photographic plates; 9 x 12 inches.
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