| Dates: | 1880 - 1964 | | Born: | US | | Active: | US |
Portrait photographer specializing in literary and theatrical figures in New York. The Library of Congress has a collection of 1,395 photographs taken between 1932 and 1964. The Smithsonian American Art Museum also has a significant collection including portraits from the portfolio 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes and the unrealized portfolio Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and AfterPreparing biographies
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| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website |
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• Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.235, Plate 54 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of Carl Van Vechten this is a useful starting point.]
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