W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography

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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1946
		W. E. B. Du Bois and Carl Van Vechten came to know each other during the Harlem Renaissance. At that time, Du Bois was one of the leaders of the "New Negro Movement," and Van Vechten was a critic, writer, patron of art and literature created by African Americans, and the most prominent white person involved with the Harlem Renaissance. A few years later, Van Vechten developed his interest in photography and made portraits of many of the individuals he had known in the heady Harlem of the 1920s and 1930s. These photographs of Du Bois, made in 1946, are among those portraits. Photos by Carl Van Vechten Van Vechten Trust
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