ABOUT
Author, music critic, and portrait photographer who was one of the main promoters of the Harlem Renaissance. He was also the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.He served as a patron of African-American, Harlem-based artists of the 1920s and was also a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.He photographed the African-American blues singer Bessie Smith and many of her contemporaries.
BEFORE FAMEHe studied at the University of Chicago and went on to work as a music critic for The New York Times.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was born into an affluent and politically liberal family in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was married twice, although he was likely homosexual or bisexual.
Famous QuotesThere is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Photographer Carl Van Vechten were born on Thursday, in a leap year, birthstone is Pearl, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of , it is 168 days until Carl Van Vechten next birthday.