Photographers Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten

Living place: Iowa

Birthday: 17-6-1880

Global rank: #81354

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Who is Photographers Carl Van Vechten?
Author, music critic, and portrait photographer who was one of the main organizers of the Harlem Renaissance. He is also Gertrude Stein's executor.
He was a patron of African-Americans, Harlem-based artists of the 1920s and also the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied at the University of Chicago and went on to work as a music critic for The New York Times.

Family life info

He was born into a wealthy and politically free family in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was married twice, although he was likely gay or bisexual.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Photographers Carl Van Vechten?
He photographed African-American blues singer Bessie Smith and her contemporaries.

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When was Photographers Carl Van Vechten born?
Carl Van Vechten was born in 17-6-1880, death year is , at the age of 144.
Where is Photographers Carl Van Vechten's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Carl Van Vechten was born in Iowa, . is a Photographers, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Carl Van Vechten's global rank is 81354 and whose rank is 221 in list of famous Photographers.
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Events in 1880 and 17-6

Birthday Carl Van Vechten (17-6) in history

  • Day 17-6 year 1775: The Battle of Bunker Hill took place during the siege of Boston at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Day 17-6 year 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
  • Day 17-6 year 1928: Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman.
  • Day 17-6 year 1944: The Republic of Iceland was established.
  • Day 17-6 year 1963: U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools.
  • Day 17-6 year 1972: Burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, DC, started the Watergate political scandal.
  • Day 17-6 year 1994: O. J. Simpson's slow-speed chase by the police, watched by millions on TV, ended in his arrest.
  • Day 17-6 year 2002: Australian scientists announced that they had "teleported" a laser beam—breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location.
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