{"product_id":"generations-in-black-and-white-photographs-from-the-james-weldon-johnson-memorial-collection-9780820346175","title":"Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades--primarily as gifts to his subjects, such luminaries as W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, and James Earl Jones. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe photographs Rudolph P. Byrd has selected for this volume come from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters, which Van Vechten established at Yale University. Byrd has arranged the images chronologically, according to the time at which each subject emerged as a vital presence in African American tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComplementing the photographs are a substantial introduction by Byrd, biographical sketches of each subject, and poems by the noted writer Michael S. Harper. The result is a volume of beauty and power, a record of black excellence that will engage and inform new generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rudolph P. Byrd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820346175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2015 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolph P. Byrd (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e RUDOLPH P. BYRD (1953-2011) was a professor of African American Literature and director of African American Studies, Emory University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Van Vechten (Photographer) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CARL VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40195961290867,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b5c32fd3-40eb-47d0-8215-ede0a932097b.jpg?v=1655992983","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/generations-in-black-and-white-photographs-from-the-james-weldon-johnson-memorial-collection-9780820346175","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}