![]() B&W and Sepia Photographs Small 4to 9" - 11" tall 85 pages. Corners slightly curled, light soil on edges, interior unmarked. Especially interesting is the interview with Van Der Zee about some specific photos in the back of the book. In addition to photograping Harlem's growing middle class, their weddings, celebrities and sports stars, and social life, he also specialzed in funerary portraits and other aspects of mourning rites, which were gathered into this book late in his life. ![]() This amazing collection of photographs by the great Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee is accompanied by poetry by Owen Dodson and text by Camille Billops (primarily an interview with Van Der Zee), with a Foreword by Toni Morrison. Photographs, poems, and text of the mourning rites in Harlem in the last century. Tear, chip, and some discoloring to jacket, price sticker on inside board, book in very good condition. Illustrated by James Van Der Zee (illustrator). The Harlem Book of the Dead by James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, and Camille Billops, foreword by Toni Morrison. ![]()
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