Van Vechten Photos of the Harlem Renaissance

As we prepare for this Wednesday's discussion of Edward White's The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, I am grateful to Ernie Raskauskas for alerting me to an article in the current issue of The Advocate: "Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance." The bio sketch of van Vechten is a bit anodyne, but the accompanying photographs he took of 10 African-American literati and glitterati--ranging from Alvin Ailey to Zora Neale Hurston--are riveting.  Check them out!