Identical Twins

James Van Der Zee

1924 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

During the 1920s and 1930s, VanDerZee enjoyed a reputation as Harlem's preeminent portrait photographer, catering to everyone from proud parents, shopkeepers, and newlyweds to such luminaries as Marcus Garvey, Bill Robinson, and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. VanDerZee's career spanned more than seventy years, but his work first achieved widespread recognition only in 1969, when it was included in the Metropolitan Museum's controversial exhibition, "Harlem on My Mind."

Artist

James Van Der Zee

Date

1924

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of James Van Der Zee Institute, 1970