[Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Parade, Harlem, New York]

Marcus Garvey|James Van Der Zee

1924 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

During the 1920s and 1930s, Van Der Zee 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. Van Der Zee's career spanned more than seventy years, but his work first achieved widespread recognition only in 1969, when it was included in The Met's controversial exhibition, "Harlem on My Mind." He is now recognized as one of this country’s most distinctive photographic portraitists and an important chronicler the culture of the Harlem Renaissance.

Artist

Marcus Garvey|James Van Der Zee

Date

1924

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Funds from various donors, 2018