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Exhibit | Carl Van Vechten: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

By Miss Rosen

Billie Holiday, March 1949 Billie Holiday’s session was a particularly difficult one for the photographer, taking him nearly two hours to “break her down.” After showing Holiday photos he had done of Bessie Smith, she opened up to him, both crying and laughing in the photos. Van Vechten considered his photographs of the iconic…
Miss Rosen
Miss Rosen

Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer, curator, and brand strategist. There is nothing she adores so much as photography and books. A small part of her wishes she had a proper library, like in the game of Clue. Then she could blaze and write soliloquies to her in-and-out-of-print loves.

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