The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
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120 pp. A series of photographic portraits featuring mainly writers and artists. Van Vechten was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein, and had the opportunity to meet and photograph many influential people. He was also notorious for his novel Nigger Heaven, and for numerous homosexual affairs during his marriages to several women.