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PHOTOGRAPHER

Carl Van Vechten

1880 - 1964

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Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Van Vechten has received more than 814,140 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Carl Van Vechten is the 43rd most popular photographer, the 2,984th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,119th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Photographer.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Carl Van Vechten ranks 43 out of 105. Before him are Jacques Henri Lartigue, Daidō Moriyama, Paul Strand, Hippolyte Bayard, Sabine Weiss, and Josef Sudek. After him are Astrid Kirchherr, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Oliviero Toscani, Marc Riboud, Gisèle Freund, and Cecil Beaton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Carl Van Vechten ranks 80. Before him are Hermann von Keyserling, Eric Campbell, Jan Kubelík, Arnold Gesell, Sholem Asch, and Marie Stopes. After him are Leon Rupnik, Waldemar Bonsels, Kōdō Sawaki, Archie Hahn, Mihail Sadoveanu, and Joseph Trumpeldor. Among people deceased in 1964, Carl Van Vechten ranks 71. Before him are Samuil Marshak, Franz Alexander, Julius Raab, Ben Hecht, Wanda Wasilewska, and Rauf Orbay. After him are T. H. White, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Pierre Monteux, Otto Ciliax, Maithili Sharan Gupt, and Firmin Lambot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Van Vechten ranks 2,984 out of 18,182. Before him are Christina Applegate (1971), Melissa Gilbert (1964), Alexandra Ripley (1934), J. Walter Christie (1865), Dorothy Gibson (1889), and Matthew Fox (1966). After him are John G. Thompson (1932), Harry Reems (1947), Jennifer Rush (1960), Murray Perahia (1947), Winfield Scott (1786), and Edward Bunker (1933).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Carl Van Vechten ranks 12. Before him are Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Irving Penn (1917), Lewis Hine (1874), Edward Weston (1886), Berenice Abbott (1898), and Paul Strand (1890). After him are Ansel Adams (1902), Nan Goldin (1953), Berry Berenson (1948), William Klein (1928), Herb Ritts (1952), and Imogen Cunningham (1883).

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