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 805,512 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Carl Van Vechten is the 42nd most popular photographer (up from 43rd in 2019), the 2,911th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,977th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Carl Van Vechten has had the most page views in the with 101,983 views, followed by German (9,262), and Russian (6,378). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (67.45%), Romanian (64.85%), and Croatian (55.59%)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Carl Van Vechten ranks 42 out of 148. Before him are Jacques Henri Lartigue, Wilhelm Brasse, Peter Lindbergh, Andreas Gursky, Philippe Halsman, and Astrid Kirchherr. After him are Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, Oliviero Toscani, Hippolyte Bayard, Herb Ritts, and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Carl Van Vechten ranks 85. Before him are Leonard Woolley, Eric Lemming, Eric Campbell, Hermann von Keyserling, Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Lincoln Ellsworth. After him are Leonard Woolf, Gabriel Voisin, Christabel Pankhurst, Kōdō Sawaki, Zequinha de Abreu, and Mihail Sadoveanu. Among people deceased in 1964, Carl Van Vechten ranks 67. Before him are Flannery O'Connor, Jean Fautrier, Hermann Breith, Samuil Marshak, Flaminio Bertoni, and Wanda Wasilewska. After him are Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Julius Raab, Rauf Orbay, T. H. White, Khawaja Nazimuddin, and Firmin Lambot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Van Vechten ranks 2,911 out of 20,380. Before him are Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Mark Dacascos (1964), Delbert Mann (1920), Woody Strode (1914), Milton L. Humason (1891), and Mary Baker Eddy (1821). After him are Ellen Church (1904), King C. Gillette (1855), Dean Norris (1963), Karen Black (1939), Terence McKenna (1946), and William Levada (1936).

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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), Berenice Abbott (1898), Nan Goldin (1953), Edward Weston (1886), and Lewis Hine (1874). After him are Paul Strand (1890), Herb Ritts (1952), William Klein (1928), Ansel Adams (1902), Imogen Cunningham (1883), and Wilson Bentley (1865).

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