James Van Der Zee (1886–1983) would have two careers in photography: locally, as Harlem’s photographer during the 1920s and 30s, and nationally, when his works from the same decades were featured in the exhibition ‘Harlem on My Mind’ at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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