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        "tombstone": "Portrait of a Standing Woman, c. 1937\u201343. James van der Zee (American, 1886\u20131983). Gelatin silver print; image: 11.7 x 8.8 cm (4 5/8 x 3 7/16 in.); paper: 12 x 9.1 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, 1999.73",
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        "title": "Portrait of a Standing Woman",
        "creation_date": "c. 1937\u201343",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1943,
        "artists_tags": [
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            "Black American Artists"
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        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "gelatin silver print",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1900-1950",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Image: 11.7 x 8.8 cm (4 5/8 x 3 7/16 in.); Paper: 12 x 9.1 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)",
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        "did_you_know": "James Van Der Zee, himself an accomplished musician, set up his first photo studio in 1916 in his sister's music conservatory.",
        "description": "For more than 50 years, James Van Der Zee produced images that embody the spirit of Harlem. From the 1920s to the 1940s, he was the neighborhood's most popular and prolific photographer, his camera capturing everyone from ordinary citizens to celebrities. On location, he chronicled picnics, parades, families, church congregations, and the dead in their coffins. In the studio, Van Der Zee photographed glamorously dressed young people and dignified men and women posed before elaborate backdrops and surrounded by accessories that reinforced their associations with culture and wealth. The artist worked with a variety of techniques, including multiple negatives and hand coloring, to make artful photographs that set him apart from his more traditional, less aesthetically inclined competitors. Just as he often signed his name and date directly onto the negative, he would also selectively draw on it\u2014to smooth a complexion and touch up imperfections, or to add extra jewelry or smoke drifting from a cigarette\u2014whatever was necessary to emphasize the grace and dignity of his client, regardless of race, age, or social status.",
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        "creditline": "The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust",
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                "description": "James van der Zee (American, 1886\u20131983)",
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                "biography": "James VanDerZee American, 1886-1983 Famous for his images of Harlem and its inhabitants, James VanDerZee was born in Lenox, Massachusetts. During his youth, he took portraits of family members and friends, and after various jobs in Lenox and New York City began work in 1911 as a photographic assistant in the portrait studio run by Charles Gertz in Hahne's department store in Newark, New Jersey. From 1912-15 VanDerZee operated a portrait studio in the Toussaint Conservatory of Art and Music, established by his sister Jennie. Two years later VanDerZee opened a studio in Harlem and began making his memorable portraits. During the period of his greatest success, from the years of the Harlem Renaissance (1919-29) until World War II, he photographed the area's large African-American middle class, producing formal portraits of individuals, families, church and school groups, athletic organizations, women's clubs, fraternal organizations, weddings, funerals, and street scenes. He also photographed Harlem's celebrated artists, writers, singers, religious leaders, and politicians. In 1924 VanDerZee became official photographer for Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, documenting their conventions, rallies, and parades. He retired in the 1960s, but resumed photography for a brief period before his death. M.M.",
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        "accession_date": "1999-06-07T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1937,
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        "date_text": "c. 1937\u201343",
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