An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten Quotes
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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| Birth: | 17th June, 1880 |
| Death: | 21st December, 1964 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Photographer, Writer |
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Carl Van Vechten was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was an American writer and artistic photographer. He graduated from Washington High School in 1898, and later the University of Chicago in 1903. In 1906, he moved to New York City. He was hired as the assistant music critic at The New York Times. Several books of Van Vechten's essays on various subjects such as music and literature were published between 1915 and 1920. Between 1922 and 1930 Knopf published seven novels by Van Vechten, starting with Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works and ending with Parties. In the 1930s, Van Vechten began taking portrait photographs. The Beinecke Library also holds a collection titled "Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten's Color Photographs Of African Americans, 1939–1964", a collection of 1,884 color Kodachrome slides.
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