... American artists to use African subjects and designs in his painting. James Van Der Zee (1889-1983) was the most popular African-American photographer of that time. The son of Ulysses S. Grant's maid and butler, Van Der Zee opened his first studio in Harlem, New York City, in 1915. For 60 years, working in obscurity, he made a visual record of Harlem ... ...

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