Victor Kraft (photographer)
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Victor Hugo Etler Kraftsov, known as Victor Kraft, was an American professional photographer and lifelong friend and lover of Aaron Copland.
Victor Kraft, 1935, by Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten
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Carl Van Vechten 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 w
Victor Kraft (photographer)
…to Bemidji, Hollywood, Mexico and Cuba. A handsome man, with dark brown hair and blue-gray eyes, Kraft posed for George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton and Carl Van Vechten. The relationship between Copland and Kraft remained unknown to the general public until Copland's death in 1990. When Leonard Bernstein urged an aging…
Self-portrait (1934)
Van Vechten is depicted in Asbury Park South, 1920 painting by Jazz Age artist Florine Stettheimer. Amid a summer crowd in Asbury Park, the artist is under a green parasol, several of her friends are also recognizable. Van Vechten stands on the elevated structure left (black suit), Avery Hopwood (white suit, right side) talks with a woman in a yellow dress, and the Swiss painter Paul Thévanaz (red bathing suit) bends over a camera. Artist Marcel Duchamp (pink suit) walks with Van Vechten's wife, the actress
Van Vechten House and Studio, Manhattan, New York City, 2017
Saul Mauriber, after a photograph of Salvador Dalí by Philippe Halsman (1944), by Van Vechten