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Black Jews, Harlem, from the James VanDerZee: Eighteen Photographs portfolio
  • VanDerZee, James
    Lenox, MA 1886 – Washington, D.C. 1983
  • Black Jews, Harlem, from the James VanDerZee: Eighteen Photographs portfolio
  • 1929, published 1974
  • gelatin silver print
  • 7 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (19.05 × 23.50 cm)
  • Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska Art Association, Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, N-423.13.1976
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Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, 08/09/2019 - 12/31/2019

Shortly after opening his first studio in 1917, James VanDerZee became the photographer of record for Harlem’s middle-class African Americans. The figures in Black Jews, Harlem stand closely together, as though posing for a family portrait. By commissioning a highly prominent artist such as VanDerZee to photograph them, the congregants express their desire to be respected among their community for their own religious beliefs.

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