Identical Twins by James Van der Zee in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Identical Twins

James Van Der Zee
(American, Lenox, Massachusetts 1886–1983 New York)

Date: 1924

Medium: Gelatin silver print

Dimensions: 18.7 x 23.8 cm (7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.)

Classification: Photographs

Credit Line: Gift of James Van DerZee Institute, 1970

Accession Number: 1970.539.2

Description:

During the 1920s and 1930s, Van Der Zee enjoyed a reputation as Harlem's preeminent portrait photographer, catering to everyone from proud parents, shopkeepers, and newlyweds to such luminaries as Marcus Garvey, Bill Robinson, and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. Van Der Zee's career spanned more than seventy years, but his work first achieved widespread recognition only in 1969, when it was included in the Metropolitan Museum's controversial exhibition, "Harlem on My Mind."

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/259623