Harlem – Auction Finds

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I’m not much of a comics-book reader, but I’ll flip through them if the cover grabs me. I found one comic book among a lot of Supergirl, Rom and Mask recently that did. In the…

May 5, 2010

sherry

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‘Sweet Flypaper’ of Hughes & DeCarava

Posted in Art, and Books

I had thumbed quickly through the two long rows of African American-themed books on a table at auction this week, but nothing struck me. Until another auction-goer mentioned that he had set aside a copy…

February 25, 2010

sherry

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James Van Der Zee’s photos of Harlem

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No one quite captured the culture, the love and the beauty of the people of Harlem like photographer James Van Der Zee. We all can conjure in our minds his iconic 1932 photo of a…

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