James Van Der Zee: A Portrait of Harlem

Step into almost any scene in Rebecca Hall’s Passing, a pitch-perfect recreation of Harlem at the height of its vaunted renaissance, and it would be unsurprising for the camera to zoom in on a framed photograph that was shot by James Van Der Zee.&nbs...

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