(Belafonte, Harry) Van Vechten, Carl

Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte, face uplifted in song, in "Almanac"

Seated in costume, frontal view. 33 x 24 cm. (13 x 9-3/8 inches), New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Reproduced (this very print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl van Vechten (1978). Atelier stamp on rear, and docketed in pencil with the name of the subject ("Harry Belafonte"), the date, and the number of the negative and print ("viii LL"). And with indication to printer for resizing.

Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed a role in the film Carmen Jones, and in the year Van Vechten photographed him in this series, Belafonte was starring in the Broadway musical "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", for which he won a Tony award

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