Carl Van Vechten took a series of portraits of African Americans with gorgeous textiles. This one is of the singer Eartha Kitt.

Read the article about his exhibit at Yale: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/livingportraits.html

Carl Van Vechten took a series of portraits of African Americans with gorgeous textiles. This one is of the singer Eartha Kitt.

Read the article about his exhibit at Yale: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/livingportraits.html

(Source: 456aprilmayjune)

08/16/11 at 2:29pm
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    Eartha. I just can’t.
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