James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, Camille Billops – The Harlem Book of the Dead

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James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, Camille Billops – The Harlem Book of the DeadOriginally published in 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead is a haunting and beautiful document of Black funerary traditions in Harlem, which captures the communitys mourning rituals through the lens of one of the Harlem Renaissances most celebrated photographers. These portraits are complimented and captioned by poems from Owen Dodson; a wide ranging interview with Van Der Zee by the sculptor and filmmaker Camille Billops, who conceptualised and

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