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[Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald] – Vintage Photo Print

[Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald], 1937 June 4. — historic photograph
[Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald], 1937 June 4.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Carl Van Vechten made this gelatin silver portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald on June 4, 1937, a few years before the novelist's death in 1940. Van Vechten was a novelist and critic who became one of the most prolific portrait photographers of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary world of the 1920s and 1930s, and his sitters included many of the writers and performers of the day. The print is part of his celebrity portrait series at the Library of Congress, which was donated by his estate in 1966. By the time of this sitting, Fitzgerald was living in Hollywood and working as a screenwriter, and his reputation was in a quieter phase than during the Jazz Age.

Created / published1937 June 4.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs.
NotesTitle derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXIV K 24. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a LOT which in turn forms part of the Carl Van Vechten photograph collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott),--1896-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,125 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159636

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