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James VanDerZee, in full James Augustus Joseph VanDerZee, vanderzee also spelled VanDerZee, American photographer, whose portraits chronicled the Harlem Renaissance.
Explanation: Vanderzee made his first photograph as about in Lenox,mass. Bye 1906 he had moved with his father and brother to Harlem in Newyork city, where he worked as a waiter and elevator operator. In 1915 VanDerZee moved to Newark, N.J. ,where he took a job in a portrait studio, first as a darkroom assistant and then as a portraitist. He returned to Harlem the following year, setting up a portrait studio at a music conservatory.