칼 반 베흐텐

소개

칼 반 베흐텐(Carl Van Vechten, 1880년 6월 17일~1964년 9월 21일)은 미국의 작가이자 예술사진 작가이다. 그는 할렘 르네상스를 후원하기도 했으며 미국의 작가인 거트루드 스타인의 유저(遺著) 관리자이기도 했다. 1926년에 쓴 소설 《흑인 천국》(Nigger Heaven)으로 유명하다. 또한 말년에, 유명인들의 초상 사진을 많이 찍은 것으로 유명하다.

Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult years, Van Vechten engaged in numerous affairs with other men during his lifetime.