Ele ganhou fama como escritor, e notoriedade também, por seu romance de 1926 Nigger Heaven . Em seus últimos anos, ele começou a fotografar e tirou muitos retratos de pessoas notáveis. Embora tenha sido casado com mulheres durante a maior parte de sua vida adulta, Van Vechten também se envolveu em vários casos homossexuais ao longo dela.[1] [2] [3]
Saul Mauriber, após uma fotografia de Salvador Dalí por Halsman (1944), por Van Vechten
Aos 40 anos, Van Vechten escreveu o livro Peter Whiffle , este romance foi reconhecido uma obra importante para a coleção da história do Harlem Renaissance .[4]
Music After the Great War (1915)
Music and Bad Manners (1916)
Interpreters and Interpretations (1917)
The Merry-Go-Round (1918)
The Music of Spain (1918)
In the Garret (1919)
The Tiger in the House (1920)
Lords of the Housetops (1921)
Peter Whiffle (1922)
The Blind Bow-Boy (1923)
The Tattooed Countess (1924)
Red (1925)
Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel (1925)
Excavations (1926)
Nigger Heaven (1926)
Spider Boy (1928)
Parties (1930)
Feathers (1930)
Sacred and Profane Memories (1932)
Póstumo
The Dance Writings of Carl Van Vechten (1974)
Antony Armstrong-Jones , 1958
Pierre Balmain and Ruth Ford , 1947
Albert C. Barnes , 1940
Féral Benga , 1937
Robert Hunt and Witter Bynner
Clare Boothe Luce , 1932
Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell , 1955
Gloria Davy , 1958
Mabel Dodge Luhan , 1934
John Van Druten , 1932
John Gielgud as
Richard II , 1936
Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale , 1952
Martha Graham and
Bertram Ross , 1961
Maurice Grosser , 1935
Nora Holt , 1955
Marilyn Horne and
Henry Lewis , 1961
José Iturbi , 1933
Victor Kraft , 1935
Hugh Laing , 1940
Francisco Moncion , 1947
Arthur Schwartz , 1933
Walter Slezak , 1934
William Grant Still , 1949
Paul Taylor , 1960
Pavel Tchelitchew , 1934
Antony Tudor , 1941
George Zoritch , 1942
Bird, Rudolph P. (ed.) (1997). Generations in Black and White: Photographs of Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection , University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0820319449
Kellner, Bruce (1968). Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-0808-8
White, Edward (2014). The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-20157-9
Obras de Carl Van Vechten (em inglês) no Projeto Gutenberg
Obras de ou sobre Carl van Vechten no Internet Archive
Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women , Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
Booknotes interview with Emily Bernard on Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925–1964 , April 22, 2001.
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library , Emory University: "Carl Van Vechten: American Portraitist" exhibit materials, 1992 (curated by Deborah Willis)
Carl Van Vechten theatre photographs, 1932-1943 , held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts