Langston Hughes (Carl Van Vechten) cyrusprints William Berkson and Peter Enneson

William Berkson and Peter Enneson recover the notion of “readability” through a history of the collaboration between Matthew Luckiesh and the Linotype Company

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Langston Hughes (Carl Van Vechten) cyrusprints William Berkson and Peter EnnesonThis one is a threefer: writer and activist Langston Hughes, photographer Carl Van Vechten, and printer Richard Benson. Van Vechten made striking portraits, chronicling the writers, musicians, athletes, and politicians of his time. Most notably he captured the stars of the Harlem Renaissance. Heres Langston Hughes in 1939. Do we really need to tell you who Langston Hughes was? He was just one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Its