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Allen was born in New York, and by the late 1920s he built a photography studio in which many of the elites from the era was photographed.
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James Allen
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Among the figures he photographed includes Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Alain Locke, and Carl Van Vechten. His work was exhibited in Yale University Art Gallery in 1999. He was awarded a $50 commission prize by the Harmon Foundation for his work in photography as a Negro artist.
The show in 1933, however, was said to not be very representative of the work being done nationwide by Negro artists.
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