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We asked June Shin to make a triptych with a rainbow theme—and we left it at that

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Langston Hughes (Carl Van Vechten) cyrusprints Watch a little movie »This 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