Harlem Postcards
23 Jan - 01 May 2018
Gordon Parks
Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1963, 1963
Archival pigment print
Courtesy The Gordon Parks Foundation
Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1963, 1963
Archival pigment print
Courtesy The Gordon Parks Foundation
HARLEM POSTCARDS
Winter 2018
23 January – 1 May 2018
Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner, at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, serve as popular postcard images that represent significant places and moments in this community. Today, Harlem continues to evolve as a center of history and culture. Every day, residents witness its changes and tourists and visitors from all over the world experience its energy. Harlem Postcards, an ongoing project, invites artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, and creative production.
In partnership with Carnegie Hall’s The ’60s: The Years that Changed America festival, The Studio Museum in Harlem presents four images that evoke the dynamic social and cultural climate of the 1960s. Representing intimate and dynamic perspectives of Harlem, the images reflect each artist’s oeuvre with an idiosyncratic snapshot taken in, or representative of, this historic locale and pivotal decade.
This season we are pleased to feature postcard images created by Diedra Harris-Kelley, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks, and Andre Wagner. Each photograph has been reproduced as a limited-edition postcard available free to visitors at Carnegie Hall's Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall through March 24, 2018, and at the Studio Museum's Visitor Center through early summer 2018.
Winter 2018
23 January – 1 May 2018
Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner, at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, serve as popular postcard images that represent significant places and moments in this community. Today, Harlem continues to evolve as a center of history and culture. Every day, residents witness its changes and tourists and visitors from all over the world experience its energy. Harlem Postcards, an ongoing project, invites artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, and creative production.
In partnership with Carnegie Hall’s The ’60s: The Years that Changed America festival, The Studio Museum in Harlem presents four images that evoke the dynamic social and cultural climate of the 1960s. Representing intimate and dynamic perspectives of Harlem, the images reflect each artist’s oeuvre with an idiosyncratic snapshot taken in, or representative of, this historic locale and pivotal decade.
This season we are pleased to feature postcard images created by Diedra Harris-Kelley, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks, and Andre Wagner. Each photograph has been reproduced as a limited-edition postcard available free to visitors at Carnegie Hall's Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall through March 24, 2018, and at the Studio Museum's Visitor Center through early summer 2018.