Harlem Postcards Summer 2010
07.15-10.24.2010
![](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/GLADYSfinal_0_2023-09-14-134049_nokk.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
![Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Born 1977, Huntington, WV
Lives and works in New York, NY
She was married to a white woman
Gladys Bentley, 1907–1960, 2010](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/GLADYSfinal.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
GB meets GB
Looking for traces of queer histories in Harlem, I stumbled upon the men's bathhouse, tales of speakeasies such as the Clam House (where gender-bending performers were the norm) and finally Gladys Bentley. She immediately caught my eye—a Black woman in a tux. The year was 1920-something. The Clam House was on 133rd Street between Lenox and Seventh avenues. Gladys was writing and singing obscene versions of popular songs there.
![Sanford Biggers
Born 1970, Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in New York, NY
142nd St. Mosaic, 2010](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/mosaic_0.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
On the way from the studio, from below I saw above.
I made this image on February 14—Valentine’s Day. My godmother and I were in a cab on 103rd Street driving along West End Avenue to 34th Street. I was aiming my camera out the window, catching buildings, streetlights, billboards—anything you might see from a car in Harlem. When the cab suddenly came to a stop—as yellow cabs often do—I accidently snapped a shot of the inside of the cab. When editing my work, I realized the pictures I took inside the taxi were pretty decent, so I decided to submit this one for Harlem Postcards.
![Hew Locke
Born 1959, Edinburgh, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Triffids, 2010](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/Locke_HPCSummer10_0.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
I am particularly fascinated by Harlem's hand-painted signs. This image was taken from a diner on 125th Street. The sheet of plywood is a quick repair job and the flowers are painted onto the window. I wanted to turn a simple reflected scene of people waiting for a bus into something strange and magical, something happening below the surface.
Harlem Postcards Summer 2010
07.15-10.24.2010
![](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/GLADYSfinal_0_2023-09-14-134049_nokk.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
![Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Born 1977, Huntington, WV
Lives and works in New York, NY
She was married to a white woman
Gladys Bentley, 1907–1960, 2010](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/GLADYSfinal.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
GB meets GB
Looking for traces of queer histories in Harlem, I stumbled upon the men's bathhouse, tales of speakeasies such as the Clam House (where gender-bending performers were the norm) and finally Gladys Bentley. She immediately caught my eye—a Black woman in a tux. The year was 1920-something. The Clam House was on 133rd Street between Lenox and Seventh avenues. Gladys was writing and singing obscene versions of popular songs there.
![Sanford Biggers
Born 1970, Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in New York, NY
142nd St. Mosaic, 2010](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/mosaic_0.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
On the way from the studio, from below I saw above.
I made this image on February 14—Valentine’s Day. My godmother and I were in a cab on 103rd Street driving along West End Avenue to 34th Street. I was aiming my camera out the window, catching buildings, streetlights, billboards—anything you might see from a car in Harlem. When the cab suddenly came to a stop—as yellow cabs often do—I accidently snapped a shot of the inside of the cab. When editing my work, I realized the pictures I took inside the taxi were pretty decent, so I decided to submit this one for Harlem Postcards.
![Hew Locke
Born 1959, Edinburgh, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Triffids, 2010](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/Locke_HPCSummer10_0.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
I am particularly fascinated by Harlem's hand-painted signs. This image was taken from a diner on 125th Street. The sheet of plywood is a quick repair job and the flowers are painted onto the window. I wanted to turn a simple reflected scene of people waiting for a bus into something strange and magical, something happening below the surface.