Thelma Golden: Harlem, A Century in Images

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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As part of the celebrations for Black History Month, Elvis hosts Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, to talk about the book, Harlem: A Century in Images, which was produced in association with the Studio Museum. Golden, who was one of the subjects interviewed on Elvis' documentary, The Black List, wrote the introduction to the book.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.
0:14.5	Welcome to The Treatment.
0:15.7	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.7	You can also hear this show at KCRW.com.
0:19.3	What do Gordon Parks, James Vander Z, Cornell, Kappa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ouija, and Richard Avedon have in Common?
0:27.1	They can all be seen in the new book, Harlem, A Century and Images, Chief Curator and Director of the Studio Museum Harlem. Thelma, put the book together. She's also my guest today. It's a thrill to have her here. Thelma, thank you so much.
0:38.6	Thank you, Elvis, for having me here. Now, one of the things about the book is you curate this from the collection at the Studio Museum. And it feels really curated. We say before we started, because one of the things that you and I have talked about this before, and I should say for listeners,
0:54.8	if you've seen the blacklist, Thelma Golden,
0:56.8	is one of the highlights of the documented of the blacklist I work on.
1:00.0	And another reason I'm thrilled to have her here.
1:02.6	But most of the photographs in the book are black and white,
1:07.0	and there must be a reason for that.
1:09.1	Well, first, I'd like to say this book was a great pleasure for us to organize at the
1:14.3	studio museum, working with our publisher, Skira Rizoli.
1:17.9	These photographs actually aren't in our collection, but I'm glad you put that in the world
1:21.6	because it would be amazing for us to have this amazing group of all 200, over 200 of these
1:27.0	photographs.
1:27.5	I understand 221 photographs.
1:29.7	221. And yes, some of them are in our collection.
1:32.7	We are thrilled to be the custodian of the James Vandersi Archive.
1:36.4	We have works in our collection by a range of artists in this book, as well as many who are not who photographed Harlem.
1:43.3	But the reason the volume seems to lean
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