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Title: Walker Evans: Cuba by Walker Evans, Andrei Codrescu, Judith Keller, J. Paul Getty Museum ISBN: 0-89236-617-6 Publisher: J Paul Getty Museum Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THEY DIDN'T SMILE AS MUCH BEFORE CASTRO!
Comment: Everybody knows the stereotype all too well of the joyous Cubans, with their 8-day Carnavals, incredible music and high culture. As someone who visits the island frequently (my wife lives there) the happiness of the people is so uplifting. The suicide rate is so much lower there. The murder rate is way below that of the US. It is a cocaine-free society because of all of the anti-cocaine canine patrols in the major cities. It's really a revelation being there. No drugs, no homelessness (the right to shelter is guaranteed under the Cuban constitution), a LOWER infant mortality rate than the United States, more doctors per capita than Canada, Sweden, and the US, a 97 per cent literacy rate.
This book however is a REAL eye-opener. I have only experienced Cuba after President Castro took office. I have only seen his good work in a country where EVERY schoolhouse now contains at least one Pentium III computer or better (don't you wish you could say the same about the USA?).
The fotos inside this book are unbelievable. Absolute abject shoeless, starvation poverty, photos taken from a pre-Castro Cuba. Looks like modern day Haiti, a country which has subjected to US policies from Papa Doc, to Baby Doc, to Aristide, all handpicked by the CIA and look what a mess that country is.
These fotos and the commentary inside are a revelation. If you EVER wondered why the people revolted and continue to adore President Castro, buy this book! These fotos don't lie. There is NO ONE living like this in present-day Cuba....
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible images from pre-revolutionary Cuba
Comment: Walker Evans was one of the greatest social realists and here he displays the same eye for understated emotion and quiet resistance that he showed in his famous WPA photographs in the American South. If you're familiar with the work of the visionary Brazilian Sebastião Salgado, Evans shows an earlier, perhaps gentler aspect of that vision of Latin America's poor.
The idea that photographing the poor in pre-revolutionary Cuba is "shameful" is in itself shameful. Did you want pictures of gangsters in nightclubs living the high life?
Rating: 1
Summary: Shameful
Comment: I bought this book as a present for my grandparents who are native Cubans. Cuba is a beautiful country with some of the most amazing art, food, music, people, and architecture. This book shows nothing of that Cuba. If you want to see photographs of people living in poverty, than this book is for you. If you want to see the real Cuba, look elsewhere. The photography itself is decent, but the subject matter is just shameful.
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Title: Cuba On the Verge: An Island in Transition by Terry McCoy, William Kennedy, Arthur Miller ISBN: 0821228021 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 20 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Walker Evans: Signs (Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum) by Walker Evans, Andrei Codrescu, J. Paul Getty Museum, Andrei Condrescu ISBN: 0892363762 Publisher: J Paul Getty Museum Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Inside Havana by Andrew Moore, Andy Grundberg, Eduardo Luis Rodriguez ISBN: 0811833437 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Walker Evans: Florida by Walker Evans, Robert Plunket ISBN: 0892365668 Publisher: Getty Trust Pubn Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Art Cuba: The New Generation by Holly Block ISBN: 0810957337 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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