Havana: The Revolutionary Moment
Posted August 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Although I'm deeply critical of the Cuban Revolution, this upcoming exhibition looks like it could be inciteful and interesting. I'm hoping once you get passed the photos of Fidel and Che, there might be some images of the Cuban people at large struggling against Batista, and particularly representations of the urban struggle, which although far more democratic and mass-based, is always eclipsed (if not erased) by the supposedly more "heroic" fight in the mountains.
Havana: The Revolutionary Moment
Photographs by Burt Glinn
Umbrage Gallery
111 Front St., Suite 208
Brooklyn, NY 11201
September 10-October 31, 2008
Opening, 6-8pm, September 10.
Havana: The Revolutionary Moment presents a unique collection of never-before-seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, recording Fidel Castro’s historic entry into Havana. In the introductory memoir, Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana on New Year’s Eve, 1959. The photographs he returned with—of Fidel thronged by his countrymen and women as he stopped to encourage them along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women alike taking up arms in the streets—are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized that moment in Cuban history. The show opened to acclaim at the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana in January 2001 and will travel to Madrid, London, Paris, Milan, and other venues, before returning to the United States. The domestic tour is organized in association with the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona, Florida.
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