“Part of what we wanted to do was to show people various sides of what Cuba is like now, because there is such a myth about not only its history but its current state of affairs,” - Judith Keller, the Getty’s senior curator of photographs.
A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now looks at three critical periods in the nation's history as witnessed by photographers before, during, and after the country's 1959 Revolution. The exhibition juxtaposes Walker Evans's 1933 images from the end of the Machado dictatorship with views by contemporary foreign photographers Virginia Beahan, Alex Harris, and Alexey Titarenko, who have explored Cuba since the withdrawal of Soviet support in the 1990s.
A third section bridging these two eras presents pictures by Cuban photographers who participated in the 1959 Revolution, including Alberto Korda, Perfecto Romero, and Osvaldo Salas.
The exhibition closes this Sunday October 2nd @ The Getty. Hours are Tuesday - Sunday 10 am to 5:30 pm (exceptf ro Saturday when it closes at 9 pm). The museum is free, parking is $15 per car (free after 5 pm on Saturday)
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Los Angeles, CA 90049
Los Angeles Times "Cuba Under the Lens at the Getty Museum" (May 27, 2011)
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