Burt Glinn, Havana, the Revolutionary Moment

Havana, the Revolutionary Moment

Burt Glinn

Publisher
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Year
2001
ISBN
9781899235193
Specifications
Hardcover with jacket
29.8 x 22 cm
128 pages
83 duotone plates
Essays by Rafael Acosta de Arriba and Nan Richardson
Spanish / English

Havana: The Revolutionary Moment presents a unique collection of rarely seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, recording Castro’s historic entry into Havana in January 1959. In his 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. This snap decision made Glinn one of three western photographers (the other two are no longer alive) to accompany Castro at that time, and the images have been virtually unseen since then. The photographs—of Fidel thronged by his fellow Cubans along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets—are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized that moment in Cuban history. The entire book, including essays by Cuban Minister of Plastic Arts Rafael Acosta de Arriba and editor Nan Richardson, as well as Burt Glinn’s “The Day Havana Fell,” is bilingual in Spanish and English.

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