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Cuba: Singing with Bright Tears
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Cuba: Singing with Bright Tears Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Virginia Beahan (Photographer); Contribution by Jon Lee Anderson; Contribution by Pico Iyer


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"Virginia Beahan is one of our most accomplished and eloquent photographers. Her images remind us that the best landscapes have as much to tell us about history and culture as they do about topography. Looking at "CUBA singing with bright tears," I am heartened to see that it is still possible to make a perfect photograph."--Toby Jurovics, curator of photography, Smithsonian American Art Museum"CUBA"" singing with bright tears" depicts a country both tragic and beautiful, struggling beneath the weight of history. Larger-than-life images of revolutionary heroes Che Guevara and Jose Marti populate the island. The Bay of Pigs is sublime and treacherous; an atmospheric body of water rimmed with jagged black coral is the same unwelcoming shore that greeted invading CIA-trained Cuban exiles over forty-seven years ago. On a billboard, Fidel Castro reminds us that the US might invade again, and if so, he "will die fighting."Virginia Beahan's work falls within the tradition of great American photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Adams. Her luminous and detailed large-format photographs reveal a landscape imbued with nuanced stories of culture shaped by geography and human action. Cuba's long and complicated relationship with the United States is part of this unfolding drama.Virginia Beahan's photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco MoMA, the Getty Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Corcoran in Washington, DC. She has received grants from the Guggenheim and Mellon foundations. Beahan teaches photography at Dartmouth College. Her collaborative monograph, "No Ordinary Land," was published by Aperture in 1998.

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  • Title Cuba: Singing with Bright Tears
  • Author Virginia Beahan (Photographer); Contribution by Jon Lee Anderson; Contribution by Pico Iyer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 161
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pond Press, Brooklyn
  • Date 2009-04
  • ISBN 9780976195559 / 0976195550
  • Weight 3.8 lbs (1.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.5 x 13 x 1 in (29.21 x 33.02 x 2.54 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 770.922
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Pound Press, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Photographing the intersection between culture and nature for over 25 years, Virginia Beahan creates luminous and finely detailed images with an 8x10 view camera that describe the complexities of this relationship in diverse geographic settings. Her eight-year project in the waning years of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary Cuba resulted in a major 2009 monograph entitled CUBA singing with bright tears. The images depict a country both tragic and beautiful, struggling beneath the weight of history. Larger-than-life images of revolutionary heroes Che Guevara and José Martí populate the island. The Bay of Pigs is sublime and treacherous; an atmospheric body of water rimmed with jagged black coral is the same unwelcoming shore that greeted invading CIA-trained Cuban exiles over forty-seven years ago. On a billboard, Fidel Castro reminds us that the US might invade again, and if so, he “will die fighting.”… Read More
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