CUBA: singing with bright tears
by Virginia Beahan; Contributor Jon Lee Anderson/Pico Iyer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0976195550
- ISBN 13
- 9780976195559
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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.” 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. Clean, bright copy. Record # 380764
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 380764
- Title
- CUBA: singing with bright tears
- Author
- Virginia Beahan; Contributor Jon Lee Anderson/Pico Iyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0976195550
- ISBN 13
- 9780976195559
- Publisher
- Pound Press
- Place of Publication
- Brooklyn
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Photography, Landscape, , .
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- Photography;
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