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Cuba, 1930-1958: Photographs by Dr. Robert Machado
9/12/1998 - 11/15/1998

 CUBA, 1930-1958 is a photographic survey of life in Cuba as captured through the lens of Dr. Robert Machado (1905 - 1979). Although formally trained as a physician, Machado was a talented photographer and award-winning cinematographer. This treasure-trove of highly engaging images depicts aspects of pre-revolutionary Cuban life during the mid-twentieth century. Through Machado's lens, we see such evocative images as a grocer's shop in Havana, a broom peddler on the street, ox carts in the Vinales Valley, the Hanabanilla Falls, boxers at El Palacio de los Deportes, a baseball game and sponge fishermen with starfish. After Machado's death, 700 negatives were found in his house by a visiting relative, Silvia Lizama, who is also a photographer and who printed these images from the negatives. This exhibition was organized by the Norton, from the 100 images which Silvia Lizama chose to print




 

   

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