Cuba

By Adam Kufeld

Book Overview

In this book, Adam Kufeld presents a photographic portrait of Cuba - one of the last remaining communist worlds. In 100 colour photographs - neon-lit night-life in Havana; alienated youth at an amusement arcade; men and women, young and old, queuing for food; youths showing their support for revolution by carrying posters of Fidel Castro; religious altars in commemoration of famous saints; men harvesting tobacco - he shows us that he has no illusions about Cuba. For him it is neither a workers' paradise nor a communist hell. Instead it is a land of contrasts and contradictions, of hope and resignation, of great creativity and corruption.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393035093
• ISBN13: 9780393035094
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

A Camera Lens Captures the Cuban World Wonderfully

The fall of communism affected Cuba much like the stock market crash of 1929 affected the USA. From relative prosperity prior 1990 to economic disaster. How would this affect the life and spirit of Cubans? This is what Adam Kufeld want to know, and see, thus in 1991, after a 15 year absence, he returned to Cuba with camera in hand and captured over 100 intriguing and beautiful photographs of today's Cuba. He has framed a kaleidoscope of life, children, old people, farm workers, doctors, sugar cane and tobacco, working men, beautiful women and of course Castro. The writing by Tom Miller lacks the inspiration and connection to Cuba of Kufeld's photos, but then who buys a coffee table book for the writing? Recommended.