
“A Revolutionary Project: Cuba From Walker Evans to Now”
Above all, this exhibition of 138 photographs is timely.
Above all, this exhibition of 138 photographs is timely. Against the tempered rage of Walker Evans’s photographs of Cuba under Machado’s dictatorship (commissioned for Carleton Beals’s 1933 exposé The Crime of Cuba), the curators have highlighted two contrasting historical affects: the exultation of the revolution, particularly in photographs of Castro, Guevara, and their comrades-in-arms rising, with heroic futurity, above the cameras of Perfecto Romero, Osvaldo Salas, and Alberto Korda; and the melancholy of geopolitical containment in the post-1991 “