Cuba: A View from Outside

Janis Lewin, January 1998

About the Exhibit

Hundreds of photographers living in the United States have found Cuba to be a seductive enchantress — from Walker Evans in the 1930’s and Lee Lockwood in the 1960’s to the dozens who today wend their way through the maze of U.S. regulations to capture on film this bewitching island. Dozens of photo books on Cuba have been published in recent years, among them Adam Kufeld’s Cuba (W. W. Norton), Joshua Greene’s Cars of Cuba (Harry Abrams), Gianfranco Gorgoni’s Cuba Amor and Cubano 100% (Charta), Nancy Stout’s Havana and Habanos (Rizzoli), Andrea Brizzi’s (text by Rachel Carley) Cuba: 400 Years of Architectural Heritage (Whitney Museum).

The photographers in this exhibit include both those who have visited the island only once or twice and those who return often to Cuba and who have amassed a substantial body of work about the island. The photographs come from the Center for Cuban Studies Art Space archives and have been donated by the photographers.

The photographers include Andrea Brizzi, Lorenzo De Stefano, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Janis Lewin, Seymour Rubin and others. The exhibit consists of 50 framed photographs and can be rented for two weeks for $2,000, three weeks for $3,000 and four weeks for $4,000. Identifying captions and biographies of the photographers are included. The cost includes round-trip shipping from New York City and insurance en route. (The renting institution is responsible for insurance on the show while on exhibit.)

For further information: Sandra Levinson (212) 242-0559.