The light in Cuban eyes
Subtitle: Lake Forest College's Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography : highlighting the work of 50 photographers who have been working in the special period, since the Soviets left Cuba
Contributors: Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography
Publisher: Lake Forest College Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781941423905
Subjects: Photographers; Photography; Artistic Photography; Pictorial works
Description: "In 2002, art collector and philanthropist Madeleine P. Plonsker began traveling to Cuba to uncover Havana's thriving art scene. The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College's Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography focuses on Cuban photography between 1992-2012. These years cover Cuba's "Special Period," a desperate time resulting from the withdrawal of financial support from the former Soviet Union that continues to present day. The 50 artists who comprise this bilingual book--including Juan Carlos Alom, Adrián Fernández Milanés, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Cirenaica Moreira, and Glenda León--shoot their worlds in styles ranging from fabulist to gritty. This is world-class work, yet the artists are often known only to the small population of collectors fortunate enough to have traveled to this tightly restricted country, or through art world reputations that have only recently started to expand beyond the island. Lake Forest College's Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography is composed of 170 pieces; The Light in Cuban Eyes is the first North American publication with support from the Cuban Ministry of Culture and Fototeca de Cuba, Cuba's repository of photography comparable in function to the Smithsonian Photography Department in Washington, D.C." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: In Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Introductory essay / Ensayo introductory; title: A collector's journey : toward the light in Cuban eyes = El viaje de un coleccionista : la luz en los ojos de Cuba / Madeleine P. Plonsker; title: The artists and their art/ Los artistasysu arte; title: Essays / Ensayos; title: Metaphor in photography = La metáfora en la fotografía / Pedro Abascal; title: Notes on the difficulty of collecting contemporary Cuban photography = Apuntes sobre la dificultad de coleccionar fotografía contemporánea cubana / Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde; title: The birth of contemporary Cuban photography = El nacimiento de la fotografía cubana contemporánea / Michael Weinstein; title: Looking in : an outsider's view of the world of Cuban photography = Una mirada adentro : una perspectiva de un ajeno sobre el mundo de la fotografía cubano / James Quine; title: Biographies/Biografías; title: The artists and their art (Illustrated works, artists' statements, and the collectors comments on individual works).  Pedro Abascal ; Pavel Acosta ; Juan Carlos Alom ; Jorge Luis Álvarez Pupo ; Lidzie Alvisa ; Ramsés H. Batista ; Raúl Cañibano ; Arien Chang Castán ; María Cienfuegos ; Mario Díaz ; Felipe Dulzaides ; Reinaldo Echemendía Cid ; Ricardo Elías ; Adrián Fernández Milanés ; Adonis Flores ; José Manuel Fors ; Eduardo Javier García García ; Jorge V. Gavilondo ; Antonio Gómez Margolles ; Alejandro González ; Ricardo Miguel Hernández ; Eduardo Hernández Santos ; Alicia Leal ; Glenda León ; Liudmila + Nelson ; Donis Dayán Llago ; Mabel Llevat Soy ; Kadir López Nieves ; José Julian Martí ; Néstor Martí ; Cirenaica Moreira ; Carlos Otero ; René Peña ; Alejandro Pérez Álvarez ; Marta María Pérez Bravo ; Yasser Piña Peña ; Alain Pino Hernández ; Michel Pou Díaz ; Leysis Quesada Vera ; Lisandra Ramírez Bernal ; Alfredo Ramos ; Sandra Ramos ; René Rodríguez Hernández ; Enrique Rottenberg ; Glenda Salazar ; Alfredo Sarabia Jr. ; Esterio Segura ; Lissette Solórzano ; Rachel Valdés Camejo ; Harold Vázquez Ley.