death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
havana , cuba april 7 , 1974 santiago de cuba , cuba december 5 , 1886 joaquín blez marcé
 joaquín blez marcé
joaquín blez marcé

joaquín blez marcé -lrb- december 5 , 1886 in santiago de cuba , cuba - april 7 , 1974 in havana , cuba -rrb- a cuban photographer .
blez studied between 1904 and 1907 at antonio desquirón 's photography workshop in santiago de cuba , and in 1922 attended the escuela laboratorio de fotografía .
he worked with rodolfo namias in milan , italy and in the later 1920s took lessons at the `` internationale lichbild ausstellung '' in berlin , germany .
in 1937 and 1938 he studied photographic technique and illumination in hollywood , california .
in 1939 blez presented his first personal exhibition , `` fotografías de joaquín blez '' , at an exposition at the palacio municipal in havana .
during 1987 his work was exhibited at museo nacional de bellas artes de la habana as `` crónica de un estudio .
fotografías de joaquín blez '' .
blez participated in many collective exhibitions , including the first `` salón nacional de fotografía '' by the asociación de pintores y escultores in havana and , in 1934 , at the `` international exposition on photography '' in berlin .
in 1947 he was invited to the `` pictorial photographers of america '' at the american museum of natural history in new york .
in 1983 his work featured in `` la fotografía en cuba .
exposición retrospectiva '' at the museo nacional de bellas artes de la habana .
in 1987 , he also participated in `` sicof ' 87 .
sezione culturale '' at the palazzo cisi in milan , and four years later in `` 1841-1991 : el tiempo y su imagen '' at fototeca de cuba , havana .
in 1998 his work featured in the `` cuba : 100 años de fotografía '' exhibition at the casa de américa in madrid , spain .
in 1923 blez received the gold medal at the `` gran certamen popular cubano industrial y mercantil '' from newspaper `` el mundo '' in havana .
his works can be found in permanent collections of `` fototeca de cuba '' and at the museo nacional de bellas artes de la habana .
