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- Title: Combs, Jack Beckham. The Cubans
- Author : Chasqui
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 45 KB
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Combs, Jack Beckham. The Cubans. Foreword by Jennifer L. McCoy; essay by Julia E. Sweig. Santa Fe: Documentary Photography, 2010. Distributed by the University of Virginia Press. 191 pp. ISBN 9780-9842-4320-4 Combs's dossier is yet another stunning collection of photographs of Cuba and its people, joining a respectable bibliography of similar projects. Cast very much in a poetic vein, Combs softly colored images printed on high grade stock are accompanied by poetry and prose texts in both English and Spanish. Although there are the customary images of the island stunning landscape, fascinating historical built environments, and daily life street scenes, the emphasis is on the people. Combs own brief essay places emphasis on "emerging" Cubans and how in many cases his subjects were not even aware of being photographed, which presumably makes them authentic indices of Cuban society. McCoy's foreword underscores how Combs captures the "hardships caused by the Socialist experiments, the U.S. trade embargo, and the loss of Soviet subsidies" (11), while Sweig's brief essay underscores the transitional nature of life in Cuba, a period that stretches from the loss of Soviet subsidies to the present; one may understand that the terminus ad quem would be the lifting of the U.S.embargo. As is customary in these dossiers, Combs's camera captures three intersecting groups of images: 1) the decay of the Cuban (i.e., mostly Havana) infrastructure, as seen in decaying historical buildings, pavements in disrepair and the like, antique cars; 2) the stark simplicity and often improvised living quarters of families, the cheap quality of their clothing, the lack of anything that might be described as sophisticated personal ostentation; and 3) the much touted indomitable nature of the Cubans, as they go about their daily lives within, manifestly, very reduced straights. The only way in which one can really perceive these are Cubans, rather than inhabitants of other impoverished areas of Latin America, aside from patterns of body types, is that their backdrop is, at least for purposes of photographic composition, routinely that of the architectural splendor that once was Cuba before the Revolution.
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