Havana Rhythms Exhibition @ Lafayette CollegeExhibition on view at Lass Gallery, Skillman Library September 17, 2014 - January 15, 2016. Gallery Talk: Monday, September 21 at 12:00pm.
By: Lafayette College Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past - Berenice Abbott Over the past 80 years, Havana has drawn important photographers who explored this vibrant city through their distinct visions. In the 1930s, Walker Evans captured the graphic quality of men and women against white buildings plastered with advertisements. Henri Cartier-Bresson found the political “decisive moment” in his 1963 photographs of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara interacting with the people of Cuba. Abbot’s quotation speaks to the work of these photographers, who caught their subjects at a significant moment in time. In December 2014, as cold-war hostilities isolating Cuba were poised to come to a historic end, David Katzenstein photographed Havana’s sounds, colors, and energy. Unlike Evans’ and Cartier-Bresson’ Katzenstein captures the brilliant reds, distinctive blues and glittering greens that jump off the cars and objects that surround the people on the streets of Havana. These colors create a lyrical pattern in which the eye hears the sounds of the city’s soul: a sensuous, sweaty, fading song along the ocean. - text and curation by Richard Grosbard To view online: Havana Rhythms. To view Katzenstein's website: www.davidkatzenstein.com PRESS CONTACT – Diane Windham Shaw / shawd@lafayette.edu/ 610-330-5148 For inquiries regarding print sales and exhibitions contact contact@dashbeinc.com / 212 529-9460 Lass Gallery, Skillman Library – LAFAYETTE COLLEGE – 710 Sullivan Road, Easton, PA 18042 Media Contact Diane Windham Shaw shawd@lafayette.edu 610-330-5148 Photo: https://www.prlog.org/ End
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