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Rare images by Constantino Arias, The Cuban Weegee, on view in New York
Opening September 16 at the Center for Cuban Studies Cuban Art Space, Constantino Arias - The Years Before: Havana 1945-1958 presents the work of a little-known witness to Cuban life before the Revolution.
Arias (1920-1991) was a freelance photographer, not on staff of a photo agency or newspaper. But he recorded, without artistic pretension, a spectrum of Cuban life in the 1940s and ’50s: social events, Cuban and foreign personalities, unidentified musicians, and student revolts during the period ranging from the 1940 Constitution to 1959, when Fidel Castro and his comrades came to power after defeating Batista. Moving quickly and anonymously, Arias became a chronicler of Cuban society in the years after World War II. He documented Havana's less glamorous side, in places like the Rumba Palace Bar, a club in the...
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Opening September 16 at the Center for Cuban Studies Cuban Art Space, Constantino Arias - The Years Before: Havana 1945-1958 presents the work of a little-known witness to Cuban life before the Revolution.
Arias (1920-1991) was a freelance photographer, not on staff of a photo agency or newspaper. But he recorded, without artistic pretension, a spectrum of Cuban life in the 1940s and ’50s: social events, Cuban and foreign personalities, unidentified musicians, and student revolts during the period ranging from the 1940 Constitution to 1959, when Fidel Castro and his comrades came to power after defeating Batista. Moving quickly and anonymously, Arias became a chronicler of Cuban society in the years after World War II. He documented Havana's less glamorous side, in places like the Rumba Palace Bar, a club in the...