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Talk with Diana Diaz, Daughter of Cuban Photographer Alberto Korda

Alberto-Korda_Waiting-to-see-Fidel-Castro-outside-the-Statler-Hotel,-New-York.-Tuesday,-April-21,-1959Please join Diana Diaz, President of the Alberto Korda Estate and daughter of Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, for a talk on her late father’s work. Over 60 black-and-white photographs by Korda, taken during his 1959 and 1960 visits to the US with Fidel Castro, will be on display, many of which have never been seen or exhibited before.

This timely exhibition, curated following the recent thaw in US-Cuba foreign relations and marking the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s televised Statement, offers an historical insight into a time fraught with tension, yet hallmarked by the spellbound attention of the crowd, impressing America’s long-held fascination with Cuba and its struggle for freedom.

Alberto Korda (1928–2001), best known for his image of Che Guevera, was the accompanying photographer to Fidel Castro for ten years, the auteur of several of the most iconic images of the Cuban Revolution, and the most versatile Cuban photographer of his generation. Born the son of a railway worker and a housewife in Havana, Cuba, Alberto Korda went on to photograph such important historical figures and luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and was awarded the Cuban ”Palma de Plata” in 1959 and the National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba in 1994.  The work of Alberto Korda may be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Center for Cuban Studies, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; The International Art Heritage Foundation; Maison de la Culture de la Seine Saint-Denis, Paris, France; and Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, among others.











When: Mon., Dec. 21, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Where: Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
560 Broadway #603
212-966-0796
Price: Free
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Alberto-Korda_Waiting-to-see-Fidel-Castro-outside-the-Statler-Hotel,-New-York.-Tuesday,-April-21,-1959Please join Diana Diaz, President of the Alberto Korda Estate and daughter of Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, for a talk on her late father’s work. Over 60 black-and-white photographs by Korda, taken during his 1959 and 1960 visits to the US with Fidel Castro, will be on display, many of which have never been seen or exhibited before.

This timely exhibition, curated following the recent thaw in US-Cuba foreign relations and marking the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s televised Statement, offers an historical insight into a time fraught with tension, yet hallmarked by the spellbound attention of the crowd, impressing America’s long-held fascination with Cuba and its struggle for freedom.

Alberto Korda (1928–2001), best known for his image of Che Guevera, was the accompanying photographer to Fidel Castro for ten years, the auteur of several of the most iconic images of the Cuban Revolution, and the most versatile Cuban photographer of his generation. Born the son of a railway worker and a housewife in Havana, Cuba, Alberto Korda went on to photograph such important historical figures and luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and was awarded the Cuban ”Palma de Plata” in 1959 and the National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba in 1994.  The work of Alberto Korda may be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Center for Cuban Studies, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; The International Art Heritage Foundation; Maison de la Culture de la Seine Saint-Denis, Paris, France; and Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico, among others.

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