Haunting color photographs of Cuba in the 1990s: the sultry beaches and languid landscapes, the once-elegant but now decaying architecture, and the Cubans themselves -- isolated from the rest of the modern world
Tria Giovan (b. 1961) is a NYC based photographer: her work has been published in Aperture, Elle, Esquire, Harpers, Travel & Leisure, and Vogue among many other publications and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum, and The NY Public Library.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Travel photographs from Cuba in the 90s. She first traveled to Cuba in 1990 and subsequently returned 12 times over the next 6 years, shooting over 25,000 images. This book selects 120 of these images, most previously unpublished.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silvana Paternostro, is a noted Colombian-born journalist and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Vogue and Time, among other publications.
Cuba: The Elusive Island was published by Abrams in 1996 and is now out-of-print
Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. She returned 12 times over the next 6 years, shooting over 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba’s history, literature and politics, Giovan photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, landscapes and, most of all, the people, creating a compelling body of work that captured the subtleties and layered complexities of day-to-day life in Cuba. Twenty years after the publication of her first book of Cuban photographs, Cuba: The Elusive Island, Giovan has returned to these images, rediscovering in them a record of a Cuba that no longer exists. Tria Giovan: The Cuba Archive selects 120 of these images, many of which have never before been shown. Giovan reveals Cuba at a pivotal point in its fascinating history and bears witness to an inimitable, resilient and complex country and people.
Raised in the Caribbean, New York–based photographer Tria Giovan (born 1961) has published her work in Aperture, Esquire, Harpers, Travel & Leisure and Vogue, among many other publications. Her most recent monograph, Sand, Sea, Sky: The Beaches of Sagaponack, was published by Damiani in 2011. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library, among others. Photographs from The Cuba Archive will be featured in a 2017–18 exhibition on Cuba at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Tria Giovan: The Cuba Archive.'
FORMAT: Hbk, 11.5 x 8.25 in. / 168 pgs / 125 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 ISBN: 9788862085458 PUBLISHER: Damiani AVAILABLE: 11/7/2017 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Tria Giovan: The Cuba Archive Photography from 1990s Cuba
Published by Damiani. Text by Silvana Paternostro.
Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. She returned 12 times over the next 6 years, shooting over 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba’s history, literature and politics, Giovan photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, landscapes and, most of all, the people, creating a compelling body of work that captured the subtleties and layered complexities of day-to-day life in Cuba. Twenty years after the publication of her first book of Cuban photographs, Cuba: The Elusive Island, Giovan has returned to these images, rediscovering in them a record of a Cuba that no longer exists. Tria Giovan: The Cuba Archive selects 120 of these images, many of which have never before been shown. Giovan reveals Cuba at a pivotal point in its fascinating history and bears witness to an inimitable, resilient and complex country and people.
Raised in the Caribbean, New York–based photographer Tria Giovan (born 1961) has published her work in Aperture, Esquire, Harpers, Travel & Leisure and Vogue, among many other publications. Her most recent monograph, Sand, Sea, Sky: The Beaches of Sagaponack, was published by Damiani in 2011. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library, among others. Photographs from The Cuba Archive will be featured in a 2017–18 exhibition on Cuba at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles.
