| | TITLE | Michael Dweck: Habana Libre | IMPRINT | Damiani | PRICE US | $65.00 CDN $65.00 | ISBN | 9788862081849 TRADE | FORMAT | Hbk, 9.75 x 12.5 in., 290 pgs, multiple gatefolds, 21 color, 214 duotones. | CATALOG | FALL 2011 p. 177 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 9/30/2011 | STATUS | Active | STOCK | In stock |
| "After the Revolution, there was an enormous explosion of potential. This is the way the world works: there is always lots of potential, but you need a determined event in order for that potential to maximize and become reality. This is what happened with Cuba – Cuba created schools of dance, painting, sculpture, music, theatre – they were symbols that said the best way to be free is to be cultured.
The Cuban Revolution tried to take the culture to all the people on the island, from one end to the other. Today, on every corner of every street, you can find a person with artistic characteristics. And they’re not just artists.
The social transformation of Cuba made it possible for the poorest person to be able to graduate as a doctor or a musician. We have a large number of people who are well thought of in the world. Perhaps if we had had more resources, we would have developed more but, with what we had, much was done.
In Cuba, it is possible that sometimes you can’t find the tools to paint, for example, but the painter is there, so the painter with coffee can paint, or with dirt, or whatever, and this gives the work a new force or style."-Photographer Camilo Guevara, excerpted from Habana Libre | NEW PHOTOGRAPHY Edited by Frits Gierstberg, Rik Suermondt.
APERTURE By Eva Respini. Text by Johanna Burton. Interview by John Waters.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK Edited by Will Steacy. Introduction by Lyle Rexer.
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| | | Michael Dweck: Habana LibreInterviews by William Westbrook. Habana Libre is a stunning contemporary exploration of the privileged class in a classless society: a secret life within Cuba. Michael Dweck's photographs are exhilarating, sensual and provocative, with a sexy and hypnotic visual rhythm. This is a face of Cuba never before photographed, never reported in Western media and never acknowledged openly within Cuba itself. It is a socially connected world of glamorous models and keenly observant artists, filmmakers, musicians and writers captured in an elaborate dance of survival and success. Here too are surprising interviews with sons of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as well as many others who define the creative culture of Cuba and give it texture and substance. Habana Libre is not a media-fabricated Cuban postcard of crumbling mansions or old American cars, but a revealing and contemporary work by a visual artist adept at capturing the quiet gesture, the sensuous eye and the proud and provocative pose of that most romantic of contradictions: Cuba.
The photographs of Michael Dweck (born 1957) were first exhibited at Sotheby's, New York, in 2003, in the auction house's first solo exhibition for a living photographer. Dweck's first major photographic work, The End: Montauk, N.Y., published in 2004, blended documentary and staged photography to produce a compelling portrait of a beach community that exists as much in the realm of memory and desire as in the real world. His acclaimed 2008 volume Mermaids explored the female nude refracted in water. Dweck's work has become part of important international art collections and has been shown in major solo gallery exhibitions around the world.
Featured image: Javier and Januaria suffer a breakdown, both the car and the relationship. Habana, 2009. | Cory Reynolds | Date: 11/22/2011 On Tuesday, November 29th from 7:30-10:30pm, the Miami select shop BASE will host photographer Michael Dweck, signing copies of his new book, Habana Libre. Below is a selection of images from the book, along with Dweck's Foreword. continue to blog
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