Cuban Schoolboys, 2008

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  Colin Corneau

• Mar 24, 2008

This was done on 16x20, I just took a digital photograph of the print, so please forgive the low-tech digitalization (not to mention the wrinkles in the fibre base paper).

 

• Dave Wooten

• Mar 25, 2008

Nice one! Personally, I like it better than the "Arbus".

 

• Uhner

• Mar 25, 2008

I think it is a good image. I really like the composition and the interplay between the boys and the Cuban revolutionary iconography.

 

• ctscanner

• Mar 25, 2008

Absent the Che Guevara poster in the background, these could be a couple of boys from almost anywhere. In my mind, that is the charm of the photograph.

George

 

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  Colin Corneau

• Mar 26, 2008

That's a good point, ctscanner -- Cuba is really amazing in the variety of faces and races there. In the same class, there were these blonde, fair boys and a black (and I mean black) girl, with almost every tint in between. I'd heard of this but it's amazing to see for oneself. Thank you for the comments, all.

 

• Gearoidmuar

• Jan 4, 2010

That photograph of Guevara was made famous by an Irish Graphic Artist called FitzPatrick, as far as I can remember, who turned it into a graphic representation. It's a great photo, but the chap was not a nice man, to say the least. I think that his mother was Irish, or of Irish descent.