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Ferrer Palace, Cienfuegos, Cuba.
José Ferrer Sires, a wealthy Catalan living in Cienfuegos, had put every effort and part of his large fortune into the construction of the building. The work, which took only a year, was based on a design by the famous local architect Pablo Donato Carbonell, the author of works like Chalet de Valle –an elegant symbol of local eclecticism- and the majestic Tomás Acea Cemetery –a replica of the Parthenon.
The seasoned designer put the artistic flavor of Catalan modernism into the two-story mansion. The first floor was destined for the storage of goods, that is why it is bare of ornaments and more than six meters high. The second floor, on the other hand, displays a feast of marble, ironwork and glazed ceramic, which, together with the high quality and good taste of the ornamentation, have given a characteristic elegance to this corner of José Martí Park, the founding and administrative center of the city.
The palace crowns its roof with an elegant vantage point on its southeastern corner, which allowed the trader to “view all operations” at the nearby harbor and also see the entry of “any possibility of increasing the contents of his plentiful coffers” into the bay.
The building is now going through a process of restoration to turn it once again into a palace, but this time it will be Cienfuegos’ cultural palace.
Che Guevara or El Ché was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and a leader of Cuban and international guerrillas.
After his death, Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements worldwide.
Cuban poster designed by Fausino Pérez 1983, printed offset. From Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art Chronicle Books, 2003. I offer my apology to Lincoln Cushing for not previously including this information! He researched and wrote the book that these posters were shot from. His most informative and interesting site is www.docspopuli.org. I encourage everyone to track down the book as well as visit his site.
A special thank you to Lincoln Cushing from Alki1 for his efforts.
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I didn't realize exactly how much Cuba was stuck in the 50s until I went there for the first time and saw their cars. It was like being on a film set, only this was how people lived their day to day lives. I wanted to give this picture a vintage feeling for obvious reasons, and so so so tempted to turn it into b/w....but I had to do justice to the beautiful colours!
Havana Cuba - I shot this image at a barber shop in 2012 and came back a year later to find that the building had collapsed.
Havana's Old Town – the site where the city first took root in 1519 – is one of the historical highlights of Latin America, an architectural masterpiece where fastidiously preserved squares and grandiose palaces sit alongside a living, breathing urban community still emerging from the economic chaos of the 1990s.
Cuban car on the streets of Havana.
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