Research Catalog
Black life in Cuba
- Title
- Black life in Cuba / foto C. Arias.
- Author
- Arias, Constantino
- Publication
- [1948?]-1957.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Folder 2 | Picture | Use in library | Sc Photo Portfolio (Arias, C.) Folder 2 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Folder 1 | Picture | Use in library | Sc Photo Portfolio (Arias, C.) Folder 1 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Description
- 42 items (two folders); 24 x 19 cm and smaller.
- 42 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;
- Summary
- Collection depicts aspects of Afro-Cuban life before the 1959 revolution in Havana, Cuba, from the late-1940s to 1957. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of workers, women and children, the poor, students, hospital patients, entertainers, and other celebrities; as well as views of nightclub patrons and entertainers, slum tenements, labor and student demonstrations and rallies against the government of President Flugencio Batista, and a funeral procession. Among the individuals shown are Cuban musicians Chano Pozo, El Chori and Arsenio Rodríquez; songwriter Joseíto Fernández; singer-actress Rita Montaner; painter Wilfredo Lam; author Juan Marinello; boxers Kid Gavilán and Niño Valdés; labor leader Lázaro Peña; and African American singers Eartha Kitt and Josephine Baker.
- Subject
- Black people > Cuba
- Demonstrations > Cuba > Havana > 1940-1959
- Student movements > Cuba > Havana > 1950-1959
- Labor movement > Cuba
- Economic & social conditions > Cuba > 1940-1959
- Musicians > Cuba
- Dancers > Cuba
- Nightclubs > Cuba > Havana
- African American entertainers > Cuba > Havana
- Boxers (Sports) > Cuba
- Artists > Cuba
- Havana (Cuba)
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
- Group portraits – 1940-1959.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1940-1959.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- All photographs bear photographer's hand stamp on verso. Most items bear handwritten captions on verso.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Collection is restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography (note)
- Constantino Arias Miranda (1920-1991) was a Cuban freelance photographer who recorded the spectrum of Cuban life during the 1940s to 1950s. From 1941 to 1956, he worked as the "official" photographer at the Hotel Nacional taking pictures of tourists and celebrities. However, Arias's interest in social issues led him to document Cuba's poorer classes, as well as record student and political demonstrations for leftest newspapers. After the 1959 Revolution, he studied journalism, joined journalistic organizations, notably the International Organization of Journalists, and worked for the magazine Bohemia. Arias died in Cuba in 1991.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Arias, C.)
- OCLC
- 1015567281
- Author
- Arias, Constantino, photographer.
- Title
- Black life in Cuba / foto C. Arias.
- Production
- [1948?]-1957.
- Type of Content
- still image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Terms Of Use
- Collection is restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography
- Constantino Arias Miranda (1920-1991) was a Cuban freelance photographer who recorded the spectrum of Cuban life during the 1940s to 1950s. From 1941 to 1956, he worked as the "official" photographer at the Hotel Nacional taking pictures of tourists and celebrities. However, Arias's interest in social issues led him to document Cuba's poorer classes, as well as record student and political demonstrations for leftest newspapers. After the 1959 Revolution, he studied journalism, joined journalistic organizations, notably the International Organization of Journalists, and worked for the magazine Bohemia. Arias died in Cuba in 1991.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Arias, C.)