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This unique collection of never-before-seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn records Fidel Castro's historic entry into Havana four decades ago. In the introductory memoir, Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana on New Year's Eve, 1959. The photographs he returned with - of Fidel thronged by his countrymen and women as he stops to encourage them along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets - are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized that moment in Cuban history. With an introduction by Cuban culture minister Rafael Arriba de Acosta, interviews and photographs by Cuban master photographers Corrales, Korda, Figueroa, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1807301 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-01
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages