Alejandro González
2:57 am, 24 de dic de 2005, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba

2:57 am, 24 de dic de 2005, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba

© 2005 Alejandro González Méndez

2:57 am, 24 de dic de 2005, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba
2:57 am, 24 de dic de 2005, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba
CultureCuban
Titles
  • 2:57 am, 24 de dic de 2005, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba
  • from the series AM–PM
Date2005
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 21 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (54 × 54 cm)
Sheet: 23 5/8 × 23 5/8 in. (60 × 60 cm)
Credit LineThe Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2022.525
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

“In 2005, I started getting interested in social topics and people,” Alejandro González has said. “I was seeing what was happening in society, and I was feeling that I was not participating.” A night creature himself at age 31, Alejandro González began with a candid look at youth culture in the wee hours of the morning along Havana’s 23rd Street, a hub of nightlife. Using a Rolleiflex camera, with its square format and characteristically low vantage point, his method was straightforward, and his pictures—almost always made with the permission of his subjects—felt undeniably authentic.

 

“En 2005, empecé a interesarme por los temas sociales y las personas”, comenta Alejandro González. “Observaba lo que sucedía en la sociedad y sentía que no participaba”. A los 31 años, siendo él mismo un noctámbulo, comenzó a documentar, durante la madrugada, la cultura juvenil a lo largo de la vibrante calle 23 de La Habana. Usando una cámara Rolleiflex, con su formato cuadrado y su característico ángulo bajo, operaba sin rodeos. Sus fotografías —casi siempre tomadas con el permiso de los sujetos— resultan innegablemente auténticas.


ProvenanceThe artist, Havana, Cuba; purchased by Madeleine P. Plonsker, Glencoe, Illinois, 2016; purchased by MFAH, 2022.

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