Humberto Mayol
Cienfuegos, Cuba

Cienfuegos, Cuba

© Humberto Mayol

Cienfuegos, Cuba
Cienfuegos, Cuba
CultureCuban
Titles
  • Cienfuegos, Cuba
  • from the series Los romanticos ángeles de la Tierra
  • from the series The Romantic Angels of the Earth
Date1992
PlaceCienfuegos, Cuba
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (21.6 × 31.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 3/4 in. (30.3 × 40 cm)
Credit LineGift of Clinton T. Willour in honor of Mike McLanahan
Object number94.765
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

This image by Humberto Mayol comes from a project on Cuban
identity begun by him, José Ney and Carlos Mayol.
Trained
as a journalist, Humberto Mayol consciously avoided the grand statements found
in 1960s photojournalism. Instead, his images are intimate, lyrical, and even
irreverent. His eye was drawn to the striking juxtapositions of daily life,
from domestic objects of worship to a stone bust on the floor, an echo of how monuments
were taken off their pedestals after the revolution.




ProvenanceClinton T. Willour, Houston; given to MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Title in black ink, lower left corner, margin.
bottom right below image in ink "H Mayol"
bottom left below image in ink "Cienfuegos, Cuba. 1992"

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