Max Orlando
Untitled, La Habana

Untitled, La Habana
Untitled, La Habana
Untitled, La Habana
ArtistCuban, born 1957
CultureCuban
Titles
  • Untitled, La Habana
Date1993
PlaceCuba
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 15/16 × 16 1/4 in. (27.8 × 41.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 18 13/16 in. (34.8 × 47.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number94.786
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

The Malecón
is an iconic seafront promenade stretching along Havana’s coast, at once a
passage through the city and a barrier to the Straits of Florida. The two
figures seen here carry large inner tubes. The year after Max Orlando
Baños took this photograph, tens of thousands of Cubans set out
to sea in makeshift vessels in what became known as the balsero (rafter) crisis.





El Malecón, paseo panorámico a la orilla
del mar que se extiende por la costa de La Habana, es, al mismo tiempo, un
pasaje a través de la ciudad y una barrera hacia el Estrecho de la Florida. Las
dos figuras que se ven aquí cargan unos grandes tubos; el año después al que
Max Orlando Baños tomó la foto, decenas de miles de cubanos se lanzaron al mar
en embarcaciones improvisadas en lo que pasó a conocerse como la crisis de los balseros.




ProvenanceAnne Wilkes Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated in pencil, lower right corner, verso: "Max Orlando 94"

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