Raúl Corrales
Caballería

Caballería
Caballería
Caballería
ArtistCuban, 1925–2006
CultureCuban
Titles
  • Caballería
  • Cavalry
Date1960
PlaceCuba
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 3/4 × 13 5/16 in. (22.2 × 33.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/16 × 13 1/2 in. (24 × 34.3 cm)
Frame (outer): 16 5/8 × 20 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (42.2 × 52.3 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Esther Parada
Object number2006.471
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Raúl Corrales’s Cavalry records an event at which the nationalization and expropriation of a plantation owned by the United Fruit Company were celebrated by reenacting a famous scene from Cuba’s late 19th-century war for independence from Spain. With reenactments such as this, the triumph of the revolu- tion was linked to a decades-long struggle to shake off the bonds of colonialism. Corrales’s photograph of smiling guerrillas wearing matching straw hats, riding horses, and waving Cuban flags also conjures associations with heroic 19th-century history paintings.  

Caballería, de Raúl Corrales, documenta la nacionali- zación y expropiación de una plantación de la United Fruit Company. Para celebrarlo, se recreó un pasaje significativo de la guerra de independencia contra España a finales del siglo XIX. Con escenificaciones como esta, el triunfo de la revolución se presentaba como una continuación de aquella lucha de décadas contra el colonialismo. La fotografía de Corrales, que muestra a los guerrilleros cabalgando sonrientes, agitando banderas cubanas y luciendo sombreros de yarey idénticos, también evoca las pinturas históricas del siglo XIX.


ProvenanceEsther Parada, Saxtons River, Vermont; given to MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso upper center: "10 Top Right"

Marked in pencil verso upper right: "K C"
Unsigned

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