Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Artist
Humberto Mayol (Cuban, born 1955)Cuban, born 1955
CultureCuban
Titles
- Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
- from the series Los Romanticos Angeles de la Tierra (The Romantic Angels of the Earth)
Date1992
PlaceCuba
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 11 5/8 in. (19.7 × 29.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.6 × 35.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.6 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mary Porter and Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number94.784
Not on view
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
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.
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left below image in ink "Stgo de lube[?], Cuba, 1992"
lower right margin in ink "H Mayol"
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