Pedro Beruvides
from the series Los centenarios

from the series Los centenarios
from the series Los centenarios
from the series Los centenarios
CultureCuban
Titles
  • from the series Los centenarios
  • from the series Los centenarios (The Centenarians)
Date1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 x 7 in. (23.8 x 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 in. (23.8 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Esther Parada
Object number2006.440
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Centenarians focus on Cuban men and women of African descent. These subjects, all 100 years old, were born before the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba. Although Beruvides was self-taught, he earned the top honor in the inaugural edition of the Ministry of Culture’s Cuban Photography Prize in 1982 for this series.  

En su serie Los Centenarios, Pedro Beruvides  retrata a hombres y mujeres cubanos de ascendencia africana, todos mayores de 100 años y nacidos antes de la abolición de la esclavitud en la isla en 1886. No obstante haber sido autodidacta, esta serie le valió a Beruvides el máximo galardón en la primera edición del Premio de Fotografía Cubana del Ministerio de Cultura, en 1982.


ProvenanceEsther Parada, Saxtons River, Vermont; given to MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition HistoryGrand National Prize of Photography (Premio Nacional de Fotografia, Ministerio de Cultura, 1982, Cuba
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso: "COVER L"
"Fotografo" in ink and artist stamp on verso in blue ink, lower right: "PEDRO BERUVIDES"

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