- from the series Los centenarios
- from the series Los centenarios (The Centenarians)
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 in. (23.8 × 17.8 cm)
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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
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