I Was Cuba: A photo historian gets a look at a Cuba he never knew

Posted on: October 15th, 2007
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“Cuba is a cascade of random, off-guard images in the mind of Ramiro Fernandez, veteran photo editor and self-described “visualist”:

It is an insider’s view of the gilded-cage elevator that rose to his grandmother’s penthouse apartment atop Havana’s Hotel Telegrafo. It is the pet monkey she kept on the roof. It is the spellbinding view from her balcony, overlooking the Parque Central, the city’s main square.”*

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