Havana de Cuba

Marzena Pogorzaly, Marzena Pogorzaly

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English

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 June 2023

Individual photographers; Photographs: collections

Marzena Pogorzaly made two trips to Havana. There, she walked the streets of Havana Vieja and El Centro, the old districts, trying to capture the melancholy beauty and decay of the city, and its inhabitants. Pogorzaly's calmly gorgeous images are not directly concerned with politics, but as someone who grew up in pre-Solidarity Poland, she combines mature scepticism about communist regimes with due respect for some of its achievements. As she explains in her introduction: Some of it was familiar. I was born, and grew up, behind the Iron Curtain. I immediately felt at home with the way The System worked, or rather the way it did not. But where the palette of my homeland was dull, drab and irredeemably monochrome, here I found a vivid treasure chest of visual epiphanies. Her chief care is for people, either viewed directly or by means of the traces they leave: posters of Che Guevara, neglected chairs, rickety old American cars. Her photographs are entirely without sentimentality but rich in that tradition of humanism which sees the deeper qualities that unite us with strangers, as well as the surface differences that divide us. Her Cubans are not pathetic victims of a dictatorship but a handsome, vital, proud and resourceful people.

AUTHOR: Marzena Pogorzaly has already been praised for her astonishing studies of Antarctic ice and for her searching portraits of writers.

SELLING POINTS: .

To look through Marzena Pogorzaly's Havana is to experience act after act in a heart-lifting opera of colour and humanity .

No condescension, no pity, but only an inspired use of form and pigment to honour the people and buildings and street furniture of this incomparable urban landscape- Neal Ascherson .

A heart-lifting, balanced photographic portrait of the streets and proud, resourceful Cubans of communist Havana, by a photographer who grew up in socialist Poland

56 colour illustrations

By: Marzena Pogorzaly
Photographs by: Marzena Pogorzaly
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 148mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 164g
ISBN: 9781843681519
ISBN 10: 184368151X
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 01 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

"Marzena Pogorzaly has already been praised for her astonishing studies of Antarctic ice and for her searching portraits of writers. Al Alvarez has written of ""her steady, loving eye"" and ""faultless sense of composition""; Neal Ascherson considers her ""one of the most distinguished and original polar photographers of her generation"" with ""a vigilant instinct for the numinous'""; Simon Schama has described her images as ""startling works of art - haunting, powerful, mesmerising."" In this new work, she offers us a valuable portrait of a moment in the history of Cuba, and a rich contribution to the distinguished history of street photography."

Reviews for Havana de Cuba

To look through Marzena Pogorzaly's `Havana' is to experience act after act in a heart-lifting opera of colour and humanity. No condescension, no pity, but only an inspired use of form and pigment to honour the people and buildings and street furniture of this incomparable urban landscape.aAAAÂ AAAÂ - Neal Ascherson