"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and Cuba.". "As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs are the work of an artist whose temperament was distinctly at odds with Beals's impassioned rhetoric. Evans's photographs of Cuba were made…
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Editions
19 editions · 4 languages
Hardcover · English · 2000
Princeton University Press · 332 pages · 9780691050782
Paperback · English · 1985
HarperCollins (paper) · 9780060911157
Hardcover · English · 1973
Da Capo Press · 503 pages · 9780306700996
Other · English · 2007
Thames & Hudson · 9780500410844
Other · English · 2001
J. Paul Getty Museum · 95 pages · 9780892366170
Other · English · 2000
Arena Editions · 263 pages · 9781892041296
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