Cuba - Photographs by Jack Kenny | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Kenny
Publisher: Corazon Press
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1912362
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 11.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0976834901
EAN: 9780976834908
ASIN: 0976834901
Publication Date: September 15, 2005
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Condition: oversized hardcover DIFFERENT BOOK " Angel Marcos En Cuba," it is a book of color photographs edited by the Naples Museum of Art and others
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Product Description
"Cuba Photographs by Jack Kenny" is 120 page hardcover coffee table book with 106 lush duo-tone images. Format is 11.5" square.
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So many moods March 31, 2008
One country, one people, so many moods...so much to linger on.
Like most Americans, I have never been to Cuba so I cannot say for certain, but the feeling from cover to cover is that of total authenticity.
Jack Kenny has expanded my world through his lens and obviously through his heart. His photos are wide-ranging and each one, evocative.
I love this book!
Jack Kenny's Love Affair with Cuba February 28, 2008
177 out of 193 found this review helpful
Since 1996 photographer Jack Kenny has been a frequent visitor (thirty visits as of the printing of this book in 2005) to the strangely mysterious island of Cuba, mysterious because for most of us since the Castro Regime the island has been off limits, the only information available being from the censored media and from friends who managed to periodically return to their Cuban home to cautiously visit family.
What Jack Kenny gives us in this generous, large-scale book is a series of vignettes of the people and places of the island we know so little. It is obvious from the technically facile, artistically composed black and white images that the people he shares with us have a trust in him. The photographs are from the old monarch of the island Havana, the Playa Baracoa, and the rural villages that dot the island. The players in this volume range in age from infants to the elderly, from lovers, game players, workers, families, and sundry gatherings of people making the best with the little they have.
And in great contrast to the simple beauty of the people Kenny focuses on the grand (if decaying) architecture of the ruins of a city that was once a chief tourist attraction for the world. Certain images feature statuary without heads but with intact wings, fossils of a grander time on this paradise. For those of us who are familiar only with the traditional 'shots' of the 'intended for public viewing' spaces on the controlled island, this collection celebrates an entirely new view of why Cuba remains so dear to the countless refugees who fled the island to live in America. This is a perfect time to turn to Jack Kenny's love affair with Cuba: with Fidel Castro having stepped down, perhaps there will now begin a transformation or return to normalcy that will revive the old Queen of the Caribbean. Grady Harp, February 08
 Revisiting Cuba through photographs July 24, 2006
Having visited the area myself, I find Jack Kenny's work to be a true representation of the island of Cuba. Mr. Kenny, however, delves deeper into the soul of the country and truly transmits the character of the people, the atmosphere of the region and,in black and white, the attraction and beauty of Cuba. John Baird, Clearwater, Florida
Extraordinary visual insight May 14, 2006
Jack Kenny's insight into the lives of today's ordinary Cubans offers an extraordinary visual introduction and occasional thoughtful comment on a culture I realize I knew nothing about. His presentation and excellent photography tell a story far more revealing and intimate than one of words alone. If only this examination were afforded to countless other tiny nations equally misunderstood and unknown. This is a fascinating book to all who look.
"Must Have" This Book May 13, 2006
This is a "must have" book for anyone interested in Cuba, and in great photography. Jack Kenny, a photographer from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has produced an incredible book of photos from his 40+ trips to Cuba over the last decade. His rare views of ordinary Cubans at work and play will dispel any notion you might have that Cuba is a somber and depressing place, and will draw you in to the history and the people that make Cuba our most fascinating neighbor. The photos themselves are clearly the work of a master photographer; the photo entitled "Che Tattoo" is alone worth the price of the book.
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