El muro / The Wall. Photographs by Eduardo Hernandez Santos.
Red Trillium Press. Santos, Eduardo Hernandez.
Havana, Cuba: Red Trillium Press / Aqui, en la lucha, 2009. First Edition, trade issue. The regular edition of EL MURO is a book of ten black and white triptych photographs, two bilingual essays and a glossary, Letraset type. Page size: is 9 x 14"; semi-concealed wire-o binding opening to 20" so the triptychs may be viewed in full. The photographs are printed duo tone offset lithograph on Shine:a luminous mica coated, acid free paper with three sheets of translucent magenta paper separating the photographs and essays. A deluxe edition of 50 copies containing two original photographs by Eduardo Hernandez Santos, housed in a custom-made box, together with the trade issue of the book exists as well. Steven Daiber has brought this project to life, after meeting with Cuban artist Eduardo Hernandez Santos in 2007 to exchange prints with Daiber's wife, American artist Jacqueline Hayden. Daiber tells us that Eduardo Hernández Santos EL MURO is a composite chronicle of late-night life at Havanas utmost limit of the city: the seafront wall, popularly know as the Malecón. EL MURO is a significant visual source of constantly-thwarted gay nightlife in Havana, but above all it is a social document about the members of a historical underclass emerging from hiding to contest efforts to control their lifestyles, to proclaim their normality and their non-conformity of the status quo. These powerful images express the subjects abiding desire to reaffirm their existence. (Item ID: 10277)
$60.00
