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| Young girl standing outside La Bodeguita del Medio, a favorite haunt of Ernest Hemingway. She was waiting for handouts of money, pencils, etc. from the tourists who pack the place, many of whom sign their names on the walls. |
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A young man selling horns made out of aluminum soda and beer cans at the Agricultural Exposition Grounds. |
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| A woman in Cathedral Plaza, holding a small bird made out of palm fronds. |
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Woman smoking a cigar and selling natural, herbal medicines. She is part of a group that has decorated and maintains a small alley in Vedado as a site for art, culture and the Santeria religion. |
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Two construction workers at an apartment building in Las Guisimas, outside Havana. They are part of a microbrigade of workers, taken from various occupations, who help to build their own houses. |
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Olga and son |
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The Casa de Africa in Old Havana, one of many buildings dating from the 1600's that have been restored by the Cuban government. It is filled with gifts from Castro's tour of Africa in 1977 and items from the Santeria religion. |
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A man reading on the steps of the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. This was the army barracks and arsenal attacked by Fidel Castro and over 100 revolutionaries in 1953, the first decisive military action of the Revolution. |
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Yanni (left) and Odymara, two queer youth from Havana. |
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Rick Gerharter • P.O. Box 420268 • San Francisco, CA • 94142
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