| Popular Contributor(s): Le Goues, Thierry (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 1576870758 ISBN-13: 9781576870754 Publisher: powerHouse Books OUR PRICE: $67.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2000 Annotation: New from high-profile fashion photographer Thierry Le Goues comes a lavish artist's book, "Popular" -- an earthy, luring tome of the rarely shown Havana social scene. In Le Goues' provocative duotone and sensuous four-color photographs, we're seduced by a culture of great joy amongst great poverty: raucous, heat-soaked street parties; spirited sparring matches in crumbling gymnasiums; voluptuous nudes plying their wares in derelict mansions; wizened balladeers savoring impossibly large Cohibas... |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - General - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
| Dewey: 972.912 |
| LCCN: 00055802 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 9.56" W x 12.18" (4.13 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New from high-profile fashion photographer Thierry Le Gou s comes a lavish artist's book, Popular, an earthy, luring tome of the rarely shown Havana social scene. In Le Gou s' provocative duotone and sensuous four-color photographs, we're seduced by a culture of great joy amongst great poverty: raucous, heat-soaked street parties; spirited sparring matches in crumbling gymnasiums; voluptuous nudes plying their wares in derelict mansions; wizened balladeers savoring impossibly large Cohibas... Le Gou s' models are drawn from the street: a mixture of Buena Vista Social Club stars and underground legends, the miscegenation of which, in Le Gou s' expert fashion sense, serves to create a raw, sexy style-one of abandon out of necessity, out of a lust for life-a spirit Le Gou s sees in Cuba as ubiquitous as the cigarettes from which the book draws its name. |