Themed look Ida Carr. Cuba 1964, the exhibition collects photographs made during the period in which he settled in the Caribbean nation, capturing such famous intellectuals as José Lizama Lima, Aligo Carpenter, Raúl Martinez, Amelia Pelaez and Alberto Korda.
As the project hosting organization states, from the social network Facebook, the photos were taken after the time Carr lived in Paris, France (1928-1933), where he met the artistic avant-garde.
Similarly, the text cites the opening of a photography studio in Cairo, Egypt, and his experiences in London, UK, his final home, as background for the exhibition.
Associated with the English Surrealist movement, the artist of Armenian descent developed a comprehensive work of portraits of figures such as Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Dmitri Shostakovich, Bridget Riley, Marc Chagall, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Moore, Georges Braque, among others.
Best known for her portraits of important figures in twentieth-century art and literature, Carr has captured through her lens Cuban figures and thinkers, who today have become an indispensable part of the history of various aesthetic expressions in the greater Antilles.
For this reason, the exhibition has been included in the calendar of activities in saluting Cuban Culture Day (October 20), a date celebrated throughout the country with various fairs, film screenings, concerts, festivals, theater and dance scene, among other proposals.
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