Please, please .. . . nothing too slick or perfect.Give me ripped, frayed, faded & crumbling.
Yesterdays pretensions give way to today's reality.
Allow well worn textures to speak of times pastand footsteps etched upon stone.
Michael Eastman's photography captures all this and more.Stories shared and secrets unspoken.
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These are some of his best known images from the Cuba series.
Stay tuned for more from Cuba, as well as his Vanishing America photos.
10 comments:
This is not lost pretentions. This is my homeland destroyed by an ideology. Beautiful, sad images.
I love these photos of Cuba. Robert Polidori's too. I could live in these rooms.
Catherine
Lovely pictures, and they speak a thousand words, transporting us back into times gone by.
I always wonder how you do find these wonderful things!! These are enchanting!
Wabi Sabi, me love love love & like like like! AMAZING & THANK YOU!!
Lots of love
Agneta
Ps. have I told you that you are the best? Ds
intriguing - provocative - beautiful - haunting - tragic - these photos tell us so much.
Many wouldn't...but i totally agree with you Ms J... they can keep the Home Depot lookalike estates... give me old buildings with character any day.
I too have learned to appreciate the beauty of decay. Perhaps it is an acquired taste....
Okay, I've accepted it. I'm seriously not going to get anywork done today. I'm just going to linger chez vous.
Beautiful posts Judith!
The photography is excellent but the subject is not. People live in these buildings. These buildings collapse and they kill people. As simple as that. What is aesthetic for the western eye is destructive for the Cuban one.
This is the debris of a dream. Of a despot's dream and as someone who had to endure it for more than twenty-five years, it doesn't bring many good memories.
Greetings from London.
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