Mario Garcia Joya: A La Plaza Con Fidel (Books on Books #21)

Leandro Villaro & Mario Joya 

Hardcover | 19.05 x 1.3 x 24.77 cm | 80 pp

Errata Editions | 2017 | 9781935004400

A la plaza con Fidel (To the plaza with Fidel) is doubly rare among Cuban photobooks - relatively few photobooks were produced in Cuba after the Revolution, and A la plaza con Fidel is also notable for its unique subject matter. Photographed between 1959 and 1966 and published in 1970 by leading Cuban photographer and cinematographer “Mayito” (Mario García Joya, b.1938), the book focuses on Fidel Castro’s supporters and the festive atmosphere of the Revolution. Castro would mark important moments of the Revolution, when either revelry or reassurance was called for, with public addresses delivered in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución; “to the plaza with Fidel” became a refrain of the Revolution.

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