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Photo by: David Alan Harvey
David Alan Harvey: Capturing Cuba
David Alan Harvey: Capturing Cuba
Iris Nights Lecture Series
Lecture
PAST EVENT: Thu, Dec 07, 2017
David Alan Harvey has shot over 40 photographic essays for National Geographic magazine, including projects on French teenagers, the Berlin Wall, Mayan culture, Vietnam, Native Americans, Mexico, Naples, and Nairobi. In 1999, National Geographic published one of his major works, Cuba—described as a “sympathetic understanding of Cuba’s contemporary way of life.” He credits himself as both a photographer and mentor, considering the workshops and seminars he leads to be an essential part of his work. Harvey’s discussion of his work in Cuba will be informed by his years instructing young photographers in New York City.
Speaker
David Alan Harvey
David Alan Harvey discovered photography at the age of 11 while growing up in Virginia. Harvey purchased a used Leica with savings from his newspaper route and began photographing his family and neighborhood in 1956. When he was 20, he lived with—and documented the lives of—a black family living in Norfolk, Virginia, and…
Exhibit
Revealing complexities both on and off the island, Cuba Is explores aspects of Cuba not easily accessed by foreigners, and sometimes not even by Cubans themselves.
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Annenberg Space for Photography's Skylight Studios
10050 Constellation Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Los Angeles, CA 90067