{"product_id":"9781580935104","title":"Cuba Then: Revised and Expanded","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing on the success of the first edition of \u003ci\u003eCuba Then\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), this revised and expanded edition introduces dozens of dazzling new images that build on the allure of Cuba, past and present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the first edition of \u003ci\u003eCuba Then\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2014, there have been several seismic shifts: President Obama moved to normalize relations, a US embassy was opened, Fidel Castro died, and the current administration announced plans to freeze relations again. This intensified interest in Cuba has seen record numbers of Americans traveling there. It is only fitting to release a revised and expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eCuba Then\u003c\/i\u003e to satisfy the demand for this growing interest in the country's history and visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith fifty newly selected vintage photographs and pieces of ephemera from the collection of Ramiro Fernández, the most extensive archive of Cuban photography outside of the island nation, \u003ci\u003eCuba Then\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to the lost eras of style, glamor, ebullience, intrigue, and upheaval. The more than 300 images here span the entire spectrum of photographic history, including rare daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, and stereograms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rich spectrum of personalities spanning more than a century appear: aristocratic race-car drivers, movie stars and showgirls, gangsters, spies, and everyday folk. Much of Fernández's collection is little seen and never published, including unique prints of Castro riding on a public bus and of Heinz Lüning, the Nazi spy who inspired Graham Greene's \u003ci\u003eOur Man in Havana\u003c\/i\u003e. Featuring a foreword by poet Richard Blanco, \u003ci\u003eCuba Then\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome new edition of this seductive photographic survey of the small island that continues to fascinate the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Monacelli Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030922215664,"sku":"9781580935104","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781580935104_p0.jpg?v=1763779561","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781580935104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}