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Start: 7:00 pm
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Photographs that purport to represent Cuba and its people often reproduce the narrow American imagination of the place, starting and ending in Old Havana. The documentary photographer Jack Beckham-Combs has been making photographs of the Cuban people over the course of six years and fifteen visits to the island. His images range from the urban to the rural, from saturated colors and polished night skies to vibrant street scenes full of movement and sere agricultural landscapes. Much of Combs' time was spent outside Havana, traveling to cities, smaller towns, villages, and farms in every Cuban province. In The Cubans (Documentary Photography, $49.95), his pictures of agricultural life are beautiful pastoral compositions. Rarer still is the emphasis his eye places on ordinary people living their everyday lives. In the accompanying essay, Dr. Julia E. Sweig – the Rockefeller Senior Fellow and Director of Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington – ponders the future of Cuba and the Cubans and the factors that make this conundrum so complex, but one that is sure to result in change. 7pm
Start: 7:30 pm
He may not have been that into you, but the bastard who just broke your heart will be a distant memory after reading Don't Date Him Girl Presents: So the Bastard Broke Your Heart, Now What? (Polka Dot Press, $13.95). Written by
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