Hemingway, Cuba, and Evans

1933 Cuba

Walker Evans is a photographer who was well known for his works in his later career. His photos were able to display emotions. Not the simple emotions of joy, sorrow, love, hate, but complex emotions. Despair of a single poor woman raising two kids in a house on the outskirts of civilization with little to eat and barely surviving. He is able to capture moments in peoples lives that not everyone can recognize.

We see this in some of his earlier photos in Cuba. At the exhibit in Naples Evans is able to portray people when they are off guard. By using a sly technique of ... the photographer captures shots of people who think they are looking at a photographer who has set up his tripod to take a shot of something intriguing, but when really Evans is hiding beneath his black cape and taking a picture of the person when they least expect it.

In addition to the collection, eerie photos of the tragedies of the upheaval in Cuba are also included. With graphic images that leave no room for imagination, images of Cuban youth who have been shot dead are mixed in with images of palm trees and Hemingway in his joyful youth spent in the jazz era and bar scene in Cuba's lively 30s.