Visual Cultures of American Modernism

Documenting The Crime of Cuba : An Américan Left and the 1933 Cuban Revolution

“…All-important was photography's ability to represent the "real" through interruption rather than affirmation. 62 Evans, who later became well known through his work for the Farm Security Administration and his collaboration with James Agee in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), brings the Cuban subaltern into the body politic via this process of interruption. Evans traveled to Cuba in 1933 at the request of J.…”