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Book - Havana 

Burt Glinn 

In "Havana: The Revolutionary Moment", Burt Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana, arriving just after dawn on New Year's Day, 1959. He came in search of a revolution, and what he found there is one of the most revealing accounts of Fidel Castro and Cuba ever recorded. Glinn was able to grasp that, far more than bearing witness to some interesting news event, he found himself in the very midst of history in-the-making, at a moment of serious radical change. His images of Castro thronged by his countrymen... 

Burt Glinn 1959

CUBA. 1959. Times of euphoria as Fidel CASTRO and his army tries... 

Burt Glinn 1959

CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Night time arrival in La Havana. 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New Years day in front of Havana Hilton,... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. CASTRO sympathizers form an adhoc militia... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. January 1st, Batista has fled and there... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New years Day in Havana, confusion is... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. The American photographer Burt Glinn with... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New Year Days, CASTRO sympathizers form... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Abandoned tanks are parked at the Havana... 

Burt Glinn 1959

CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New years Day in Havana, confusion is... 

Burt Glinn 1959

CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New years Day in Havana, confusion is... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Local CASTRO sympathizers in Havana formed... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New Years Day, Suddenly everyone is a... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Castro revolutionary troops wearing "26... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New Years Day, police station, CASTRO... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New Year Days, police station, Castro... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Castro and his people were coming... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Bicycle rider that is part of a procession... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Bullet holes are evidence of the great... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. As the triumphal column of Castro's... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Troops passing through in a bus. 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. A bus brings triumphant Fidelistas down... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Fidelistas ride liberated tanks into La... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. A CASTRO's revolutionary soldier, part... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. CASTRO's partisans who fought with him... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. "Fidelistas" take over the Hilton Hotel... 

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CUBA. 1959. Journalists, who are following Fidel CASTRO on his... 

Burt Glinn 1959

CUBA. La Havana. 1959. After Batista left La Havana, Castro's... 

Burt Glinn 1959

CUBA. La Havana. 1959. The Havana Hilton Hotel in the hands of... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Young "guerillero" in from hiding speaks... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Listening the speech of Fidel CASTRO... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Fidel Castro delivering an hours-long... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. 'CASTRO on speakers platform with his... 

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CUBA. 1959. On another stop CASTRO lifts a young admirer. 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Fidel Castro in the crowd of white hats... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. 'The ragtag procession needed gas so... 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Fidel CASTRO has a soft drink in a small... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Surrounded by cheering crowds, CASTRO... 

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CUBA. 1959. 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New Year Days, a crowd begins to gather... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. A rag-tag procession of soldiers and other... 

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CUBA. 1959. Fidel Castro and his rebel army stop along the roadside... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Fidel CASTRO aboard a military vehicle... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Procession in the streets after CASTRO's... 

Burt Glinn 1959

CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Image of the revolution : Fidel CASTRO's... 

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CUBA. 1959. Fidel CASTRO outside the town hall of Cienfuega and... 

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CUBA. Cienfuego. 1959. Surrounded by rebels who came with him... 

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CUBA. Cienfuego. 1959. Fidel CASTRO addresses a press conference... 

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CUBA. 1959. Some of CASTRO's partisans on the country yard, while... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Fidel CASTRO speaking to a nun. 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. Fidel CASTRO greets the crowd in the... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Cartoons showing Fidel CASTRO kicking... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Fidel CASTRO was not old enough to be... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Band celebrating. 

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CUBA. Santa Clara. 1959. A crush forces Fidel CASTRO to make... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Thousands of supporters flocked in front... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Crowd awaits Fidel CASTRO to come on to... 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. Crowds cheer in main plaza. 

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CUBA. La Havana. 1959. New Year Days, Mother re-united with his... 
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