Pietropaolo, Vincenzo, 1951- artist.

Making home in Havana / photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo ; text by Cecelia Lawless.

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2002]
©2002

xii, 115 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

"Making Home in Havana is an elegant book of photographs and testimonies, recording, questioning, and evoking the meaning of place - in particular, the meaning of home. The combination of fine photography and the words of residents of former palaces, humble apartments, and other dwellings offers us an irresistible portrait of Havana that might otherwise be lost forever."
"Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Cecelia Lawless have made numerous visits to Havana in order to fully understand and convey the essence of what home means to the inhabitants of the dwellings of the Centro Habana and El Vedado neighborhoods. Together, they - and we - explore how a building becomes a home through its human history as well as its architectural features. With some renovation already under way in colonial Havana, they concentrate on largely unexplored and unrecognized sections that continue to fall into ruin. The intimacy of their connection with the buildings and the people offers us a rare combination of documentary realism and high art.
Residents of Havana tell their stories of lifelong efforts to turn decay into beauty, while the photographer's evocative pictures enable us to feel exactly what they are talking about - a creation of time and space called home."--Jacket.

0813530946 (alk. paper)
9780813530949 (alk. paper)

Pietropaolo, Vincenzo.
Dwellings Cuba Havana Pictorial works.
Architecture, Domestic Cuba Havana Pictorial works.
Habitations Cuba La Havane Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture, Domestic
Dwellings
Travel
Fotografie
Havana (Cuba) Pictorial works.
Havana (Cuba) Description and travel.
Cuba Havana
Havanna

Illustrated works
Dust jackets (Binding)
Bildband.

Lawless, Cecelia Elisabeth Burke, 1961-

Location: Library main 224295
Call No.: TR140.P626 M3 2002
Status: Available