Socialism and cha-cha-cha: Agnès Varda's photos of Cuba forgotten for 50 years
"Agnès Varda’s pictures of Cuba had been sitting untouched in boxes since the mid-1960s. The images – of female bodies in form-fitting silhouettes, and men harvesting in cane fields – 'were never meant to be shown,' says the grande dame of French cinema. The compendium of thousands of photographs had been taken in service of her film, Salut les Cubains; after it was completed, Varda cast the images aside. That was until curator Clément Chéroux looked through her archives and discovered them. ..."
Guardian
Beyond the Photo Album: Relocating Varda’s Salut les Cubains
YouTube: AGNES VARDA in Cuba
May 2011: The Beaches of Agnès, 2011 December: Interview - Agnès Varda, 2013 February: The Gleaners and I (2000), 2013 September: Cinévardaphoto (2004), 2014 July: Black Panthers (1968 doc.), 2014 October: Art on Screen: A Conversation with Agnès Varda, 2015 September: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Plaisir d’amour en Iran (1976), 2017 April: Agnès Varda’s Art of Being There, 2017 April: AGNÈS VARDA with Alexandra Juhasz, 2017 August: Agnès Varda on her life and work - Artforum, 2017 October: Agnès Varda’s Ecological Conscience, 2018 March: Faces Places - Agnès Varda and JR (2017), 2018 July: Vagabond (1985), 2019 March: Agnès Varda, Influential French New Wave Filmmaker, Is Dead at 90, 2019 April: Mur Murs (1980)
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