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René Peña
René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez (born in 1957 in Havana) is a Cuban photographer. His photographs have been in exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain, and the United States (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New York City). History René Peña graduated from the University of Havana with a specialization in English. He took his first pictures with his family camera at the age of eight years but has never had any formal training. His work focuses on the duality between human inability to escape institutionalization and human desire for individualism. Peña's photography is characterized by stark contrasts, between black and white, subject and background, subject and object. Peña's need for contrast is also reflected in his place of residence. He inhabits the Cerro neighbourhood of Havana which is home to a mostly poor African-Caribbean population, despite having been an enclave of Havana's richest families in the 19th century. Although sometimes compared to Robert Mapplethorpe, Peña c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a U.S. state, state in the northeastern United States. Bordered by New England to the east, Canada to the north, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, its territory extends into both the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. New York is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, fourth-most populous state in the United States, with nearly 20 million residents, and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 27th-largest state by area, with a total area of . New York has Geography of New York (state), a varied geography. The southeastern part of the state, known as Downstate New York, Downstate, encompasses New York City, the List of U.S. cities by population, most populous city in the United States; Long Island, with approximately 40% of the state's population, the nation's most populous island; and the cities, suburbs, and wealthy enclaves of the lower Hudson Valley. These areas are the center of the expansive New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Havana
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business to refer to actors, musicians, singers, dancers and other performers, in which they are known as ''Artiste'' instead. ''Artiste'' (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; "author" is generally used instead. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older, broader meanings of the word "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry * A follower of a pursuit in which skill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Photographers
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Living People
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1957 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is released in Japan. * January 20 ** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). * January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Date Of Birth Missing (living People)
Date or dates may refer to: * Date, the fruit of the date palm (''Phoenix dactylifera'') * Jujube, also known as red date or Chinese date, the fruit of ''Ziziphus jujuba'' Social activity *Dating, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner **Group dating **First date **Blind date *Play date, an appointment for children to get together for a few hours *Meeting, when two or more people come together Chronology *Calendar date, a day on a calendar *Date (metadata), a representation term to specify a calendar date **DATE command, a system time command for displaying the current date *Chronological dating, attributing to an object or event a date in the past **Radiometric dating, dating materials such as rocks in which trace radioactive impurities were incorporated when they were formed Arts, entertainment and media Music *Date (band), a Swedish dansband * "Date" (song), a 2009 song from ''Mr. Houston'' *Date Records, a subsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Photographers
This is a list of notable photographers. Africa Algeria * Zohra Bensemra (born 1968) * Sabrina Draoui (born 1977) * Hocine Zaourar (born 1952) Benin * Joseph Agbodjelou (1912–1999) * Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (born 1965) * Mayeul Akpovi (born 1979) Cameroon * Joseph Chila (born 1948) * Angèle Etoundi Essamba (born 1962) * Samuel Fosso (born 1962) * Jacques Toussele (1939–2017) Democratic Republic of the Congo * Gosette Lubondo (born 1993) * Joseph Makula (1929–2006) Egypt * Lara Baladi (born 1969) * W. Hanselman * Rana El Nemr (born 1974) * Laura El-Tantawy (born 1980) * Sherif Sonbol (1956–2023) * Ayman Lotfy (born 1968) Eritrea * Senayt Samuel (born 1969) Ethiopia * Eyerusalem Jiregna (born 1993) * Aïda Muluneh (born 1974) * Michael Tsegaye (born 1975) Gambia * Khadija Saye (1992–2017) Ghana * Edmund Abaka * Felicia Abban (born 1935–2024) * Campbell Addy (born c. 1993) * Daniel Attoumou Amicchia (1908–1994) * Philip Kwame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cuban Artists
List of Cuban artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Cuba, of Cuban descent or who produced works that are primarily about Cuba. A * Agustín Drake Aldama (1934–2022), metal sculptor, born in Matanzas * Edel Alvarez Galban (born 1967), visual artist, painter, born in Havana * Nela Arias-Misson (1915–2015), Cuban-born American abstract, expressionist painter *Pastor Argudín Pedroso (1880–1968), Afro-Cuban portrait painter from Havana * Armando de Armas Romero (1914–1981), Havana painter * Belkis Ayón (1967–1999), Havana painter and lithographer B * Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937–2001), Spanish-born Cuban poster artist * Henry Ballate (born 1966), artist, born in Aguada de Pasajeros * Juan Pablo Ballester Carmenates (born 1966), photographer, video artist, born in Camagüey * Dulce Beatriz (1931–2021), painter, born in Havana * José Bedia Valdés (born 1959), painter, born in Havana * Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
