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Decades earlier, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by radical American journalist Carleton Beals, who wanted to expose the corruption of dictator Gerardo Machado, who ruled Cuba from 1925–1933. Evans photographs were taken in that last year, shot over a quarter of a century before Castro would create history and alter the country forever. Evans images show a world that looks so very familiar, like a refrain from a song we know. Evans photographed the sidewalks, the streets, the signage of the times, the decorative elements of architecture, the street sellers and the prostitutes, and the people of Cuba who have been the victim of a corrupt government and live as they need to in order to make it through.
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