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...first time, Ernesto Fernandez (b. 1938) and his son, Ernesto Javier Fernandez (b. 1963), display their photographs side by side. The works of this father-son duo were selected from more than 100 portfolios sent to the Art Forum this year in their effort to showcase Latin American art at Harvard. The exhibition itself is informal and informative. Upstairs in the Center for Latin American studies, the black and white, photojournalistic pictures of Ernesto Fernandez tell a chronological history of the Cuban Revolution. In the downstairs resource room, his son’s colorful scenes of present-day Havana show...
...main part of the exhibition, dedicated to the works of Ernesto Fernandez Sr., is hung in chronological categories: “Before the Revolution,” “The Revolution of 1959,” “Portraits” and “The New Leaders.” Each group of photos presents a different angle from which to view the 1960s in Cuba...
...Castro, hands on hips and cigar in teeth, standing jovially with a group of young soldiers. In Fernandez’ portrayal of the October Crisis of 1962, a 12-year-old boy turns away from his post at a machine gun and towards the camera, holding a small puppy. Fernandez senior always brings aesthetic and social awareness to his viewers. The pictures show Cuban personalities, agriculture, war, culture and life, effectively describing an era, the “now” of Fernandez senior’s career...
...other hand, his son, Ernesto Javier Fernandez, illustrates how the past has shaped the Cuba of today, both in his scenes of Havana and of Cuban beaches and farms. He is more interested in the Cuban landscape than his father, tracing the legacy of past people and events in the surroundings they changed...
...example, Fernandez proudly photographs El Capitolio, characterized by beautiful if crumbling buildings and dotted with scaffolds under a bright blue sky. His various shots of street scenes in Havana feature children of all different races in school uniforms, old Spanish-style architecture, American cars from the 1950s and puffy dresses from the 1980s. These photographs capture Cuba at a crossroads between its troubled past and its ambiguous future...