Woman and Children, Havana
- Photographer
- Walker Evans, American, 1903–1975
- Date
- 1933
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- depicts
- Havana, Cuba, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (14 x 20 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Shop Fund
- Rights
- © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object Number
- 16:1986
NOTES
This photograph of impoverished Cubans sitting and sleeping near a large wooden door is by Walker Evans. The photographer was commissioned to take pictures of the people and places of Cuba for a book called The Crime of Cuba written by the journalist Carleton Beals. Highly political, the book contained scathing criticism of the United States' role in Cuba's misfortunes. When Evans traveled to Havana in May 1933 he found a country in upheaval. In his notes he wrote, "It's still a frontier town, and half savage, forgetful and unsafe. . . . I have been drunk with this new city for days."
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