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"From turn-of-the-century street scenes to 1950s glamor, these images offer a window into that enchanting but complicated world." - TIME
"The culling now presented in Cuba Then is indeed remarkable. Nearly every image is utterly captivating. The history this expanded volume recounts, in visually sumptuous and thematically rich layers, is the one that some of us have seen or heard less of - namely, the history of pre-revolutionary Cuba, a place Fernández describes as 'a hedonistic international playground.' The images pertaining to that place are the immediately transporting ones. The images that jar you back to reality and the precariousness of our times are those that foreshadow the turmoil and turnover soon to come to Cuba; the handful that depict the revolution do so with stunning candor." - Hyperallergic
Ramiro Fernandez was born in Havana to a family involved in the pharmaceutical industry. He left Cuba in 1960, settling first in Palm Beach County and then in New York, where he was a photography editor at Time Inc. for 25 years. He was involved in the launches of Entertainment Weekly and People en Español magazines and worked at Sports Illustrated and People. A witness to the Cuban Revolution in his youth, Fernández's consuming passion has been to build a photography collection to represent the Cuba he remembers. Today his collection numbers more than 8,000 items.
Richard Blanco, born in Madrid in 1968 to Cuban parents, immigrated to the United States and eventually worked as a civil engineer. He turned to writing and studying poetry and has become an award-winning author with books like City of a Hundred Fires and Directions to the Beach of the Dead. He is the United States' fifth inaugural poet, writing for President Barack Obama's 2013 ceremony.