Eduardo Hernandez Santos
El Muro: The Wall, 2009
Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press
One of 1,200 copies.
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Oblong quarto. Ten black-and-white triptych photographs, two bilingual essays, and a glossary, all printed duotone offset. Santos recounts, first visually then textually, the gay and trans nightlife of Havana, which...
Oblong quarto. Ten black-and-white triptych photographs, two bilingual essays, and a glossary, all printed duotone offset. Santos recounts, first visually then textually, the gay and trans nightlife of Havana, which took shape along the seawall. He describes the culture as one of "furtive encounters, cruising, reaffirmation, and confrontation of identities," an atmosphere similar to San Francisco or New York's West Village but transported to a 2005 Cuba just emerging from the economic downturn known as the Special Period. Santos's images capture the tension between insularity - both literal and personal - and community. As of 2026, the section of the seawall no longer exists and the book now functions as both contemporary journalism and as archive of a past, but not altogether lost, culture. Bound in a spiral binding to facilitate the breadth of the triptychs and of the wall itself. Fine in original shrinkwrap.


