[Leica] Just back from Cuba

[Howard Ritter]

A perplexing part of this account is why a man as sophisticated as Castro’s personal photographer presumably ought to have been would have been willing to sell these negatives for $20 as recently as 20 years ago. Surely, even isolated in Cuba, he would have intuited something of their potential worth, and Cubans did have contact with many western nations. Wouldn’t it have been possible for him to offer them to a responsible foreigner for sale or consignment?

—howard


> On Dec 20, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Kevin Argue <kargue at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> Check out the story in todays Daily Mail about missing negs on Cuba from a man in Toronto.
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2881924/Incredibly-rare-pictures-Fidel-Castro-taken-photographer-iconic-Che-Guevara-image-uncovered-Toronto-flat.html
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> Kevin