Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway – The New York Times

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Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway

To ensure his photos would not be confiscated by authorities, Walker Evans entrusted a trove of 46 prints made in 1933 Havana to his friend — Ernest Hemingway.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/walker-evanss-cuba-via-ernest-hemingway/

It seems fitting that during Walker Evans’s one-month stay in Havana in 1933 he would befriend Ernest Hemingway. The two shared an appreciation of a spare style that would influence countless others in photography and literature. In fact, Evans entrusted Hemingway with a trove of original prints to ensure they would not be confiscated by the authorities who were violently suppressing popular outrage against the dictator Gerardo Machado.