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Preview image of work. silver gelatin print, Schoolgirl, Cuba 31702

2017.40.1

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Schoolgirl, Cuba

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Artist

Dmitri Baltermants (Warsaw, Poland, 5/13/1912 - 6/11/1990, Moscow, Russia)

Title

Schoolgirl, Cuba

Creation Date

before 1990 (printed 2003)

Century

mid-20th century

Dimensions

13 15/16 x 11 in. (35 x 28 cm)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

Asia, Russia

Medium and Support

silver gelatin print

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Copyright

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Accession Number

2017.40.1

Conflicts in twentieth-century Europe provided the opportunity for photojournalist Dmitri Baltermants to satisfy his hunger for capturing revolutions and political unrest. Baltermants travelled alongside Soviet leaders to photograph Mao Tsetung in China and Fidel Castro in Cuba. When he visited Cuba, he created this photograph of a young Black girl smiling for his camera. Although Afro-Cubans severely lack representation, it is estimated that more than 300,000 enslaved Africans reached its shores during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Cuba, the enslaved Africans from Yoruba heritage combined elements of Catholicism and Yoruba religion to create Santería, a religion practiced today by many Cubans and others throughout the world.