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Cuba Classics
A Celebration of Vintage American Automobiles

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Martin Cruz Smith
author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay

"This is the most beautiful, most sympathetic photo book
about Cuba I have seen for years. It's terrific!"


Publisher's Weekly

"In this paean to the vintage car, Baker, who has also provided the photos, juxtaposes American autos against the backdrop of Cuba to great effect. 'Today, Cuba possesses about 450,000 cars, of which one-sixth are pre-revolutionary American autos dating back to the '20s and '30s,' he writes. Most of the cars pictured here, however, come from the 1950s: a pristine-looking green 1950 Chevrolet Styline Bel-Air is parked alongside a gray, weathered house; in the foreground an old man in a straw hat walks by eating from two ice cream cones... The photos effectively capture the beauty of the vintage cars themselves as well as the country that keeps them running. This photographic history is a nice companion to Baker's award-winning travel memoir, Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba."

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Andrei Codrescu
author of Ay! Cuba and contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered"

"Cuba is a photographer's dream and nightmare: she is pathologically photogenic. Only the best artists can simultaneously pose and question her. Baker does."


Ann Louise Bardach
author of Cuba Confidential: Love and Death in Miami and Havana

"Christopher P. Baker's  is the history of 20th century Cuba told through its love affair with the automobile–an enduring symbol of its inventive and resilient spirit."


 

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