Fidel Castro in Deena Stryker's room at the Habana Libre Hotel, answering questions and writing to the ambassador in France

Item Information

Item ID

1092531-R1-E009
Title

Fidel Castro in Deena Stryker's room at the Habana Libre Hotel, answering questions and writing to the ambassador in France
Date

1964-02-25
Type

Still Image

photographs

black-and-white photographs

documentary photographs
Spatial Coverage

Havana (Cuba : Province)

Havana (Cuba)

Cuba
Subject

Cuba--History--1959-1990

Castro, Fidel, 1926-
Source

Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated

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Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated

Approximately 1,850 photographs shot in Cuba between 1963 and 1964 and processed by Alberto Korda on the island.

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Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated

The Deena Stryker Photographs collection contains photographs and related materials generated by the journalist, then known as Deena Boyer, during two trips to Cuba between July 1963 and July 1964. During her second trip to the island, she interviewed Fidel and Raúl Castro as well as other major figures in the Cuban Revolution. The Correspondence Series contains letters of introduction to Fidel Castro from Stryker as well as one written by Sánchez and a diagram drawn by Raúl Castro. Stryker's analysis of the complexities of nascent post-revolution Cuba are captured in a draft of the book she prepared for publication in Italy, housed in the Manuscript Material Series. The Photographic Material Series contains contact sheets, prints, and negatives shot between December 1963 and July 1964. Topics and photographic subjects include key members of the revolutionary government at work and relaxing; and life in Havana and in rural Cuba, focusing on farms, development projects, and schools. All of Stryker's original negatives were processed in Cuba by Alberto Korda, Fidel Castro's personal photographer. All of Stryker's negatives have been digitized and these images are available in their digital form; there are some prints and contact sheet images not represented digitally.