VANISHING CUBA is a visual storytelling project by American photographer and PWA leader Michael Chinnici. The collection depicts Cuba’s changes and challenges as it emerges from more than 60 years of isolation and decay. Michael’s 24 trips (now 33) to Cuba have yielded thousands of photographs and thought-provoking and emotional stories and created lifelong friendships. Vanishing Cuba is about capturing Cuba’s past, present, and future, and even more so, about capturing the “Soul of Cuba.” Michael’s love affair with Cuba and the Cuban people clearly comes through in this compelling and beautifully produced book. These handcrafted books have been printed in small quantities and will only be available for a limited time.

Acquired by some of the world’s most prestigious libraries, museums, and institutions, Vanishing Cuba resides in the halls of six of the eight Ivy League Schools’ libraries, including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Dartmouth—the museum bookstores at New York’s THE MET, MoMA, Tampa Museum of Art, as well as The Getty Center in Los Angles. Other universities include Trinity College in Dublin, Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK, NYU and NYU Abu Dhabi, Johns Hopkins, and countless other universities across the United States.

As the 44th President and First Lady of the United States, Barack & Michelle Obama received the 44th copy of the Vanishing Cuba Reserve Edition: Andy Garcia, a Cuban-born American actor, proudly owns and admires the Reserve Edition.

Anthony DePalma, a Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times writer for 22 years (Cuba and Latin America) and the author of “The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times” and “The Man Who Invented Fidel” wrote:

“You won’t find the essence of Cuba in its classic cars or its exquisite cigars, its rum, its music or its sub-baked beaches. At its sultry heart of hearts, Cuba is its extraordinary people—the common ones who manage, under the most challenging circumstances, to live, to love and to ferociously retain a solid sense of just exactly who they are. In Vanishing Cuba, documentary travel photographer Michael Chinnici manages to simultaneously capture the frailties of a changing Cuba as well as the enduring character of the Cubans themselves.

– Three Editions Available
– 348 Pages
– 300 Photographs & Stories
– English and Spanish
– Hardcover
– The Finest Italian Museum Quality Paper
– 10-Color Offset Printed
– Book Size: 12″ (31cm) x 13″ (33cm) x 1.7″ (4.4cm)
– Weight: 9 lbs (4 kg)

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