[NYTr] Fidel Castro Photo Exhibition Opens in Venezuela

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Fidel Castro Photo Exhibition Opens in Venezuela

Havana, Nov 9 (acn). An exhibition of 100 photos of Cuban President 
Fidel Castro was inaugurated on November 8 and will run until December 
8 at Venezuela's National Library in Caracas.

Carefully prepared by Cuba's Library of Photography in celebration of 
Cuban President Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, the exhibit consists of a 
collection of emblematic images by over a dozen photographers, through 
which visitors gain insight into the life and times of the leader of 
the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 2003, reports Granma newspaper.

Entitled "Momentos," the exhibition includes works by outstanding 
artists, such as Osvaldo Salas, Alberto Korda, Luis Pierce, Raul 
Corrales, Roberto Salas, Jose Agraz, Mario Collado, Jose Tabio, Paco 
Altuna, Ernesto Fernandez and Liborio Noval, as well as others from the 
Diario de Cuba, which used to be published in the eastern province of 
Santiago de Cuba.

The exhibition's photographs, from several different Cuban 
publications, personal and public collections, are a priceless 
piece of history and bear the aesthetic sensibilities of their 
photographers, many of them overcoming a lack in technology with 
humanism and sensitivity.

The idea for the exhibition came as a result of the increasing cultural 
exchanges between Venezuela and Cuba, within the framework of the 
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).

Venezuelan Culture Minister Francisco Sesto, who attended the inaugural 
ceremony, called the exhibition "extraordinary," and said that the 
close cultural links enjoyed between the two countries wouldn't have 
been possible without the meeting of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez  
--"two Latin American giants."