Untitled (twelve photographs: Cuban revolutionaries) after 1950

Editor: Here we have Lester Cole’s "Untitled (twelve photographs: Cuban revolutionaries)." It's a sheet of black and white photographs, each depicting different scenes. They seem to document something. What do you see in this piece? Curator: This work presents photographic labor as a physical object. Consider the darkroom processes, the photographic paper used, the conscious selection of these twelve images on a single sheet. How does the means of production shape our understanding of the Cuban Revolution itself? Editor: That's interesting. I hadn't considered the materiality as part of the message. Curator: Exactly! It prompts us to question the accessibility and consumption of such imagery, and its role in shaping political narratives. Editor: I see what you mean. Thanks for pointing that out!