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/El muro/ is on sale for $30 + shipping and handling. Sale runs until January 5, 2012 <http://redtrilliumpress.com/store/el-muro/> / El muro <http://redtrilliumpress.com/portfolio/collaborations/el-muro/>/, a collection of photographs by Eduardo Hernández Santos, documents the *Cuban Gay and Trans *community. These indelible images are published here for the first time; in Cuba they would never have seen the light of day. The pictures in /El muro/ tell a remarkable story of human endurance and triumph. /These photos are my tribute to these people, to their courage,/ Hernández says. Eduardo Hernández Santos made these photographs of homosexuals, transgenders and crossdressers in the summer of 2005 at Havana's seafront wall. Working only at night, Hernández Santos developed his film with expired chemicals and printed his images on outdated photo paper. His darkroom was his bedroom. Hernández then used transfer lettering to literally press onto his prints the words of the late gay Cuban poet and playwright, Virgilio Piñera. One night at 4:00 a.m., on his way home from phographing the wall, Hernández Santos was beaten and robbed of his camera. His project ended then and there. The premier showing of /El muro/ in the United States was this fall at the Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA while Eduardo was an artist in residence at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Cuban-American novelist Eduardo Santiago writes, "/Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and a stunning array of transgenders face the lens with fierce defiance. . . This book is an act of faith and courage. I loved looking into those dark, defiant eyes."/ /" In El muro, Eduardo Hernández reveals a moment of Havana's nightlife. . . The central pages of this edition show these night creatures in action: dark painted nails, leather handles, lots of glam, fishing nets, . . . a young boy with chains---earrings and piercings everywhere---getting stopped (by the wall itself)." /José Quiroga José Quiroga was born in Havana, Cuba and is a Professor of Spanish at Emory University. -- Steven C Daiber Red Trillium Press/ Aqui en la lucha www.redtrilliumpress.com 221 Pine St. #332, Florence, MA 01096 413-695-7990 Making of Privacidad www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue_notebook/1010/9391/tbn11.pdf Cuban Collaborations http://www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/vol7contents.htm Interview with Roberta Fallon http://theartblog.org/2009/11/talking-with-steven-daiber-about-art-cuba-and-el-muro/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~