CCCC

Title: CCCC

Photographer(s): Luc Chessex

Writer(s): Daniel Girardin

Designer(s): Thierry Häusermann, Raphaël Verona

Publisher(s): Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland - Fondation A.Stichting, Bruxelles, Belgique

Year: 2014

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Language(s): English, France

Pages: 138

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Binding: Hardcover

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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Cuba,

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Castro, Coca, Che, Cherchez la femme (Look for the woman).

Luc Chessex lived in Cuba from 1961 to 1975. As a member of the Prensa Latina agency and photo editor for the magazine Cuba internacional, he was an involved witness of the revolution. Cherchez la Femme, presented in Havana in 1966, is a work on Cuban women that goes beyond political discourse. It is also a reflection on photography, presented in Havana under the title "photo-lying", in contradiction to preconceived ideas about photography being a "mirror of the world".The series Che and Coca are part of the project Quand il n’y a plus d’Eldorado and Chessex follows Che's traces in Bolivia, and Coca explores Coca-Cola's iconographic image.These two figures symbolically shared public spaces, where myths battled against advertisements in an ironic confrontation.