Cuba Cubain -1961

Title: Cuba Cubain -1961

Photographer(s): Roger Pic

Writer(s): Claude Faux

Designer(s):

Publisher(s): La Guilde du Livre, Lausanne, Switzerland

Year: 1961

Print run:10000 + 30 reserved for facilitators of La Guilde du Livre

Language(s): French

Pages: 138

Size: 22 x 28 cm

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition:

Print: Maison Héliographia S.A.,Lausanne, Switzerland

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Cuba, 1961

ISBN:

The book's cover is strikingly original, featuring a beautiful photomontage of Che Guevara and the colours of the Cuban flag. It was a high-circulation book, as was customary in 1961, with 10,000 copies printed plus 30 copies not for sale, reserved for supporters of the Guilde du Livre. Journalists Claude Faux and his wife Gisèle Halimi were among the first French people officially invited to Cuba in December 1959 and, together with reporter Roger Pic, they show us a Cuba made up of young workers, all smiling, who have just discovered freedom but who will nevertheless have to face a future full of pitfalls.