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Center For Cuban Studies - Lee Lockwood

Lee Lockwood was a photojournalist and founder of the Center for Cuban Studies. He made over a dozen trips to Cuba starting in 1958 during the Cuban Revolution. He conducted a famous week-long interview with Fidel Castro in 1965 that was published in his book "Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel." Lockwood hoped his work would further understanding of Cuba and help normalize US-Cuba relations. After his death, his photos donated to the Center for Cuban Studies continue to provide an important visual resource for understanding Cuba's history.

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Center For Cuban Studies - Lee Lockwood

Lee Lockwood was a photojournalist and founder of the Center for Cuban Studies. He made over a dozen trips to Cuba starting in 1958 during the Cuban Revolution. He conducted a famous week-long interview with Fidel Castro in 1965 that was published in his book "Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel." Lockwood hoped his work would further understanding of Cuba and help normalize US-Cuba relations. After his death, his photos donated to the Center for Cuban Studies continue to provide an important visual resource for understanding Cuba's history.

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Center for Cuban Studies - Lee Lockwood

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Lee Lockwood (1932-2010)


Lee Lockwood was a founder of the Center for Cuban
Studies. He was in Cuba the very day the revolution came
to power and made more than a dozen trips after that. He
231 West 29th Street, 4 Fl was a photojournalist with the Black Star Photo Agency
New York NY 10001 and his photos and articles appeared in Time, Life, Look,
Playboy and other leading magazines in the U.S. and
Call for information or prices: abroad. His marathon interview with President Fidel
Castro, conducted for a week in 1965 with some catch-up
t. 212.242.0559 the following year, first appeared in short form in Playboy
f. 212.242.1937 magazine. In 1967, Lee’s book, CASTRO’S CUBA, CUBA’S
FIDEL, was published (Random House) with the interview
[email protected] closer to its original length and with photographs Lee took
during those first trips. The interview is still the single
Cuban Art Space Gallery best portrait of Fidel Castro in the early years.
hours:
Lee was born in New York City and took up photography
Monday - Friday: 11 - 7 as a boy. He graduated from Boston University in 1954 in
Saturday: 12 - 6 comparative literature and later did graduate work at
Other times by appointment Columbia in the field. He served with the Army in the mid-
1950s, stationed in Munich.
Help Today - Donate Today He landed in Havana as the Batista dictatorship drew to a close in late December 1958 purely by
chance, accompanying a fellow journalist on a rush assignment to Cuba from Cape Canaveral.
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In Lee’s introduction to the first edition of CASTRO’S CUBA, CUBA’S FIDEL, he wrote: “No one who was
in Cuba then, whether Cuban or foreigner, and regardless of his present opinion of Castro, could ever
forget the spirit of exaltation and hope tht permeated the island during the first days of the
Revolution. The central highway was a 500-mile-long parade route lined an entire day in advance with
Cubans waiting to catch a glimpse of Fidel as he passed. In each provincial capital Castro made a
For Center and Cuba News,
speech that lasted four, five, even six hours; some of them did not begin until after midnight, yet
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hundreds of thousands of cubanos listened to the end, cheering with delirium.”
Information and much more
go to www.cubaupdate.org
Lee first had the idea for a Center for Cuban Studies in 1968 and four years later, the Center opened,
in part to help accomplish what Lee hoped his book would accomplish: a reasonable rather than
irrational understanding of Cuba. To the last month of his life Lee made certain to know what the
Center was doing and did everything possible to support the Center’s work. When he and his wife
Joyce moved from Boston to Weston, Florida several years ago, he donated hundreds of his vintage
prints to the Center. They constitute an invaluable visual resource and one that keeps Lee with us
always.

After Lee’s death on July 31, The New York Times’ Margalit Fox wrote in her obituary of Lee: “As his
work through the decades made clear, Mr. Lockwood regarded photo-journalism as a potent
instrument for social change.” The more often Lee’s photographs are exhibited, the better our
understanding of Cuba’s history will be – and will contribute to Lee’s longstanding hope that U.S.
policy toward Cuba will change, to finally recognize Cuba’s government after more than 50 years and
to fully normalize relations.
To read the obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08lockwood.html

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231 West 29th Street 4 Fl | New York NY 10001 | 212.242.0559 | [email protected]

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