Raúl Corrales Fornos
photographer
Raúl Corrales Fornos (1925–2006) was a prominent Cuban photographer who spent his life capturing the soul of Cuba. He began his professional career in 1944 as a laboratory assistant and later became a photoreporter for the agency Cuba Sono Films. In 1953, he started collaborating with magazines such as Carteles and Bohemia. Corrales is renowned for his documentation of the Cuban Revolution, capturing epic moments involving figures like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. His work is characterized by an aesthetic dimension that balances journalistic agility with a sensitive, lyrical expression of everyday life and historical transformation. He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas in 1996.[1,3,4]
Themes
- Cuban Revolution
- Everyday life in Cuba
- Historical documentation
- Portraiture
Books
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Cuba La Imagen y la Historia (kwijt)photographer
Works by Raúl Corrales Fornos
- Cuba: La Imagen y la Historia 1996 · Edizioni Aurora · book · Spanish Monograph of his photography.
- Playa Giron Bay Of Pigs 1981 · book Collection of photographs taken from 1959 to 1961.
Exhibitions
- 1997 Raúl Corrales: Cuba. La imagen y la historia solo
Awards
- 1996 Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas