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The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was one of the most spectacular political events of the 20th Century. A dramatic chapter in the Cold War, the improbably overthrow of the dictator, Fulgencio Batista by a ragtag band of young Communist guerrillas and intellectuals occurred just 90 miles from the United States.

Tracing the movement from the triumphal entry of the rebels into Havana on January 1, 1959 to the failed, CIA backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, these images show the tremendous influence of photography in recording and encouraging the revolutionary …