Cajón Photography in Cuba

Cuba has a great amount of wonderful curiosities.choose this site for making new friends, for been
That is the case of the cajónphotographed or taking some pictures with their
photography, marvel that seems to be taken outmodern digital cameras, or just for fraternizing with
from a very, very old book of stories to be shown inthese photographers that try to present old cameras
a century of advanced technology.as an innovation whose epoch has really gone away.
  Such a wonder has an extra value  Still fresh, those times of
in Havana. Those people who visit its capitol have thetechnological introductions during the 1900-1918
possibility of been photographed before the staircaseintervals of various devices characterized by having
of this colossal building. There, some photographs aresprings and long legs of their tripods. At that time,
ready for taking a good picture of you with nothingthese apparatuses were in vogue all over the world.
less than a cajón camera.  However, people may see these
  This device always draws thedevices -well preserved and real museum pieces, now
attention of foreign visitors who immediately want toin the hands of persons who most of the time do
be photographed for taking the picture to theirnot know the history of photography. Nevertheless,
countries as a souvenir of having enjoyed a sort ofthey are part of it.
journey to the past without using a time machine.  Nonetheless, in Havana as well as
  It is a real Cuban feast the factin some other cities around the Island,
of personally living such an experience, talking withcajón photography is still a luxurious
the owners of the old cameras -real museum pieces,activity, an artistic expression with unique features
as well as taking a look to their good working orderwidespread with the purpose of promoting tourism
and the way their owners keep them alive, working.using a very particular method: giving poetry.
  The photographers of this kind of  In general terms,
cameras are a real big shot. Carrying an antiquecajón photographers of these days are
camera, they position themselves in front of theold persons probably nostalgic for a city of
staircase of the capitol of Havana. It is an invitationstreetcars, theatres showing comedies, and demure
for people passing by for been photographed. Theyclothes in contrast with today's fashion of short
also use this place because it is crowded all the time.clothes and almost-uncovered women.
  Champions of the image, they  Such a simple person is the
seem a modern Don Quixote trying to preserve millscajón photographer: symbol, part and
of light and colour in the time of cutting-edgecounterpart of an image worth to remember or to
technology, powerful plane trips among othertake home. Graphic essence of the silhouette of the
advances of science. Nevertheless, these artistsarchitecture of other times, symbol that just hides in
-somehow they are, succeed with their old apparatus.a click!
  Every day more and more visitors