Original oversize press photograph of Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev in Harlem

New York: NY Daily News, 1960. Vintage oversize press photograph of Cuban president Fidel Castro and Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev outside the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, on September 20, 1960. Newspaper clipping and stamp of the "National Examiner" on the verso.

During a visit to New York for the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1960, Fidel Castro moved from his luxe hotel in midtown Manhattan to the Hotel Theresa in the then-crumbling, highly segregated neighborhood of Harlem. The move was an astute political maneuver, ensuring media attention would be drawn towards the neighborhood's poor living conditions, urban neglect, and police brutality—and more broadly, towards the blatant racial inequality in America's so-called liberal metropolis. Khrushchev, who had already planned to meet with Castro in hopes of drawing the Cuban leader towards socialism, agreed to meet at the Theresa as a means of symbolically supporting both Cuba and the disenfranchised African Americans of Harlem.

From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.

14 x 11 inches, archivally mounted in a white mat measuring 20 x 16 inches. Very Good plus, with annotations in manuscript ink on the recto, and a slight wave on the right edge and lower corner.

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