Color Photograph by Manuel Larrañaga Sardiñas: Mecanico, Framed

Powder blue car with its hood up, and a man vanishing into the engine.

This framed color photograph is from Cuba, and is contemporary. It is pigment on paper. Pigment prints are made with pigment-based inks on paper, a process generally chosen for stable colour and fine tonal detail in contemporary photography. Portrait-format color photograph of a light blue car on a sunlit street of yellow and green building fronts. The hood is raised, and a person leans deep into the engine, his legs showing. A yellow plate sits low on the bumper. It is 12 inches wide and 13.5 high.

Optimism, a wrench and one pair of dangling legs.