Color Photograph by Manuel Larrañaga Sardiñas: Piano Azul

Glossy blue car fills the frame, chrome teeth glinting before a gray skyline.

This color photograph is by Piano Azul, from Cuba, and is contemporary. It is pigment on paper. Colour photographs of Cuba often turn to the painted facades and faded pastels of Havana's buildings, a subject many photographers have returned to again and again. Color photograph of a bright blue car with a long hood and a broad chrome grille, taken from low in front. Dark trees and stately buildings behind it fade to gray. A penciled title and signature sit on the pale blue-white mat. It is 10 inches wide and 8 high.

Blue so sure of itself it makes the sky look gray.