Sepia Photograph by Eduardo & Orlando Garcia: Untitled, From Angels of Havana Series, 2005

A statue on a newel post watches over a flight of steps and twin columns.

This sepia photograph is from Cuba, and is contemporary. It is pigment on paper. Sepia toning gives a photograph a warm brown color, a look that echoes early prints and was originally made with a chemical bath. Sepia photograph of a stair with a cast ornamental railing, a robed figure on a post at the left and a second pale figure beyond. Peeling wall and two tall columns rise at right, edges ragged and stained. It is 8 inches wide and 12 high.

The staircase is grand, though the plaster would like a word.