Osvaldo Salas: A Cuban in Cooperstown

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 1 (acn) The work of artist Osvaldo Salas is present at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

At the beginning of spring this year, the New York Museum inaugurated an exhibition by the Cuban photographer, which will be opened to the public until May, 2015. Fifty images by the artist bear witness of the development of the idols that were predominant in U.S. baseball in the 1950's, the Granma newspaper reported this week.

This series in just part of the over 900 stills registered by Salas in his baseball adventures and currently preserved by the museum. Such valuable fund was donated by collector Rick Swig, who was present with the photographer's son during the opening of the exhibition -notable artist Roberto Salas- along with Lourdes Socarras, former director of Cuba's Photographic Library, and Jenny Ambrose, curator of the exhibition.

Salas had settled from an early age in New York. He was attracted by photography, but he could only make his dream come true in the 1940's, after having other jobs to support his family. He opened a studio in 50th Street Manhattan, and soon also devoted himself to press photography.

He returned to Cuba after the revolutionary triumph of 1959.