Cuban revolution

Dickey Chapelle was already a famed war correspondent when she got an assignment to cover the charismatic leader of a revolution.

Fidel Castro's triumphant entry to Havana, Cuban Revolution

Back row, from left: Raul Castro, Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque and Ramiro Valdes. (AFP/Getty Images / January 1, 1959)

Castro (right) with fellow revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos entering Havana on January 8, 1959

In Castro's Cuba, a compilation of photographs and text by the late Lee Lockwood, including hundreds of previously unpublished and all gorgeously produced photographs from 1959 to 1969, Lockwood photographs Fidel himself, and people who are looking at, touching and photographing Fidel. He also photographs the photographs and other images of Fidel that proliferate before his lens as the years wear on, before this omnipresent iconography of Fidel had begun to vanish from the Cuban street.

Symbols of the Cuban revolution, seen at every corner....

Cuba

Cuban soldiers march through Havana's Revolution Square to mark the 50th anniversary celebration of the forming of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces December 2, 2006 in Havana, Cuba. Many in the crowd were hoping to catch a glimpse of Cuban President Fidel Castro who did not attend the parade. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)