Alberto Korda
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Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda, was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
Alberto Korda: Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico, March 5, 1960.
Korda's film roll from March 5, 1960, when he took his famous Guerrillero Heroico photo of Che Guevara. Philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are also pictured, along with Fidel Castro.
Gravesite of Alberto Korda
In March 2010, an original proof of this 1960 Korda photo of Che Guevara fishing with Fidel Castro, sold at auction for £ 6,600.
Fidel Castro
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008,
Alberto Korda
…aim was to meet women", he once confessed. His second wife, Natalia (Norka) Menéndez, was a well known Cuban fashion model. The relationship between Fidel Castro and Korda could not be defined by one label or title. For Castro, Korda was more than an official photographer, a friend or personal photographer. They…
Castro in 1979
Fidel's parents, Ángel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz González
Castro, second from left, at Colegio de Belén, Havana, 1943
General Fulgencio Batista—left, with US Army Chief of Staff Malin Craig, in Washington D.C. in 1938—whose presidency Castro intended to overthrow.