Appearances of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in popular culture are common throughout the world. During his lifetime he was a highly politicized and controversial figure, in death his st
Che Guevara Guerrillero Heroico by Alberto Korda
A Cuban restaurant in Riga, Latvia.
A large Che statue in Oleiros, Spain.
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Guerrillero Heroico is a photograph of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda. It was captured on 5 March 1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre
Che Guevara in popular culture
…commonly he is represented by a facial caricature originally by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick and based on Alberto Korda's famous 1960 photograph titled Guerrillero Heroico. The evocative simulacra abbreviation of the photographic portrait allowed for easy reproduction and instant recognizability across various uses. For…
The original image, from which the popularized portrait was derived. By cropping out a palm tree and the profile of Jorge Masetti, increasing the contrast, and making other slight adjustments, Korda gave Guevara's image "an ageless quality, divorced from the specifics of time and place."
Che Guevara (third from left) and Fidel Castro (far left) marching to Colón Cemetery.
Korda's film contact sheet. Guerrillero Heroico appears on the fourth row down, third picture over (shot horizontally).