Guerrillero Heroico
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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
Alberto Korda's photograph of Che Guevara
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).
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.
Guerrillero Heroico
…Guerrillero Heroico (Latin American Spanish: ; "Heroic Guerrilla Fighter") 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 explosion. By the end of the 1960s, the image…
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.