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).
Jorge Masetti
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Jorge José Ricardo Masetti Blanco, also known as "Commander Segundo", was an Argentinean journalist and guerrilla leader. Born in Avellaneda, Masetti entered the jungle at Salta and after 21 April 196
Guerrillero Heroico
…appearance. The classic picture appears on frame number 40 shot horizontally. The first photograph had Guevara framed alone between the silhouette of Jorge Masetti and a palm tree; the second with someone's head appearing above his shoulder. The first picture, with the intruding material cropped out and the image…
Masetti (right) with Che Guevara (left)