Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/04

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Subject: Re: Comrade Che: Leica Subject
From: Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:20:10 +0100

I'm a little confused. It was in Nikon News, about 15 y ago. They showed
several contact prints, and said that they were taken with a Nikon.

Alf

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At 15:00 03.11.1997 -0500, you wrote:
>Per the Outlook Section of yesterday's WASHINGTON PEST, the well-known
>picture of Che Guevera, the one those of us of a certain age came to know
>and detest from its being waved in our faces across the quadrangles of
>American colleges in the Spring of '70, the one where Che is staring off
>whimisically in the distance, was shot by a Cuban photographer with the
>tradename of 'Korda' (!) and, of course, was shot with his Party-Approved
>Leica.
>
>Marc