Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/27
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Luggers, Leggers, Ruggers, & LFRers,
This is from the Sunday New York Times.
Alberto Korda, the Cuban photographer whose 1960 image of Che Guevara
became an icon for would-be revolutionaries, died Friday in France. He was
72.
His daughter, Norka Korda, said in Havana her father had a heart attack
and died in Paris, where his work was being exhibited.
The shot of Guevara staring defiantly from under his black one starred
beret was taken on March 5,1960 at a funeral rally for 136 people killed in
a boat explosion for which Cuba blames the United States.
The photograph was rejected for publication by Mr. Korda's newspaper,
"Revolucion," and it remained unknown until Mr. Korda gave a copy to an
Italian visitor in 1967. Mr. Korda never received any royalties but the
photo made its way around the world.
In recent years, Mr. Korda began to fight the photo's commercial
reproduction in ways he said "dishonored" his subject.