Re: [Leica] Alberto Korda dies

["onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>]

Moment of silence here.

Chris Williams


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Subject: [Leica] Alberto Korda dies


> 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.
>
>