Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/20
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Kordas famous photo of Che Guvera was used by an Italian to
make shirts, posters and flags around the road for every revolution. Korda
got nothing. He was not part of an agency like Magnum. He never left Cuba.
He had no way to market around the world. As a reuslt he lived a very modest
life with a wealth of historic material. So sad!
Kevin
On Dec 20, 2014, at 9:17 PM, Howard Ritter wrote:
> A perplexing part of this account is why a man as sophisticated as
> Castro?s personal photographer presumably ought to have been would have
> been willing to sell these negatives for $20 as recently as 20 years ago.
> Surely, even isolated in Cuba, he would have intuited something of their
> potential worth, and Cubans did have contact with many western nations.
> Wouldn?t it have been possible for him to offer them to a responsible
> foreigner for sale or consignment?
>
> ?howard
>
>
>> On Dec 20, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Kevin Argue <kargue at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Check out the story in todays Daily Mail about missing negs on Cuba from
>> a man in Toronto.
>>
>>
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2881924/Incredibly-rare-pictures-Fidel-Castro-taken-photographer-iconic-Che-Guevara-image-uncovered-Toronto-flat.html
>>
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>> Kevin
>
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