Che GUEVARA Cuban Revolutionary Photo signed and stamped by famous Alberto KORDA

Description

The famous image of Che Guevara by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, best known as Korda. The photo was made for an exhibition in 1991 from the original negative.  The photo is signed by Korda using both of his names and his personal stamp is embossed on the photo.  Korda took the photo in 1960.  There have been many reproductions of this image but this photo was created by Korda and is dated by him.
The photo is in its original double mat.  The photo is 8" X 6".  The mat size is 14" X 12 1/2".
The photo was bought in NY at the Phillips Auction House, the price was ,700.
Alberto Korda
was a Cuban photographer best known for his iconic image of Che Guevara. “There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through,” he once said of the image. Born Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez on September 14, 1928 in Havana, Cuba, he began working as a photographer’s assistant as a young man and later for the newspaper
Revolución
. In 1960, while working on assignment, Korda took the famous photo of Guevara at a protest rally, after a Belgian freighter, carrying arms to Cuba, was blown up by counterrevolutionaries. Later in his career, he worked as Fidel Castro's official photographer, often humanizing the revolutionary leader's image by depicting him at ease with friends such as
Ernest Hemmingway
. Korda died on May 25, 2001 in Paris, France, while visiting for an exhibition of his work. Today, the photographer’s works are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, and the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, among others.