Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Guerrillero Heroico ('Heroic Guerrilla')


Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, wearing a black beret and with an expression described as 'absolute implacability as well as anger and pain' is shown in this famous photograph taken by Alberto Korda on March 5, 1960. and it's entitled 'Guerrillero Heroico' (Heroic Guerrilla).

Guevara, 31 years old at that time, was attending a funeral in Havana, Cuba, for victims of an explosion at the town of La Coubre. The photo was actually published seven years later, and is now considered to be one of the ten greatest photographic portraits of all time. It has become a universal symbol of rebellion for human rights against social injustice.

The Art Institute of Maryland (USA) has called it ‘the most famous photo and graphic icon of the twentieth century’, and London's Victoria & Albert Museum has stated that the photograph has been reproduced in every conceivable form more than any other image in photographic history.

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