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Images of Cuban leaders captured by Korda, sold in the UK .- The iconic portrait of Che is 50 years old

COUNTRY / EFE - Madrid / La Habana - 05/03/2010


Fidel Castro and Che Guevara playing golf, fishing, chatting with intellectual ... lot of images of everyday life of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, captured by the lens of photographer Alberto Korda, has been sold at Dominic Winter Auctioneers auction in the town of Cirencester (United Kingdom, for a total of 35,240 euros , reports the BBC. are 14 black and white images taken between 1959 and the dawn of the sixties. have been sold to different buyers. In particular the image of Che fishing was acquired by a private collector based in the UK, who has spent a total of 20,000 euros. Also been made with a photo of Fidel Castro playing golf, which has paid 3,700 euros. Sources

the auction house have assured the BBC that the sale has sparked much excitement to the point of being "swamped" with phone calls from collectors all over Europe.
Fifty years of an icon

Today marks 50 years of the day the Cuban photographer took a closeup of Che with his beret and guerrilla disheveled hair, one of the most reproduced images, venerated and marketed the twentieth century . On 5 March 1960, Che, decreed "Cuban-born" by his comrade in arms Fidel Castro, attended with other leaders of the revolution newborn's funeral nearly 100 victims of the attack he suffered yesterday in the port of Havana the French steamer La Coubre, loaded with weapons.

recalls Cuban press today was a gray day and winter (in the Caribbean means that the maximum did not exceed 20 degrees) and Korda (1928-001) did not realize at first that his Leik had captured an image to traverse the planet in book covers, political signs, building facades or fashion shirts. The now former President Fidel Castro released that day, for the first time, his equally famous "Patria o Muerte", perched on a platform in which he led a rousing speech to thousands of mourners-maniestación, with Che in the background. About Argentine

were French intellectuals Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauboir, who pursued Korda, photographer for the newspaper Revolution, with the roll of film to the point of completion and a 90 mm lens. According count after Korda, Guevara had a look so intense that it disturbed for a moment, but not enough to avoid to take two snapshots immediately, a vertical, horizontal the other, before Che disappeared again after the characters the first row.

The picture "was not conceived, was intuited" Korda also said, quoted by the press in Havana, and then said rounded in the laboratory work to highlight the eyes, cutting the left side of the horizontal jack profile another person and the right of tropical palm inevitable.

Korda did not charge a penny for its most widely portrait, although the Italian businessman who played that first poster in a few months sold a million copies, without mentioning the photographer but if the copyright to his publisher. The height of the marketing of Che's picture led the author to claim in 2000 to the producer of Smirnoff vodka that the used for an advertising campaign. Korda, who was then 72 years and died a year later won the lawsuit on Smirnoff and $ 60,000.

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More than 35,000 euros for the pictures of the revolution in Cuba

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In 2008 I found in a fence in the Condesa the remains of one of these posters ... recognized immediately to the character image as part of a known photograph Javier Hinojosa made between 1985-1986. Who was the author of this reminiscence? And why circulating again five years after the death of the aforementioned?. It took me about 8 months to make with the author, Mr. Fly, who sat down for coffee at Isabel La Católica, in the Historic Center ... Right in Melquiadesco territory.
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been over a year since I began to proliferate this colorful portrait of various fences and stands in Mexico City. Will the egg racks which he framed glasses improvised what intrigues? Many have wondered who is this character? the most daring have dared to ask if by chance it is Joe the apothecary or perhaps Huicho Domínguez, even though he hardly would be correct ... The funny thing is that far from resembling the above, Share with them your character somehow a deep interest in the "popular" culture, in a very different, for it meant the mood building a powerful vehicle, a weapon master knowledge and production.
His name is Melquiades Herrera (Mexico City from 1949 to 2003), an artistic producer of a rare authenticity understand the act of walking through the city as one of the greatest potential to understand the world: you have to walk when not may be doing nothing, he said. Melquiades was a type of intelligence and enviable simplicity was part of one of the groups more proactive and caustic transition of the 70's to 80 (the Non-Group) and then continue his creative process individually. A Melquiades is often pigeonholed as a performance artist and although it is certainly a core of action art presence in Mexico, it is also true that his "work" implies some scope for writing in a couple of national newspapers, produced art-object took actions to the video camera, set up a large collection of unusual objects found in street markets, defended the teaching as part of that creative process ... narrow error margins would be a producer as he understood that just the act of walking-make urban drift, as part of her artistic work. They say that constantly broke Melquiades traditional formats for example, led some students to a kind of gastronomic tour through the historic center and its surroundings by choosing the sites for the particularity of the dishes or under the premise of "how to eat to less than 10 pesos extraordinary things ... More than one person came to see taking the briefcase samsonite, which always accompanied him, a brown paper bag with a rotisserie chicken or a piece of crackling able to improvise an act sonorogastronómico.

His remark was extremely acute, achieved surprising relationships from an object daily thoughts he detonated complex, was able to break down a litany of considerations from the container of a popular soft drink, a decal of using the trucks, through a plastic figurine of Memin Pinguin or mask Hermelinda cute. As in the "lenses" that appear in the image of the poster, could flip the tortilla Melquiades functionality and meaning of a particular object set to build and show us many new possibilities from it. Sol

Henaro,
Barcelona, \u200b\u200bDecember 2009