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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