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An interview with Alberto Korda

Volland: How did you make the Che Photograph?

Korda: I took the picture during the commemoration of the sabotage incident on the freighter ‘La Cubre’ in the harbor of Havana. As a reminder: On March 5^th 1960 there was a memorial service. I was working as a photo reporter for the daily paper ‘Revolucion’, ‘Movement of July 26^th’. Afterwards I went to my photo lab, developed the film and made the contact sheets and saw that the pictures had turned out well, those of Che, too.  During the memorial service Fidel Castro gave the eulogy and sitting at the back were the intellectuals Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Bouvoir, to whom I said hello. My picture of Fidel Castro was on the cover the next day, as well as many other pictures of prominent guests… weiter lesen