Alberto Korda

La extraordinaria carrera del fotógrafo de la Revolución. Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, para todos Korda, es internacionalmente reconocido como uno de los maestros de la fotografía cubana de la Revolución, cuyas imagenes del Che Guevara y Fidel Castro inspieraron a generaciones de jovenes a lo largo de los años sesenta y setenta. Su fotografia mas famosa es, sin duda, el retrato del Che tomado en 1960 y titulado Guerrillero Heroico, que sin duda se ha convertido en la imagen mas reproducida de la historia de la fotografia.Alberto Korda: Conocido Desconocido es un libro que recorre todas las facetas de la extraordinario carrera de Korda, con especial enfasis en la moda, la Revolucion y otros temas de la sociedad cubana. Desde los primeros trabajos publicitarios a inicio de la decada de los cincuenta, seguimos la entrada de Korda en el mundo de la moda y su pasion por lo que el definio como "una estetica de la belleza", que percibio no solo en las sensuales curvas femeninas, sino ademas en el particular paisaje cubano y en el esplendor de los revolucionarios cubanos.

Cubas greatest photographer captures the spirit of the Cuban Revolutionand of Cuba itselfin unforgettable images and text.Kordas photographs and breathtaking reminiscences capture some of the 20th-centurys greatest moments with unprecedented intimacy as no other book ever could or will. In the first weeks of 1959, Korda joined the staff of the newly created daily newspaper of Cuba, Revolucion. From that moment on, Korda documented the heady early days of revolutionary Cuba. When Fidel Castro visited the United States in April 1959, Korda went with him. When Castro visited the Soviet Union in 1963 and 1964, Korda was there, documenting intimate moments with Soviet leader Nikita Kruschevs family and appearing to show the end of the breach that had followed their countrys divergent policies during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. But probably Kordas greatest moment came on March 5, 1960, during a funeral ceremony for the victims of the sabotaged French freighter La Coubre, a ship carrying arms purchased by the Cuban military. Fidel knew the attack to be the work of Americas CIA. And it altered relations between the two countries forever after. Korda was less than a dozen steps from the platform where Fidel Castro was addressing the crowd of mourners. There were foreign observers present, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Che stepped forward to look over the crowd. Korda shot him through his telephoto lens, even though he was near to him. The result would turn into nothing less than one of the most enduring images of our age, though the picture would not see light of day for another year. It was first published on April 15, 1961, just before the Bay of Pigs invasion, and would only become well known when Ches Italian publisher Gianfranco Feltrinelli printed thousands of posters of the image shortly after Ches death.

Monográfico sobre uno de los fotógrafos latinoamericanos míticos: Alberto Korda. Figura cardinal del arte cubano, Korda es mucho más que el autor de esa famosa fotografía del Che Guevara reproducida infinitas veces en todas partes del mundo.