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Photo De Che Guevara « Guerrillero Heróico » Alberto Korda (Sources : Wikipedia ) Photo de Che Guevara « guerrillero heróico » Alberto Korda (Sources : Wikipedia ) Guerrillero Heroico est un portrait photographique de Ernesto Che Guevara réalisé par Alberto Korda le 05/05/1960 , alors qu il assistait à l ' enterrement des victimes de l ' explosion de la Coubre ( Le cargo français La Coubre explosa par deux fois le 4 mars 1960, alors qu'il déchargeait des munitions belges dans le port de La Havane à Cuba. L'explosion fit au moins 75 morts et 200 blessés. Le gouvernement cubain accusa la CIA et condamna à mort William Alexander Morgan alors que les États-Unis penchaient pour la thèse d'un accident. ) C est une des photos les plus célèbres au monde . Alberto Korda donna cette photographie à l'éditeur italien Gianfranco Feltrinelli qui lui fit faire le tour du monde avec des centaines de posters et des couvertures de carnets après la mort du Che en 1967. L'année suivante, Andy Warhol en fait un tableau qui devient une icône artistique et commerciale. Korda, révolutionnaire convaincu, ne toucha pas un centime et ne réclama jamais aucun droit d'auteur jusqu'en 1990, quand la société Smirnoff a repris l'image de Guevara pour vendre de la vodka1. Korda était photographe pour le journal cubain Revolución le 6 mars 1960 quand il prit le fameux cliché . Korda raconta ainsi l'instant historique : « Je me trouvais à quelque dix-huit mètres de la tribune où Fidel prononçait un discours et je tenais à la main un appareil muni d'un court téléobjectif, lorsque je vis le Che s'approcher de la balustrade près de laquelle se tenaient Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir. » 1 « Moi, je mitraille systématiquement tous ceux qui entourent Fidel. J'ai l'œil vissé sur le viseur de mon vieux Leica. Soudain surgit du fond de la tribune, dans un espace vide, le Che. Il a une expression farouche. Quand il est apparu, au bout de mon objectif de 90 mm, j'ai eu presque peur en voyant la rage qu'il exprimait. Il était peut-être ému, furieux, je ne sais pas. J'ai appuyé aussitôt sur le déclic, presque par réflexe. Et j'ai "doublé" la prise mais, comme toujours, c'est la première qui était la meilleure. Il n'est resté que quelques instants et je n'ai pris que ces deux uniques photos. Elles ne sont d'ailleurs pas d'une netteté extraordinaire parce que je n'ai pas eu le temps de faire une bonne mise au point. »2 Dès qu'il développe la photo en arrivant au journal, Korda pense que c'est une bonne photo : « On sent dans son regard une grande colère concentrée, une force extraordinaire dans son expression. » Cependant Revolución ne la publie pas1. C'est pendant l'été 1967 que l'éditeur italien Giangiacomo Feltrinelli débarque dans le studio de Korda. Il cherche des photos du Che et Korda lui remet la fameuse photo. « En octobre le Che meurt et Feltrinelli imprime ma photo sur une affiche de un mètre sur 70 centimètres. On dit qu'il vendit un million d'exemplaires en six mois. »1 C'est ensuite cette photo qui est reprise dans les manifestations, les affiches, pour illustrer la plupart des publications. Che Guevara Ernesto Guevara1 (né le 14 juin 1928 à Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentine – mort le 9 octobre 1967 à La Higuera, Bolivie), plus connu sous le nom de Che Guevara ou le Che , est un révolutionnaire marxiste et internationaliste ainsi qu'un homme politique d'Amérique latine. Il a notamment été un dirigeant de la révolution cubaine, qu'il a théorisée et tenté d'exporter vers d'autres pays. Alors qu'il est jeune étudiant en médecine, Guevara voyage à travers l'Amérique latine, ce qui le met en contact direct avec la pauvreté dans laquelle vit une grande partie de la population. Son expérience et ses observations l'amènent à la conclusion que les inégalités socioéconomiques ne peuvent être abolies que par la révolution. Avec Fidel Castro , il participera à une guerrilla de deux ans qui viendra à bout de la dictature de Batista à Cuba en 1959 . Par la suite , il jouera un rôle prépondérant dans le gouvernement de Fidel Castro , avant de partir de Cuba , en 1965 vers l « Afrique et L ' Amérique latine , dans le but d ' exporter ses idées révolutionnaires . Il sera arrêté en Bolivie par l ' armée , puis exécuté , en 1967 . Après sa mort, Che Guevara devient une icône pour des mouvements révolutionnaires du monde entier, mais demeure toujours l'objet de controverses entre historiens, notamment à cause de témoignages sur de possibles exécutions d'innocents Cette photo rend hommage au révolutionnaire , à l ' homme qui a lutté pour une plus grande justice sociale . En révolutionnaire convaincu , Korda a voulu contribuer à ce que le nom de Che Guevara s inscrive dans la mémoire collective . L’auteur : Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, plus connu sous le nom d’ Alberto Korda (1928-2001), est un photographe cubain renommé pour son cliché mondialement connu de Che Guevara, le « Guerrillero Heroico ». Jeune, il achète un appareil photo dans un mont-de-piété. Il pense que la photo est un bon moyen pour « attirer les jolies filles » ! Dans les années 1950, il ouvre un studio et se fait appeler Korda. « J’ai surtout adopté ce nom en raison de son affinité phonétique avec Kodak, la marque la plus réputée à l’époque. » Il acquiert une renommée internationale en utilisant la lumière naturelle pour réaliser desphotos de mode et de modèles. Après la révolution cubaine, Korda devint le photographe personnel de Fidel Castro pendant dix ans. .
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