Exhibition in London confirms the image of Che as a gold mine
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London / Havana, June 13. The image of Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine-Cuban revolutionary who died in 1967 in its attempt to bring the revolution to Bolivia, since it became a gold mine, which helps to sell condoms from lenses to confirm a statement in London .
Entitled Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon, the exhibition opened in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and will conclude in late August, focuses on the photo of Che taken by the Cuban Alberto Diaz Korda in 1960.
Heroic Guerrilla, the Che Guevara image with a beret and dreamy gaze, which was taken by Korda in the assistance of the then Minister of Industry to the funeral of more than one hundred Cubans killed as a result of the explosion of a Belgian ship in the port of Havana, is the most widely reproduced photo in the world, said Trisha Ziff, curator of the exhibition.
Using posters, films, clothes and objects of art and commercial photography and inspired by this from over 30 countries, the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one of the applied arts of the world's major-account "narrative "Icon of the universal.
Commemoration in Cuba
Moreover, Cuba is commemorating the 78 anniversary of the birth of Ernesto Guevara, who met Wednesday with the presentation of multimedia Che, a citizen of the world and a book of unpublished memos revolutionary.
The digital format, submitted on Tuesday and that compiles a series of texts, images, audios and videos, was conducted by the Che Guevara Studies Center in conjunction with the University of Science "to promote the life and work "of the legendary guerrilla.
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