Internet collect 200 variants of the most famous picture of Che Guevara
The Mexican editor Ignacio Villarreal took the 80th anniversary of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who is being held today to launch a website that collects 200 images based on the famous photograph taken by the Cuban guerrilla Alberto Korda.
"It's the most famous picture of all time, the most reproduced of the twentieth century," said Villareal, afiChe.org creator and publisher of an art journal online.
The images come from many different countries and in them you can see Che's face with various changes in the background, the colors, the closeness and attire, mainly.
Some of them preferred by the creator of the website, are covers of books about the revolutionary figure, and other posters are from.
A quarter of the images collected were obtained by the Mexican editor with the collaboration of EFE. Most of the images collected from Latin.
The portrait of Che is the work of Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez (1929-2001), better known as Alberto Korda, official photographer of the President of Cuba Fidel Castro.
It was taken the day that the staff of the Castro Revolution in Havana attended the funeral for the victims of the bombing of the ship La Coubre, in May 1960.
"Korda saved it because neither wanted to publish his newspaper Revolution," said Villareal on photography, which has become a symbol of revolution.
Later, the photographer gave two copies to an Italian publisher who popularized on posters and rights reserved.
"He has not been done justice to Korda, not been given due credit," lamented the creator of the website.
"For Che is more our" settled Villareal, which aims to increase the number of images with the help of Internet.
On the web afiChe.org reads: "We want to know who the creators of these designs (photo of Che) circulating on the Internet. We want your permission to post here the author's name, date and place where it was created.
Also invites authors to write designs to the web to tell how they managed designs.
The editor does not believe that marketing has been done with the Korda photo of you subtract one iota of value to the character or the photo, are simply "occurrences".
Villareal stressed that its purpose is purely artistic and has no intention of provoking an ideological debate about Che.
Ernesto Che Guevara, born in Rosario (Argentina) in 1928, joined the cause of the Cuban revolution in 1956, and died in October 1967 in the highlands of Bolivia after being taken prisoner in an ambush of the Army.
Via El Universal
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