Guerrillero Heroico

The image guerrilla Heroico ( " heroic guerrillas " ) shows the revolutionary Che Guevara in a thoughtful pose with a beret on his head and is considered the most famous photographic image of a person. The original version is a photograph by Alberto Korda, which in Havana (Cuba ) was taken on March 5, 1960.

A more familiar version of the photo is a picture, which focuses as a motive only on the face of Che and as a template for the world's best-known version of the photo is: an alienated by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick tri-color version of the image section that is predominantly black / white is used worldwide on a red background as an imprint of t-shirts, banners, posters, button, tattoo design, etc..

The Communist Italian publisher Feltrinelli Giangiacomo brought the image from Cuba and made the first in Europe for dissemination.

Gallery

Guevara Monument at the Cuban Ministry of the Interior

Che Plaza in Bogota

" Guerrilla Heroico " on jacket in combination with the Red Star