Image Title: Guerrillero Heroico
Photographer: Alberto Korda
Date: 5 March, 1960
This famous portrait of Cuban revolutionist Ernesto Che Guevara was taken by photographer Alberto Korda at a memorial service in Havana, Cuba.
One of the most recognised visual profiles in the world, flaunted on t-shirts, record covers, restaurant walls, glossy advertisements and internet sites, the portrait is called the symbol of the 20th century by Maryland Institute College of Art. Che's face represents the charisma, daring, rebellion, resistance, death and caricatured resurrection.
Korda, who took the picture, said he was drawn to Guevara's facial expression, which showed 'absolute implacability' as well as anger and pain in his face.
