Exhibit works ‘Korda’ photographer “Che” Guevara [VIDEO] | The … – Trade

Monday June 1, 2015 | 14:41

A perhaps unknown side Cuban photographer Alberto Diaz Gutierrez (1928-2001) of, better known as “Korda” appears in the walls of the Cerralbo Museum in Madrid as part of the programming PhotoEspaña2015.

Korda, who came to international fame for his iconic photograph of the guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara , now displays his collection “Female Portrait” where photographer explores the beauty and delicacy of women.

This is sixty portraits in black and white, many of them exhibited for the first time this unknown facet where discovered, although central, in the career of Korda.

Start by portraits he did as “amateur” Julia Lopez, the second of his three wives, images shown for the first time.

From 1954, created with Luis Pierce Byers a study devoted to the advertising photography. “He works having to do with women was reserved. He worked with professional or women in the street, as Nidia Ríos, whose beauty captivated him.”

Between 1956 and 1963 portrayed Norka, professional model who became his third wife. They produced elegant portraits that eliminated elements and the influence of Irving Penn and Richard Avedonn appreciated.

Despite being a fashion photographer “or precisely because of that,” in 1959 he was called to photograph the Cuban revolution. “Korda simply replace their models for the new leaders, maintaining that image based on the information aesthetics, but at the same time, symbolic of the commercial photography”.

Simultaneous poor photography study trips with Fidel Castro. “Went outside and photographed the leaders while the beautiful faces of guerrilla, peasant or spectators of the parade”.

In this exhibition in collaboration with Diana Diaz, daughter of the photographer has been instrumental . For her, her father was a transgressor “that everything he did was watched very closely”.

Diana recalled that in 1968 the studio Korda was involved and all negative and equipment confiscated and taken to missing.

The only negative that were recovered were those related to the revolution, preserved in the archives of Historical Affairs. The rest “can be somewhere not lose hope that they are’ve written many letters, but not have answered..”

Source:. EFE