November 22, 2009
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Guerrilla Photographer

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May/June 2000
By Gary Bridgman, Gadfly (www.gadfly.org) 
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Following Che's death, Feltrinelli turned the photo into a poster, and the image began to spread. Even today, it adorns dormitory walls, T-shirts, key chains, and other items around the world.

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Korda took other pictures of Che and Castro in the '50s and '60s, including a 1959 shot of the pair playing golf. Cuba was once famous for its golf courses-before Castro had all but one of the "bastions of capitalist decadence" bulldozed. Castro didn't hate the game itself, however, and this photo captures them at the Country Club of Havana just before its course was dismantled. According to Korda, the highly competitive Castro won the game, though the two spent much of the match discussing Cuban politics.

Inspired by her longtime fascination with Cuba, American photographer Milly Moorhead keeps her Southside Gallery in Oxford, Mississippi, stocked with signed prints of revolutionary-era Cuban photographs, including Korda's, and has received death threats because of them. Moorhead periodically visits Korda, taking a supply of photographic paper and developing chemicals with her, because they are scarce in Cuba. She visits with Korda's family in his home while he develops new prints from his fragile negatives and later signs the remarkable images in his unmistakable scrawl.

Gary Bridgman lives, writes, and drives a limousine in Oxford, Mississippi. To contact Southside Gallery, call 662/234-9090. From Gadfly (Jan./Feb. 2000). Subscriptions: $19.95/yr. (6 issues) from Box 7926, Charlottesville, VA 22906.

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