Photography History

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The late Cuban photographer Alberto Korda’s Leica camera has been sold at auction for $20,340. What’s notable about this camera is that it’s very likely the one that captured Korda’s iconic portrait of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara Korda’s camera was being sold by his son Dante Diaz Korda.“This camera was one of the favorite cameras of my father,” Dante writes in the auction description. “My father actively used this camera in the fifties and sixties and kept it the rest of his life”. “That’s why it’s likely that my father took with this camera one of the world’s most famous photo’s ever made. The iconic image of the freedom fighter Che Guevara.”