Cuba By Korda

Author : Alberto Korda,Alessandra Silvestri-Levy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UOM:39015064883872

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Cuba by Korda by Alberto Korda,Alessandra Silvestri-Levy Pdf

"Cuba by Korda is the first publication of the work of the Cuban photographer celebrated for taking the most famous photograph of the 20th century - his iconic portrait of Che Guevara. The photograph - Che gazing into the distance like a prophet - has been reproduced on countless T-shirts and posters around the world." "Originally published in France, this book gives an overview of Korda's extraordinary camerawork, from his first fashion photography to "Don Quixote of the Lamp Post" - a Cuban peasant sitting high above a sea of people during a rally. It includes other striking, sometimes quirky, and lesser-known photographs, such as Fidel Castro warily eyeing a tiger at the Bronx zoo; Che Guevara playing golf; Fidel Castro and Nikita Khruschev throwing snowballs at each other; Hemingway in Cuba; and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in conversation with Che."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alberto Korda
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781644212134

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Cuba by Korda by Alberto Korda Pdf

Cuba's greatest photographer captures the spirit of the Cuban Revolution—and of Cuba itself—in unforgettable images and text. Korda’s photographs and breathtaking reminiscences capture some of the 20th-century’s greatest moments with unprecedented intimacy as no other book ever could or will. In the first weeks of 1959, Korda joined the staff of the newly created daily newspaper of Cuba, Revolución. From that moment on, Korda documented the heady early days of revolutionary Cuba. When Fidel Castro visited the United States in April 1959, Korda went with him. When Castro visited the Soviet Union in 1963 and 1964, Korda was there, documenting intimate moments with Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev’s family and appearing to show the end of the breach that had followed their country’s divergent policies during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. But probably Korda’s greatest moment came on March 5, 1960, during a funeral ceremony for the victims of the sabotaged French freighter La Coubre, a ship carrying arms purchased by the Cuban military. Fidel knew the attack to be the work of America’s CIA. And it altered relations between the two countries forever after. Korda was less than a dozen steps from the platform where Fidel Castro was addressing the crowd of mourners. There were foreign observers present, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Che stepped forward to look over the crowd. Korda shot him through his telephoto lens, even though he was near to him. The result would turn into nothing less than one of the most enduring images of our age, though the picture would not see light of day for another year. It was first published on April 15, 1961, just before the Bay of Pigs invasion, and would only become well known when Che’s Italian publisher Gianfranco Feltrinelli printed thousands of posters of the image shortly after Che’s death.

Author : Alberto Korda,Cristina Vives,Mark Sanders
Publisher : Steidl / Edition7L
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3865214584

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Korda by Alberto Korda,Cristina Vives,Mark Sanders Pdf

This book covers all aspects of Korda's extraordinary career with specific reference to his interest in fashion, the revolution and other features of Cuban society. Starting with his early advertising work from the early 1950s the book traces Korda's entry into the world of fashion and his belief in what he termed an 'aesthetics of beauty'. He explored this idea not only in the sensuous curves of the female form but also in the unique landscape of Cuba as well as within the magnificence of the heroic revolutionary. The book also includes his extensive documentation of Castro and Che. A Revolutionary Lens is a celebration of Korda's belief in beauty and has been edited with full support of Alberto Korda's daughter Diana Diaz of the Korda estate.

Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845138370

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Hero by Michael Korda Pdf

Michael Korda’s Hero is an epic biography of the mysterious,Englishman whose daring exploits made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as ‘Lawrence of Arabia. An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, T.E. Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916 and vanished into the desert in 1917. He united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus, an adventure he recorded in the classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A born leader, utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain and danger, he remained modest, and retiring. Farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer, Lawrence was a visionary whose achievements transcended his time: had his vision for the modern Middle East been carried through, the hatred and bloodshed that have since plagued the region might have prevented. The democratic reforms he would have implemented as British High Commissioner of Egypt, are those the Egyptians are now demanding, 91 years later. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times.

Author : Alberto Korda
Publisher : La fabrica
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 8416248168

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Alberto Korda by Alberto Korda Pdf

This volume in the PHotoBolsillo series reveals some of the lesser-known work of eminent Cuban photographer Alberto Korda (1928-2001), most widely recognized for his studies of Che Guevara. Among the images featured are portraits of female subjects and a series of underwater photographs.

Author : Michael J. Casey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780307807656

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Che's Afterlife by Michael J. Casey Pdf

In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Here Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a copyrighted brand. As Casey follows it across the Americas and through cyberspace, he finds governments exploiting it and their dissenters attacking it, merchants selling it and tourists buying it. We see how this image is, ultimately, a mercurial icon that still ignites passion—and a reflection of how we view ourselves.

Author : Mark Sanders,Richard Gott,Peter Kornbluh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 377573533X

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Cuba in Revolution by Mark Sanders,Richard Gott,Peter Kornbluh Pdf

From the earliest days of the Cuban Revolution, the Revolutionary High Command was intensely aware of the power of the photographic image to advance the ideals of the Revolution, both at home and abroad. 'Cuba in Revolution' captures the complexity and the energy of this moment in all its contradictory beauty.

Author : Osvaldo Salas,Roberto Salas
Publisher : Atria Books/Beyond Words
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1560252456

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Fidel's Cuba by Osvaldo Salas,Roberto Salas Pdf

Fidel’s Cuba commemorates the anniversary of the Cuban leader’s victory with black-and white portraits of great power. With an insider’s intimacy, Osvaldo and Roberto Salas followed Castro from his clean-shaven days to the Sierra Maestra, where he and Che Guevara prepared to lead insurgents to victory. The infamous Bay of Pigs invasion, the only known meeting of Ernest Hemingway and Fidel, and the daily life of the Cuban people are all chronicled here.

Author : Lee Lockwood
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592442799

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Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel by Lee Lockwood Pdf

Author : Patrick Symmes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804172400

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The Day Fidel Died by Patrick Symmes Pdf

Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors to American. The Rolling Stones played in Havana. President Obama arrived too in March. He was the first President to visit the nation almost 100 years—since Coolidge in 1928. And then Fidel Castro passed away in November 2016, marking the end of the momentous era in Cuban history. In The Day Fidel Died, Patrick Symmes interweaves reporting from years spent traveling to the Cuban Island, a narrative history of the rise of Fidelismo and the last sixty-plus years of life there under Fidel. Symmes’ exploration of the Castros’ Cuba—how it came to be and what it’s becoming—paints a wondrous and striking portrait of the nation, its culture, politics and people for anyone first undertaking a trip or those still dreaming of doing so. A Vintage Shorts ebook original.

Author : Nathalie Bondil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215372025

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Cuba by Nathalie Bondil Pdf

This catalog, which accompanied an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, gathers paintings, drawings and photography from Cuba done over the past century and a half. In addition to hundreds of works on paper, it features revealing photographs - some never before published - that record the country's wars of independence and revolution, its utopian endeavors and social realities. Numerous essays explore aspects of the Cuban visual arts such as nineteenth-century landscapes and photojournalism, the burgeoning of the arte nuevo period, Wifredo Lam's seminal African-inspired images, the creation of the famed collective mural, Castro-era poster art and the emergence of a new generation of artists.

Author : Trisha Ziff
Publisher : Abrams Image
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106018613403

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Che Guevara by Trisha Ziff Pdf

Ziff offers a revealing look at the incredibly varied ways a 1960s photo and Che Guevara have been appropriated. The image has become an ideal of abstraction, and this text vividly demonstrates the diverse ways in which it has been used.

Author : Clare Freestone,Ida Kar,Karen Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1855144220

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Ida Kar by Clare Freestone,Ida Kar,Karen Wright Pdf

Published to accompany the exhibition Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 10 March to 19 June 2011-- Verso t.p.

Author : Tim B. Wride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015050797276

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Shifting Tides by Tim B. Wride Pdf

"The prologue gallery provides a context within which to understand the images produced after the revolution. Included in the prologue are examples of the iconic photographs made by important photographers of the revolution s military struggle, such as Korda and Osvaldo Salas. These images reflect the heroic personalities of the revolution and establish a baseline from which three generational shifts in the conception and uses of photography can be traced.".

Author : Che Guevara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : UOM:39015062535540

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Self Portrait Che Guevara by Che Guevara Pdf

An intimate look at the man behind the icon, from the Guevara family's private archives. Includes extraordinary unpublished short stories and poems written to his wife and children as well as photos from the Guevara family album, showing a surprisingly sensitive and artistic side to the legendary revolutionary. Che's self-portrait photography are a key feature of the selection, presented alongside other material finally released for publication from his family's archives.