1963 -- The penetrating gaze of the Che Guevara captured by Rene Burri, Havana, Cuba -- 51 years ago, photographer René Burri traveled to Cuba alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson in the hope of tracking down Che Guevara. Within minutes of meeting Guevara in his office on the eighth floor of the Hotel Riviera, a furious ideological dogfight broke out between the Cuban rebel leader and Laura Bergquist, the journalist with whom Burri was working. He didn’t look at me once... Burri said, but that didn’t stop him seizing upon what he called an incredible opportunity to shoot Che in all kinds of situations: smiling, furious, from the back, from the front. This famed image of Guevara you see here was snatched by Burri as Guevara sat back in his seat after lighting a big Havana.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:50:34 +0000
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