Rene Burri, photographer of El Ché, dies at 81. - TopicsExpress



          

Rene Burri, photographer of El Ché, dies at 81. The Swiss photographer covered major conflicts since the 50s with Magnum. Rene Burri, the Swiss photographer who took the iconic image of Ernesto “Che” Guevara with a cigar, looking nowhere in particular, died at 81, after a lengthy bout with an unidentified disease, according to the Magnum photo agency. Burri, who died in Zurich, worked with the agency since 1959. He then went to cover the Korean war, the Cuban revolution and the Vietnam war. In Cuba, he also photographed Fidel Castro.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 01:10:15 +0000

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