Cuban art a photograph of Ché Guevara taken by Alberto Korda (b. Havana, 1928 – d. Paris, 2001). The candid shot of a moody, exhausted Guevara, taken in March, 1960 at a memorial service for victims of an ammunition ship explosion in Havana Harbor, became one of the world's most iconic images. It was eventually altered and adapted for everything from gum wrappers to a 90 ft. tall commemorative iron sculpture in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución. Korda was a popular fashion photographer who became a devoted revolutionary and close companion of Fidel Castro, taking thousands of shots of Castro's travels and
Luis Korda changed the name of the company to "Studios Korda". The members of the "Korda Studios" community distinguished themselves through the variety of the commissions and reporting taken on by the individual artists, a fact demonstrated by the neutral but ever-changing studio stamp which appears on the back of each of the prints. Luis was a distinguished photographer, and above all was very technically gifted. However, he was not a gifted businessman, and thus he showed no particular drive to gain commissions. It can be assumed that the majority of the output of the studio came from his partner, Alberto. Alberto