Luis Korda Díaz acted primarily as photographer and travel companion of Fidel Castro, with whom he had a close relationship, and also Ernesto Guevara, whom he saw as rather arrogant – a personal view he shared with many other photographers. Luis Korda’s most famous image is also the most important photo of the Cuban revolution, showing the revolutionaries entering Havana on 8 January 1959 with Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos at the head of the procession. The fear that Studio Korda, a privately held company, could fall victim to nationalisation, drove Alberto Diaz and Luis Peirce to bequeath it to the Oficina
Alexander Korda hit with "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933), which he directed. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, established Korda internationally and made a star of Charles Laughton. Korda followed it with "The Girl from Maxim's" (1933) which he shot in English and French. He tried to repeat the success of "Henry" with "The Private Life of Don Juan" (1934) starring Douglas Fairbanks, which he directed, and "The Rise of Catherine the Great" (1934) which he did not. Neither did as well as "Henry". Korda produced a well respected short, "The Private Life of the Gannets"