Alberto Korda Alberto Korda Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda (September 14, 1928 – May 25, 2001), was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image "Guerrillero Heroico" of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Korda, whose real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, was born on 14 September 1928 in Havana, Cuba. He got his first taste of photography when he took his father's Kodak 35mm and began taking pictures of his girlfriend. Korda was the son of a railway worker, and took many jobs before beginning as a photographer's assistant. Korda began his career as a photographer
Rade Korda some sources, Korda received the rank of Chetnik voivode. In April 1942, the Muslim militia from Bijelo Polje repeatedly attacked forces under Korda; he did not respond to the attacks, in accordance with an order from Major Glišić in Raška (under whose command he was at the time). According to some Yugoslav postwar sources, Korda was not fully under Chetnik control because he fought against Balli Kombetar, Sandžak Muslim militia, partisans and the Chetniks. He controlled several small villages from a headquarters in a cave near a hilltop. Some sources say that Korda opposed to Chetniks' anticommunist policy, and Axis