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
Dezső Korda Dezső Korda Dezső Korda () (8 January 1864 – 1 April 1919) was a mechanical engineer born in Kisbér, Hungary. Korda finished his education in 1885 at the Budapest, in "Royal Joseph Technical University" (present-day Budapest University of Technology and Economics). After that he worked as electrical engineer in France and Switzerland. During the First World War Korda was a lecturer at ETH Zurich for wireless telegraphy and high frequency machines. He invented the variable capacitor with air dielectric, and received in Germany a patent for invention on 13 December 1893. He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in