The great, omnipotent photographer Alberto Korda is shown above with his daughter Norda. Mr. Korda died in 2001 at age 72. For ten years he traveled everywhere with Fidel Castro as Fidel's official photographer, taking history's most famous photos of both Fidel and Che Guevara. Now Norda, who lives in Mexico, is selling the originals of many of her dad's famed photos at an auction house in England.
Fidel Castro made only about one putt in his long life but Korda made it famous.
This Korda photo in 1963 shows Fidel photographing Nikita Khrushchev and his family in Russia.
Alberto Korda took the above photo of Fidel Castro with Celia Sanchez.
Alberto Korda's photo of Che Guevara is one of history's all-time most famous images. It has appeared on millions of t-shirts, tattoos, blankets, pillows, buildings, coffee mugs, and dormitory walls worldwide.
Alberto Korda took this photo of Fidel Castro gazing over the Sierra Maestra.
But Alberto Korda's all-time favorite photo was not one that featured either Fidel Castro or Che Guevara. It was the one above of a little Cuban girl lovingly clutching a block of wood. Her parents were too poor to buy her a doll so the little girl pretended the block of wood was her doll. Korda said that revelation, and that photo, is the one that crowned his life as one of the world's all-time greatest photographers. His love of this particular photo, and that precious little girl, also crowns Mr. Korda as a decent, compassionate human being. He said: "I never thought of myself as a great photographer till I looked at this image of the little Cuban girl clutching her block of wood. Her mother told me she pretended it was her doll. This is the photo that made my career, my life, worthwhile. It is the only one I stare at constantly, wondering if rich little girls have as much fun with their dolls as the little Cuban girl had with hers. Little girls are heavenly, especially unspoiled, non-rich little girls."
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