Who is the shaper of the revolutionary classic image?

Ernesto guevara, a legendary Cuban national hero, is an idol in the eyes of young people all over the world. The portrait of him wearing a beret and a zipper coat has become a treasure of many young people. This photo has as many copies as the Mona Lisa. In the photo, Guevara's persistent and distant eyes became an indelible moment.

The photographer of this classic moment is Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, a Cuban photographer.

1960 On March 5th, a Belgian weapons carrier accidentally exploded at Havana Pier, causing the crew of 136 to die on the spot. Gutierrez, a photojournalist of the Cuban newspaper Revolution, was ordered to report the funeral scene of the crew. Just as Cuban revolutionary leader Castro gave a speech, Cuban legendary hero Guevara suddenly walked to the podium. As soon as Gutierrez pressed the shutter twice, Guevara turned and disappeared. Decades later, Gutierrez still clearly remembers the scene when taking pictures:

This photo was taken by accident, not on purpose. I will never forget his eyes, which are a mixture of perseverance and pain.

After taking the photo, Gutierrez returned to the darkroom. He developed the photos taken that day, including the one that will be famous in the world in the future. Next, the editor of Revolution selected a photo of Castro's speech from the photos taken by Gutierrez, published it on the front page of the newspaper the next day, and then returned the remaining photos to Gutierrez. Gutierrez thought Guevara's photo was good, so he hung it on the wall of his studio. He never imagined that this accidental work would become a classic many years later.

Seven years later, a visiting man suddenly walked into Gutierrez's studio. He had a letter of introduction from a senior official of the Cuban Revolutionary Committee in his hand and asked Gutierrez to find a photo about Guevara. Gutierrez pointed to the photo that has been hanging on the wall and said, "This photo of Guevara is my most satisfactory." . The visiting man also appreciated the effect of the photos and asked him to develop two more. Gutierrez readily gave the film to the man, just asking him to return it the next day.

The person who came to Gutierrez to take photos was Feltri Neri, a famous Italian publisher. He learned from his friends that Guevara was a guerrilla in Bolivia, and he was already in the midst of a comprehensive "encirclement and suppression" by the Bolivian military. Smart European publishers immediately found this an excellent opportunity to make a fortune. Shortly after he got this photo, Guevara died in the Bolivian revolution. Feltri Neri took this opportunity to sell this photo taken by Gutierrez to the whole world. In less than 10 years, he sold 200,000 propaganda photos of Guevara and became a millionaire himself.

Since then, this photo taken by Gutierrez has become a symbol of a country, a period of history and even an era. The Art College of Maryland College, which invited Gutierrez to give lectures, spoke highly of this photo and considered it a symbol of the 20th century.

Gutierrez, nicknamed "Kodak", took his father's Kodak 35 camera to the road of photography. He took a camera to take pictures of his girlfriend and scenery, but slowly became famous and made a lot of money. 1959 after the outbreak of the Cuban revolution, he gave up his rich life, and together with a group of like-minded young photographers, he faithfully recorded the legendary fighting lives of Cuban revolutionary heroes such as Castro with his camera, making great contributions to the history of the Cuban revolution.