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 Cuba:
Korda’s Unpublished Archives to Be Exhibited
HAVANA, Cuba,
Sep 9 (acn) The daughter and will’s executor of late renown
photographer Korda, Diana, said during the opening of the
exhibition “Bembe” last night in Havana, that his archives
contain between 90 to 120 thousand unpublished negatives.
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The
exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of the passing away of
Korda, whose real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, and is a
photo essay on Afro-Cuban liturgical rites first published in
1960.
Diana said that this exhibition shows a part of her father’s work
that is not well known by the public and announced she is working on
cataloguing the negatives she possesses to later release them.
Korda became an icon in the photography world thanks to the
Cuban-Argentinean Ernesto Che Guevara´s snap taken at the burial of
the victims of the sabotage of the La Coubre steamer in Havana March
4, 1960.
He also became an exceptional witness of the events surrounding the
Cuban Revolution, its first years after the overthrowing of the
Batista dictatorship, as well as the Havana’s fashion world at that
time.
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