Contact Sheet Print: Che Guevara, Cuba, 1963 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) While simultaneously documenting Mobutu’s Zaire

While simultaneously documenting Mobutu’s Zaire

Ernest Hemingway and Capa met during the Spanish Civil War

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Seymour’s biographer

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Contact Sheet Print: Che Guevara, Cuba, 1963 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) While simultaneously documenting Mobutu’s ZaireIn 1963 Ren Burri visited Havana on commission for Look magazine. One of the resultant portraits of Guevara smoking a cigar became an iconic image of the 20th century. For the book Contact Sheets, Ren Burri told the story behind the photograph: I arrived with the US reporter Laura Berquist from Look magazine. Che had invited her when they met at the end of 1962 in New York. I immediately realized that the blinds were closed. Since this posed a