Cuban Alberto Korda, who photographed Che Guevara, has died

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APTN London, September 15, 2000 1. Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, known as Alberto Korda, posing with his picture of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and laughing 2. Various of picture of Che APTN Havana, Cuba - August 9 2000 3. Wide of Revolution Square with image of Che on side of building 4. Various of image of Che on different pieces of merchandise APTN London, September 15, 2000 5. Wide of table with Alberto Diaz Gutierrez 6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish with English translation) Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, Photographer: "My feelings for the life of this man (Che Guevara)...there is no money in the world that can pay for it. I am very proud." 7. Rear shot of table 8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, Photographer: "They say it is the most reproduced photograph in the history of photography. Can you imagine it? For a humble photographer to think that they have created an image that historians examine...that it is the most reproduced not this century, but in the history of photography...well....I felt....(laughs)." APTN Havana, Cuba - August 9 2000 9. Various of image of Che on different pieces of merchandise APTN London, September 15, 2000 10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, Photographer: "I became aware that I lived in a society where children...many of them...millions...did not even have the right to have a doll if they were a little girl, or a toy car if they were a little boy. There had been a Revolution that had triumphed and they told us that this social difference would disappear. From that moment on I knew that my work, from then on, would be for this Revolution. And so it has been, up to today, I have never left it. Because the Revolution has never let me down." AP STILLS - Havana, Cuba - August 8 2000 11. Still of Gutierrez, in front of picture of Che STORYLINE Alberto Korda, the photographer whose images helped make Ernesto "Che" Guevara into a guerrilla icon, died in Paris on Friday of a heart attack, according to relatives. He was 72. Korda, whose real last names were Diaz Gutierrez, worked with the newspaper Revolucion immediately after Fidel Castro's guerrillas toppled Fulgencio Batista and was later a personal photographer for Castro. His photos of Guevara and the early revolutionary period made him famous. His most acclaimed photo of Guevara, taken in Havana in 1960, showed the rebel leader, with curly hair and a tilted beret, staring with an intense gaze into the distance. The photograph was taken at a memorial service for more than 100 crew members of a Belgian arms cargo ship killed in an attack that Cuba blamed on U.S.-backed counterrevolutionary forces. After Guevara's death in Bolivia in 1967, the photograph was used on posters and T-shirts around the world. Last year Korda won a copyright protection suit against a vodka company that tried to use the image in advertisements. Korda said he had never made any money from the image of Guevara. He was in Paris attending an exhibition of his works. "He was thinking of returning tomorrow night," said one of his five children, Norka Diaz, who confirmed he had died. She said it was not clear when his body would be returned to Cuba. The Argentine-born Guevara was a key figure in Cuba's 1959 revolution. He later tried to organize or assist rebellions in the Congo and in Bolivia. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/63f5870956c5fb8403dffc6e5d73b29b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork