Guerrillero Heroico

At a memorial service in Havana on March 5, 1960, Fidel Castro's photographer Alberto Korda raised his Leica M2 with a 90mm lens and caught Che Guevara's gaze for a few seconds. Two frames. The image sat mostly unpublished for years before becoming — via posters, murals, and t-shirts — likely the most reproduced photograph ever made.

Korda never collected royalties for it during Cuba's decades outside international copyright, which is precisely why the image spread without friction. It entered the public domain under Cuban law, making it one of the few world-famous 20th-century photographs we can legally display here.