Black and White Photography: Black-And-White Photographs, Cottingley Fairies, Guerrillero Heroico, Thch Qu?ng C

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 157. Not illustrated. Chapters: Black-And-White Photographs, Cottingley Fairies, Guerrillero Heroico, Thich Qu ng c, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, V j Day in Times Square, the Steerage, Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, the Falling Soldier, Clyde Butcher, Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath, Gerri Santoro, Nguy n V n Lem, Photo 51, Mary Ann Vecchio, Jan Rose Kasmir, Child With Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, Elizabeth Eckford, Armstrong, Beere and Hime Panorama, Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906, a Great Day in Harlem, Dancing Man, Conrad Schumann, Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967, Burst of Joy, Ink Flag, View From the Window at le Gras, Into the Jaws of Death, Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper, the Soiling of Old Glory, the Soul of a Horse, Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika, Migrant Mother. Excerpt: Guerrillero Heroico (English: Heroic Guerrilla Fighter) is an iconic photo of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda. It was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion and by the end of the 1960s turned the charismatic and controversial leader into a cultural icon. Korda has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was drawn to Guevara's facial expression, which showed absolute implacability as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda would say that the photo showed Che's firm and stoic character. Guevara was 31 at the time the photo was taken. Emphasizing the image's ubiquitous nature and wide appeal, the Maryland Institute College of Art called the picture a symbol of the 20th century and the world's most famous photo. Versions of it have been painted, printed, digitized, embroidered, tattooed, silk-screened, sculpted or sketched on nearly every surface imaginable, leading the Victoria and Albert Museum to say that the p...