Dominic Winter: vintage photography sale - South Cerney

Monday 8th February 2010

Dominic Winter’s vintage photography sale at South Cerney on March 4 includes this iconic image by Alberto Korda.

It shows Fidel Castro entering Havana with his fellow revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegas on January 8, 1959.

Korda was not a photo-journalist at that time, but for 10 years he was the Cuban leader’s personal photographer, and responsible for the portrait of Che Guevara that has become one of the most famous photographs of all time.

There are seven Korda photographs of Castro from 1959 and 1960 in the sale.

Signed and stamped by the photographer and printed by him in 2000, they carry estimates from £500 up to the £1,000-£1,500 expected for this one.