40 years of iconography
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October 9, 2007, 9:29 am
Filed under: Arts, independence, photography, politics | Tags: Andy Warhol, art, Che, Che guevara, icons, Jim fitzpatrick, Mona lisa, popart, posterart
Filed under: Arts, independence, photography, politics | Tags: Andy Warhol, art, Che, Che guevara, icons, Jim fitzpatrick, Mona lisa, popart, posterart
One of the greatest iconographic images of all time was created by Jim Fitzpatrick in memorium of Che Guevara’s death 40 years ago today.
It’s a perfect image and the photographer who took it has a Flickr site that tells you much of the story.
Worth a look if you’re interested. Here
It’s better than this, but look what it has inspired…
This too…
And allegedly Andy Warhol simply ripped it off and passed it off as his own…
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having written a 12500 word dissertation on this iconic image for my undergraduate degree, I cannot tell you how happy I am that it is currently the subject of intelligent discussion rather than merely a t-shirt icon/screen-saver! There are many images born of the original Korda photograph, such as the Jim Fitzgerald version – which appeared with extraordinary synchronicity at almost exactly the same time as the posters protesting at the murder of Che by the CIA and Bolivian government soldiers that was produced by left-wing Italian publisher Giancomo Feltrinelli; since then many iconic figures ahve been ‘Che’d’ including Madonna, Margaret Thatcher, George best, Gavin Turk, Cher, Ricky Gervais, Jesus Christ among others; thanks for the timely reminder Mark
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