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Wednesday 15 August 2001
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Che Guevara's Photographs
Summary: Revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara is still revered as a national hero in Cuba. While Che was being photographed he was also taking his own pictures, many of which have gone on display in the Cuban capital Havana. This report from Daniel Schweimler.
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| | | Ernesto Che Guevara was quite used to being photographed. He was one of the great romantic heroes of the twentieth century, an adventurer, a revolutionary and after his death in 1967 while trying to foment revolution in Bolivia, a symbol of revolution on millions of t-shirts and walls of student homes. While being photographed he was also taking pictures. Many of those pictures have now gone on display in the Morro-Cabana fortress overlooking Havana Bay. It was in that same fortress that Che Guevara had his office in the years after the triumph of the Cuban revolution in 1959.
Despite his busy schedule he always took time to record his travels. His self portraits are perhaps the most stunning. A fresh faced innocent student leaving Argentina in 1951. A more hardened but still idealistic man in Tanzania in 1965.
Che Guevara's collections of photographs are perhaps not great art but they provide an interesting record of one of the most dramatic lives of recent times.
David Schweimler, BBC, Havana
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| | The Words
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| | | romantic hero
a man who seems as dramatic and exciting as a character in a book.
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| | | adventurer
a person who enjoys exciting, dangerous activities - often in foreign countries.
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| | | to foment revolution
to excite or agitate people so that they overthrow the government.
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| | | gone on display
being shown.
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| | | fortress
a castle, or other large strong building.
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| | | stunning
impressive, striking.
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| | | fresh faced
young, innocent looking.
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| | | idealistic
a person who believes in ideas that seem perfect and who tries to make these ideas a reality.
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