When Did Che's Image First Start Being Used?

[Eddie999]

I'm just wondering when Che's image (the one thats on t-shirts, posters, in peoples avatar's etc...) first started being used. Was it while he was still alive or was it sometime afterwards? Thanks in advance.

[Bolshevist]

I think it was in the 70's, and the image was manipulated by an Italian artist if my memory serves me correct.

[NovelGentry]

No matter when it came into existence, it was probably brought on by the actions of Forest Gump

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

From what I know it was during the 60's. The Black panthers and an Asian pride group had a rally during the late sixties and there was a lot of Che pictures there

[Hampton]

Perhaps the most reproduced photograph in history, Guerrillero Heroico, depicting Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, sold 2 million copies following Che's death in October 1967..... Korda's editor at the newspaper Revolución ignored the picture, so Korda hung it on his studio wall, where it remained for seven years, until just before Che's death in Bolivia. Italian publisher Giacomo Feltrinelli, carrying a letter of introduction from the Cuban government, saw it there and asked for a couple of prints. Korda complied, refusing payment since the visitor was presented as "a friend of the revolution."

Following Che's death, Feltrinelli turned the photo into a poster, and the image began to spread. Even today, it adorns dormitory walls, T-shirts, key chains, and other items around the world.

Sexxxy. (http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/may00/11e14.htm)

[Felicia]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2004, 11:40 AM
I'm just wondering when Che's image (the one thats on t-shirts, posters, in peoples avatar's etc...) first started being used. Was it while he was still alive or was it sometime afterwards? Thanks in advance.
Actually. Images created of Che Guevara were done up and used by many people soon after the revolution took place. I found an early portrait in a book I have, drawn by workers for a graphics design company. It wasn't his most well known image (given that the picture of his most well known image was taken a few years later, I'm not sure of the date, and then became popularised). But I've seen this image before, so it has become somewhat recognisible, but given that che has a very recognisible face, that may not say very much.

I'm currently looking for the picture that I'm speaking of in a book I have, it might take me a few minutes for me to find it.... I'll scan it and post it with this post.

also, the picture of Che (with the gold and pink) used as an avatar selection here was the artistic end result of Pablo Labanino, done in 1978. Very cool :)

Just thought you'd like to know that some added information :)

**ok, here;s the picture.....ignore all of the book marks, sorry about the file size, too lazy to figure out how to shrink it** :lol:

it's kind of a silly book though, it's mostly a buck of quotes..... but it's loaded with pictures I've never seen before, that's why I bought it :lol:

[Felicia]

oh, and since I'm posting picture, this one's absolutely gorgeous!

it's the one in the upper right hand of the first page...... I'm terrible with cropping.

[simonamstell]

oh man he was great when he was in wcw. But him and eddie where brilliant. they used to be the best luchadores in the business.

[tequila]

The image was first drawn by an Irish artist not an Italian one!!!!!!! :ph34r:

[schumi]

it's kind of a silly book though, it's mostly a buck of quotes..... but it's loaded with pictures I've never seen before, that's why I bought it

thats why i bought it aswell...there are tons of pics which you wouldn't finde with google...

[Wiesty]

i have the famous che poster and it says it was drawn by Korda. I know he's the one who took the famous picture, but for the drawing i dont know.