Roberto Salas (1940) - Che, 1963

Che Guevara smiles as he smokes tobacco, Havana, Cuba, 1963.

Dimensions: 43 x 56 cm.
Note: Printing on double-baryta paper, exceptional paper and print quality.
This photo belongs to one of the world's best collections about Cuba.
They cover the period from 1930 to 1970, spanning before the Cuban Revolution and through the entire Revolution, and include the world's best-known Cuban photographers.
They were exhibited in art galleries in Havana, Spain and Canada.
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A signed and dedicated photo from the great photographer Osvaldo Salas.
Biography of the photographer:
SALAS Merino, Roberto (Bronx, New York, November 16, 1940).

Photographer, son of Cuban parents. Known for Salitas. He studied photography with his father Osvaldo Salas and at the age of fifteen he did his first work for the New York newspaper El Imparcial. In August 1957 he published in LIFE Magazine his first photo of the flag of the 26 July Movement on the Statue of Liberty, today known under the title “The Lady and the Flag.” In 1959 he settled in Havana and joined the newspaper Revolución and the magazine Cuba (1963-1964), worked with the magazine Bohemia, and was the founder of the newspaper Granma. In 1960 he worked as a correspondent at the United Nations and was among the founders of Agencia Prensa Latina (New York Office); He went as a war correspondent to Vietnam (1966-1967 and 1972-1973). He was a photographer for the Press Directorate of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1970-1973) and between 1974 and 1980 was photographer and head of public relations of the National Tourism Institute. As a special envoy he traveled to several countries. He has exhibited his works in more than 25 art galleries in the major cities of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Six years in a row (1991-1996) he won a prize at the Tokyo International Photography Salon; Gaudí Medal, 1995, in the Hall of Laureates in Reus, Spain; Photographer of the Year (1972) of the Soviet Union’s Tiempos Nuevos magazine, among other awards, including the second prize at the Abelardo Rodríguez Antiguo International Photo Salon, and he has earned more than one hundred national and international awards and mentions. In the 1990s he experimentally explored and manipulated images with the series: Tobacco: Visions about a Legend, using the act with overlaid images of the tobacco leaf; he produced another series with the Yagruma leaf and in 2003 created prints with digital manipulations, which were exhibited at the Photo Library of Cuba, at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands and at the Research Institute for the Study of Man in New York. He holds the title AFIAP (Artist of the International Federation of Photographic Art, of which he was a representative in the Caribbean). For his life's work he received in 2002 the Olorum Cubano Award, sponsored by FCIF. Founding member of UNEAC and UPEC as well as an honorary member of FCIF.

His works are represented in museums and galleries around the world.