Self-taught. Creator highlighting within the photography world for his extreme versatility. Photographer evincing the beauty and glamour prevailing around the 50s in our country. He worked on fashion and advertising before 1959, to become, since the revolutionary triumph, one of the official photographers of Fidel Castro and the new revolutionary government.

Among the most representative images identifying Korda as a photographer involved in his social enviroment, can be mentioned: Fidel in front of Lincoln Monument in Washington (1959); The farola Quijote (July 26, 1959); Fidel in Sierra Maestra writing at midnight with a poor houselight (1961), Girl having a doll of wood (Pinar del Rio 1959); the image of Fidel on the pick of a mountain from Sierra Maestra together with the slogan: Comandante en jefe, Ordene and the most diffused and famous image of Ernesto Ché Guevara (5/3/60), it was taken during the burial of victims who died in the explosion of La Coubre Ship`s sabotage (The photo remained unpublished until near Che´s assassination)

His work as photoreporter, captivating almost every important historical moment during the second half of XX century is placed, mainly, in Posters Weekly Publication and Revolution Newspaper; his experience as advertiser became an important contribution for the early production of magazines covers and newspaper in the spreading of this new process, soaking all these experiences by a total artistic validity and formal perfection due to his sensible reception of reality.

Korda´s work was not academically cultivated but strengthen by the consciuos experimentation in the artistic field. His photography is characterized by the use of natural light.

Since 1968, he tried on marine photographs. His creations are full of beauty and sensibility, his angles, expressions and environment achieve the exaltation of sensible elements.

In 1980, he received the First Prize of Photohistory of the Cuban Magazine Revolution and Culture and in 1983 he was appraised with the Photograph Prize at the Conquest Rubén Martínez Villena in Havana City.

Among his main solo exhibitions:
1988 Cuba Image Korda-Figueroa. Sala San Leonardo, Venecia, Italy.
1990 Che Guevara Monnen of Myten Kulturhuset Slaroeb Oslo, Norway.
1991 Che Guevara. Nesle Gallery. Paris, France.
1992 Alberto Díaz Korda. New Image Photogallery . Pamplona, Spain.
1994 Fragmentary Reality. L Gallery, Havana City, Cuba.

He participated in group exhibitions in Havana and some other cities such as: Colonia and Berlin, Germany.

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