38-1116: Korda is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alberto Korda (1928–2011), Cuban photographer Alexander Korda (1893–1956), Hungarian-born British film director and producer Chris Korda (born 1962), American musician; son of Michael Dezső Korda (1864–1919), Hungarian engineer, inventor of rotary capacitor Jessica Korda (born 1993), American golfer; daughter of Petr Michael Korda (born 1933), English-born American editor and writer Nelly Korda (born 1998), American golfer; daughter of Petr Paul Korda (1948-2020), English musician and actor Petr Korda (born 1968), Czech tennis player Sebastian Korda (born 2000), American tennis player; son of Petr Serena Korda (born 1979), British artist Vincent Korda (1897–1979), Hungarian-born British art director Zoltán Korda (1895–1961), Hungarian-born film director See also [ edit ] Korda Studios (Hungary) Corda (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
76-532: A Bayer filter — rather than black and white film — in order to enable longer takes. Leica M Monochrom is a digital camera in Leica Camera AG 's rangefinder M series, and features a monochrome sensor . The camera was announced in May 2012. Phase One IQ3 100MP Achromatic is a digital medium format camera with an ISO rating exceeding up to 51,200. The camera was released in 2017. The Pentax K3 Mark III
114-408: A blue sky), or by converting the image to a greyscale version (which eliminates the colors permanently), using software programs like Photoshop. After software conversion to a monochrome image, one or more hues can replace the grey tones to emulate duotones , sepia, selenium or gold toned images or cyanotype, calotype or albumen prints. Although digital images captured in color can be modified with
152-501: A digital black and white process, some specialized cameras photograph natively in black and white with no option for color. Black and white digital cameras are often designed without a Bayer filter , avoiding the demosaicing process and meaning that a camera will only capture raw luminance . This allows these specialized cameras to capture the full spectrum of available light. Some feature films, including Blonde , were shot using specialized digital video equipment designed without
190-406: A famous gay French lawyer, Emmanuel Pierrat, to defend us, but we technically lost. The damages were reduced to about €8,000, but we had to cover the court costs, so we ended up having to pay about €30,000 (the budget of the film was about 60,000!), effectively erasing all our profits from the film. 'The film is a critique of radical chic and both a critique and celebration of the radical left, but it
228-519: A fatal heart attack in Paris in 2001 while presenting an exhibition of his work. He is buried in the Colon Cemetery, Havana . He was featured in a full feature documentary titled Kordavision directed by Hector Cruz Sandoval in 2006 which was selected by AMPAS 2007 documentary series. In September 2016 the 'Leica' camera that Korda's used for his famous photo of Che Guevara was auctioned through
266-458: A prosperous business; it became an art studio. "My main aim was to meet women", he once confessed. His second wife, Natalia (Norka) Menendez, was a well known Cuban fashion model. The relationship between Fidel Castro and Korda could not be defined by one label or title. For Castro, Korda was more than an official photographer, a friend or personal photographer. They never discussed salary or title, their relationship wasn't boss and worker. Korda
304-428: Is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light ( value ), but not a different color ( hue ). The majority of monochrome photographs produced today are black-and-white , either from a gelatin silver process , or as digital photography . Other hues besides grey can be used to create monochrome photography, but brown and sepia tones are the result of older processes like
342-462: Is My Boyfriend," started to be widely quoted online and on t-shirts and banners, neatly mirroring the radical chic critiqued in the movie. Excerpt from Make Porn, Not War: An Interview With Bruce LaBruce . "Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture." Solo exhibitions of his works have been held in Helsinki, Finland, 1962;
380-617: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alberto Korda Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez , better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda (September 14, 1928 – May 25, 2001), was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara . Korda, whose real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, was born on September 14, 1928, in Havana, Cuba . He got his first taste of photography when he took his father's Kodak 35mm and began taking pictures of his girlfriend. Korda
418-530: Is obviously anti-capitalist, so the irony of being scuttled by Che and Korda over copyright was bitter. They argued mostly that we "demeaned" and "defiled" the image of Che, although I didn't really intend having a hot porn star jerk off on a blow-up of the Che image to be demeaning at all – more of an homage, really. I just figured everyone else in the world was jerking off to the image, so I might as well show it literally. The film's slogans, particularly "The Revolution
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#1732783887458456-449: Is often called greyscale . Black-and-white photography is considered by some to add a more emotional touch to the subject, compared with the original colored photography. Monochrome images may be produced in a number of ways. Finding and capturing a scene having only variants of a certain hue, while difficult and uncommon in practice, will result in an image that technically qualifies as a monochrome photo. One can also artificially limit
494-603: The Soviet Union . In 1963 photos of Fidel and Nikita Khrushchev , taken by Korda, illustrated the differences in both men that were evident in their respective politics. In 1959 Fidel went back to the Sierra Maestra , the remote mountain region, where the revolutionary army began its attacks on the army of the Batista Regime. Korda's style was to move to the front of whatever group Fidel was leading to get
532-430: The albumen print , and cyan tones are the product of cyanotype prints. As monochrome photography provides an inherently less accurate reproduction than color photography , it is mostly used for artistic purposes and certain technical imaging applications. Although methods for photographing in color emerged slowly starting in the 1850s, monochrome imagery dominated photography until the mid–twentieth century. From
570-550: The albumen print —generally produced images with a variety of brown or sepia tones. Later processes moved toward a black-and-white image, although photographers have used toning solutions to convert silver in the image to silver sulphide, imparting a brown or sepia tone . Similarly, selenium toner produces a blue-black or purple image by converting silver into more stable silver selenide. Cyanotypes use iron salts rather than silver salts, producing blue images. Most modern black-and-white films, called panchromatic films, record
608-407: The surname Korda . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Korda&oldid=1099362676 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
646-671: The Galleria H. Diafragma Canon, Milan, Italy, 1985; Galería Servando Cabrera, Havana, 1986; Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, 2000; COEX , Seoul, Korea, 2011. Group exhibitions of his works include: in 1962, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana; 1967, Expo'67 , Pabellón Cubano, Montreal; 1980, Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, Mexico City; 1980, Centro de Arte Internacional, Havana; 1983, Westbeth Gallery, New York; 1999, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana; 2000, C. Grimaldis Gallery , Baltimore, Maryland; 2000, Royal National Theatre, London; 2002, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He
684-473: The Lamp Post showing a Cuban wearing a straw hat and sitting on a lamp post against a sea of people during a rally. From 1968 to 1978 he concentrated on underwater photography until a Japanese exhibition in 1978 stimulated international interest in his work. He appeared briefly in the pre-title sequence of Wim Wenders ' film Buena Vista Social Club in 1999, although he was uncredited. Korda suffered
722-569: The entire visible spectrum . Some films are orthochromatic , recording visible light wavelengths shorter than 590 nanometers , in the blue to green range of the spectrum and are less sensitive to the longer wavelength range (i.e. orange-red) of the visible spectrum. Black-and-white photography is considered by some to be more subtle and interpretive, and less realistic than color photography. Monochrome images are not direct renditions of their subjects, but are abstractions from reality, representing colors in shades of grey. In computer terms, this
760-435: The entire sensor area to be utilized for specific wavelengths of light emitted by many deep space objects. Hydrogen-alpha, a common wavelength used, is red in color. and only the red pixels, approximately 25% of the sensor, will detect this light. In a monochrome camera, the whole sensor can be used to detect this signal. Monochrome photography is also useful in areas of high light pollution. Colorful food photography increases
798-680: The ideals of the revolution and began photographing its leaders. As photographer of the Revolution, Korda always worked at his own photographic tempo; he wasn't pushed by the press or by any other requests. Wherever the revolution took Castro, Korda followed. One of Korda's most recognizable images was of Castro's visit to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in April 1959. Castro's travels took Korda all around Cuba, overseas, and
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#1732783887458836-456: The illicit use of his photograph, the artist said, "As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world, but I am categorically against the exploitation of Che's image for the promotion of products such as alcohol, or for any purpose that denigrates the reputation of Che." His out-of-court settlement of US $ 50,000
874-524: The online auction house Catawiki for 18,100 euros. In 2005 Bruce Labruce's producer Jürgen Brüning and Labruce himself were sued by the estate of Korda for a million dollars over the use of Korda's famous photo of Che "Guerrillero Heroico" in Labruce's movie The Raspberry Reich . In an interview from 2018 the Canadian filmmaker talked about the lawsuit: It played at over a hundred film festivals and
912-468: The paper yellowed. When he opened his first studio, Korda had an opportunity to learn from his mistakes and to stop the yellowing process by using the right chemicals for the correct durations of time. In 1953, Korda opened his first studio with a photographer named Luis Pierce . Initially, Korda and Pierce took a variety of jobs ranging from fashion to advertisements. Most of the jobs were photographed by his studio partner, to keep their business going. It
950-421: The range of color in a photo to those within a certain hue by using black-and-white film or paper , or by manipulating color images using computer software. Color images can be converted to black and white on the computer using several methods, including desaturating the existing color RGB image so that no color remains visible (which still allows color channels to be manipulated to alter tones such as darkening
988-649: The revolution, Korda became Fidel Castro's personal photographer for 10 years, accompanying Castro on trips and in meetings with foreign personalities. During this time he also took pictures of demonstrations, sugar cane harvests and factory scenes. Other less-known Fidel Castro images by Korda include shots of Castro staring warily at a tiger in a New York zoo, playing golf and fishing with Che Guevara, skiing and hunting in Russia, and with Ernest Hemingway . Korda's work also includes pictures of Castro's rebels riding into Havana after their triumph, and one known as The Quixote of
1026-400: The revolutionary cause. Korda Says, "Nearing 30, I was heading toward a frivolous life when an exceptional event transformed my life: The Cuban Revolution. It was at this time that I took this photo of a little girl, who was clutching a piece of wood for a doll. I came to understand that it was worth dedicating my work to a revolution which aimed to remove these inequalities." He got caught up in
1064-510: The shots he wanted. When Korda came back to his home, his daughter barely recognized him: his hair and beard were long and he hadn't showered for months. Korda took many pictures for the newspaper and called the series "Fidel Returns to the Sierra." Fidel always liked Korda's photos and never stopped him when he attempted to take his picture. He worked freely without thinking about political consequences to get what he wanted in his photos. Korda
1102-402: The start, photographic recording processes such as the daguerreotype , the paper negative and the glass collodion negative did not render the color of light (although they were sensitive to some colors more than others). The result was a monochrome image. Until the 1880s, photographic processes that were used for printing negatives—such as calotype , ambrotype , tintype , salt print and
1140-465: Was "a travesty of reality" and only used natural light in his studio. He was master of black-and-white photography who looked for perfect composition and framing. Korda had unique creative ambition that he used to rise above in style when compared to the unimaginative cultural perspective of traditional Cuban photography. This unique creativity turned the Korda Studio into something more than just
1178-613: Was a photographer for the Cuban newspaper Revolución when he produced on March 5, 1960, the iconic image of Che Guevara that became a worldwide symbol of revolution and rebellion. He never received any royalties for the image, because Castro did not recognize the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works . In 2000, he sued Smirnoff (Lowe Lintas) over the use of the image in advertisement. Commenting on
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1216-742: Was awarded the Cuban "Palma de Plata" in 1959; named Best Photoreporter of the year, Revolución Journal , Havana, 1960–1963; awarded the 5th International Award of Submarine Photografie "Maurizio Sana," Italy; awarded National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba; 1994. His works are in the collections of Casa de las Américas , Havana, Cuba; Center for Cuban Studies, New York, NY; Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, Parma University, Parma, Italy; Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba; Galleria IF, Milan, Italy; Galleria Il Diafragma Kodak, Milan, Italy; Maison de la Culture de la Seine Saint-Denis, Paris, France; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba. Monochrome photography Monochrome photography
1254-628: Was donated to the Cuban healthcare system. He said, "If Che were still alive, he would have done the same." However, he told a BBC World Service reporter that he did approve of the 1999 Che Jesus adaptation of the image used by the Churches Advertising Network to promote church attendance in the UK. The truth is that Korda gave the picture for free to Giangiacomo Feltrinelli , an Italian publisher who had published Doctor Zhivago and went on to publish Castro's diaries. After
1292-576: Was on its way to becoming a cult hit when, about six months into my tour with the film, Jurgen and I got hit with a million dollar (Canadian) lawsuit for copyright infringement by the Korda estate. The lawsuit was launched in France, which has some of the toughest copyright laws in the world, but the sixty-page court document was delivered to my door in Toronto by a local sheriff, so it was pretty heavy. We got
1330-478: Was released as a monochromatic version in 2023 to high demand. The use of the following modifiers can add a different aesthetic to images without software manipulation, each for their own unique purposes: Monochrome imaging for astrophotography is a popular technique among amateur astrophotographers. Modern monochrome cameras dispose of the color bayer matrix that sits in front of the sensor. This allows for specialized narrowband filters to be used, allowing
1368-512: Was the money generated by these jobs that allowed Korda to develop his unique style of looking at an image from another angle, different from the traditional photographers' studios. It was this style that Studios Korda quickly became identified with achieving. In the early years, Korda was most interested in fashion because it allowed him to pursue his two favorite things, photography and beautiful women. Korda became Cuba's premiere fashion photographer. Korda disliked artificial lighting; he said it
1406-415: Was the son of a railway worker, and took many jobs before beginning as a photographer's assistant. Korda began his career as a photographer who shot pictures at banquets, baptisms and weddings. He would run back to his studio to develop the film, then return to the event and sell his photographs as souvenirs. The quality of Korda's work as a beginner was very poor; after a few months the image became blurry and
1444-456: Was very relaxed, and interested in everything and everyone. Every photo he took was a symbol of the revolution, instead of a documentary of the events of the revolution. The Cuban Revolution was the turning point in Korda's career; his career plans were completely changed with the success of the revolutionaries. In 1959 the newly established newspaper offered the largest space for photographers to display their photographs, and Korda became part of
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