Magnum Print Bundle: Che Guevara, Cuba, 1963 Contact Sheet Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) His vocation would eventually bring

His vocation would eventually bring about his death as he was killed on assignment by a landmine in 1954

he photographed the ruins of Munich and became art editor of Heute

Pictured here

as we leaf through the book

bricks and windows strewn

Magnum Print Bundle: Che Guevara, Cuba, 1963 Contact Sheet Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) His vocation would eventually bringIn 1963 Ren Burri visited Havana on commission for Look magazine. One of the resultant portraits of Guevara smoking a cigar became an iconic image of the 20th century. For the book Contact Sheets, Ren Burri told the story behind the photograph: I arrived with the US reporter Laura Berquist from Look magazine. Che had invited her when they met at the end of 1962 in New York. I immediately realized that the blinds were closed. Since this posed a