Che Guevara, Jim Fitzpatrick and the making of an icon

Jim Fitzpatrick’s motivation for producing a poster of revolutionary Che Guevara was both personal—he met the man himself as a 16-year-old—and political: he was a left-wing activist himself by the time he produced his first Che image five years later. His family background would not have suggested such an outcome. He describes his mother as ... Read more

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