In 1959 Che Guevara gave Gilberto Ante (1925-1991) his first 35mm camera, an Exakta. From that time on, he photographed the story of the on-going revolution: Fidel Castro, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Raul Castro...From the 1960s until the end of the 1980s, Gilberto Ante was an observer of the agrarian reform, of the literacy campaign, of political life, of daily and artistic life, working in particular for the newspapers Bohemia and Verdi Olivo. Roger-Viollet is the exclusive distributor of Gilberto Ante's photographs worldwide.
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Cuba. Raúl Castro, witness at the wedding of Piti Fajardo's daughter, commander of the revolutionary army, killed on fighting against the anti-castroits about 1970.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, with a family. Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), circa 1960.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, in his house. Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), circa 1960.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, cutting the sugar cane. Cuba, 1970.
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Raúl Castro, Cuban politician. Cuba, 1970.
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Cuba. Pregnant women in the country. About 1960.
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Raúl Castro cutting the sugar cane. Cuba, 1970.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, cutting the sugar cane. Cuba, 1970.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, acclaimed by young people. Cuba, circa 1960.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, equipped with a bag and rifle in the Sierra Maestra. Cuba, 1963.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, cutting the sugar cane and talking with some farmers. Cuba, 1970.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, playing baseball. Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), 1960.
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Raúl Castro talking with a family of countrymen. Cuba, 1964.
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First anniversary of the AJR (Asociación de Jóvenes Rebeldes, Association of Young Rebels). Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman. Cuba, 1961.
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Yuri Gagarin (1936-1968), first Soviet cosmonaut, greeted by Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman. Havana (Cuba), 1963.
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Valentina Terechkova (born in 1937), first Female Soviet astronaut, during a trip in Cuba, 1963.
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Reconstruction of the attack on the Moncada barracks which Fidel Castro tried to take on July 26, 1953. Santiago de Cuba (Cuba).
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Cuba, 1960-1961.
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First anniversary of the AJR (Asociación de Jóvenes Rebeldes, Association of Young Rebels). Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman. Cuba, 1961.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, inaugurating the José A. Echevarria's student hall of residence. Cuba, circa 1960.
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), his brother Raúl Castro (born in 1931), Cuban revolutionaries and politicians, and Celia Sanchez Manduley (1920-1980), Cuban revolutionary, during a visit in the Sierra Maestra (Cuba), late 1957.
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Primary school in Cuba, in 1962.
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Banner in a farm village, inciting workers to productivity gains. Cuba, around 1960.
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Library. Yaguajay (Cuba), around 1960.
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Cuba. Record harvest of 10 millions of tons of sugar cane. 1970.
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Cojima (Cuba). Agricultural education farm reserved to the orphans whose the parents have been killed fighting in the Sierra Maestra from 1956 to December 1958. About 1960.
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Cuba. Members of a brigade on rest during the record harvest of 10 millions of tons of sugar cane. 1970.
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Havana (Cuba). One of the first parade of militiamen and women. Place of the Revolution. 1959-1960.
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Farm workers in a field of sugar cane. Cuba, 1960.
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Young revolutionary. Cuba, around 1960.
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Cuba. Shipyard, 1960.
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Havana (Cuba). First demonstration in support of the Revolution, in front of the old Presidential palace. 1959-1960.
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First demonstration supporting the Revolution, in front of the former presidential palace. Havana (Cuba), 1959-1960.
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Havana (Cuba). First demonstration in support of the Revolution, in front of the old Presidential palace. 1959.
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Havana (Cuba). First demonstration in support of the Revolution, in front of the old Presidential palace. 1959-1960.
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Matanzas (Cuba). Fishing school "Victoria de Girón", about 1960.
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Cuba Medical students, circa 1960.
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Cuba. Participants at the national campaign of eliminetion of illiteracy. 1960-1961.
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Militiamen fighting counter-revolutionary groups. Cuba, 1960-1964.
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Raúl Castro (born in 1931), Cuban politician. Cuba.
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Raúl Castro (born in 1931), Cuban politician. Cuba.
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Man on horseback taking part in a popular gathering for Revolution. Cuba, 1962.
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Cuba. Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban of Argentinian origin revolutionary, making a speech to the " Rebel Youth " in 1959.
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Cuba. Valentina Tereschkova (born in 1937), Sovietic cosmonaut and Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, with a model of Sputnik.
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Cuba. Militian worker. Years 1960.
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Anastas Mikoyan, first vice-president of the Soviet Cabinet on visit in the Havana (Cuba), 1959.
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Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara, 1928-1967), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary.
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Cuba. Camilo Cienfuegos (1932-1959), Cuban revolutionary hero.
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Cuba. Bombardment of the airport of Santiago de Cuba by mercenaries, the day before the expedition of the bay of Pigs (Playa Girón - Beach Girón), attempt of landing encouraged by the CIA. April 15, 1961.
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Cuba. Young Cuban militiman at the fight of the bay of Pigs (Playa Girón), attempt of landing encouraged by the CIA. April 17-19, 1961.
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