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Gilberto Ante

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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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Roger-Viollet | 1030560 | Cuba. The Bay of Pigs, failed landing attempt encouraged by the CIA. Cuban Red Cross ambulance machine-gunned. Beach Girón (Playa Girón). 1961. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Cuba. The Bay of Pigs, failed landing attempt encouraged by the CIA. Cuban Red Cross ambulance [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 913948 | Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, visiting television studios. Cuba, 1959. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, visiting television studios. Cuba, [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 993149 | Cuba. Former militiamen. Reconstruction of the revolutionary fight. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Cuba. Former militiamen. Reconstruction of the revolutionary fight.
 
Roger-Viollet | 663829 | Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman. Cuba, 1960's | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman. Cuba, 1960's
 
Roger-Viollet | 204952 | Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, making a speech. Cuba, circa 1960. | © Gilberto Ante / Roger-Viollet
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, making a speech. Cuba, circa 1960.
 
Roger-Viollet | 727543 | Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, taking part in the first Students Congress. Havana university (Cuba), early 1960's. | © Gilberto Ante / Roger-Viollet
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, taking part in the first Students [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 666295 | Group of volunteers from the Cuban National Literacy Campaign, listening to a speech of Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman. Cuba, 1960-1961. | © Gilberto Ante / Roger-Viollet
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Group of volunteers from the Cuban National Literacy Campaign, listening to a speech of Fidel [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 421725 | Official stand : Fidel Castro (in the background) with Ernesto Guevara, Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado and Raúl Castro. Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), on July 26, 1965 | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Official stand : Fidel Castro (in the background) with Ernesto Guevara, Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 604143 | Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, making a speech. Cuba, 1962. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, making a speech. Cuba, 1962.
 
Roger-Viollet | 1025021 | Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado (1919-1983), President of the Republic of Cuba, and Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary and statesman, on the square of the presidential palace. Havana (Cuba), 1959. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado (1919-1983), President of the Republic of Cuba, and Fidel Castro [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 851703 | Speech of Fidel Castro with Ernesto Guevara, Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado and Raúl Castro. Cuba, 1962. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Speech of Fidel Castro with Ernesto Guevara, Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado and Raúl Castro. Cuba, 1962.
 
Roger-Viollet | 1094991 | Raúl Castro (born in 1931), Cuban politician, on visit, in front of the Manzanares cinema. Cuba, 1959. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Raúl Castro (born in 1931), Cuban politician, on visit, in front of the Manzanares cinema. Cuba, [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 654916 | Raúl Castro (born in 1931), Cuban politician. Cuba, circa 1960. | © Gilberto Ante / Roger-Viollet
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Raúl Castro (born in 1931), Cuban politician. Cuba, circa 1960.
 
Roger-Viollet | 517175 | Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary, making a speech in front of an assembly of the  Rebellious Youth . Cuba, 1959. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary, making a speech in front of an [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 547760 | Cuba. Participants in the 1960-1961 national literacy campaign. Aro de Guisa, Sierra Maestra. 1961. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Cuba. Participants in the 1960-1961 national literacy campaign. Aro de Guisa, Sierra Maestra. 1961.
 
Roger-Viollet | 385466 | Demonstration after the attack against the ship  La Coubre  on March 4, 1962. Havana (Cuba). | © Gilberto Ante / Roger-Viollet
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Demonstration after the attack against the ship "La Coubre" on March 4, 1962. Havana (Cuba).
 
Roger-Viollet | 813767 | Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara, 1928-1967), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary and Secretary for Trade, visiting the Griguanabo Baula textile factory, his respiratory system in his hands. Ariguanabo (Cuba). 1959. | © Gilberto Ante / BFC / Roger-Viollet
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Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara, 1928-1967), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary and Secretary [...]