BRIAN MOSER (NÉ EN 1935) - Lot 174

Lot n° 174
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BRIAN MOSER (NÉ EN 1935) - Lot 174
BRIAN MOSER (NÉ EN 1935) Bolivia on the Day of the Death of Che Guevara (Reportage sur les jours qui suivirent la mort du Che et sur le procès de Régis Debray à Camiri), Bolivie, automne 1967 Bobine d'époque 16 mm de 60 minutes, dans sa boîte d'origine. Le film de Moser a été télédiffusé par la BBC le 7 décembre 1967, dans un programme hebdomadaire intiotulé «World in Action». Cette bobine avait été offerte à un intellectuel colombien. De courts extraits du film sont disponibles sur Youtube sous le nom «End Of A Revolution»: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9XRQwnHsM «Brian Moser's rarely shown photographs of Che Guevara were taken in Vallegrande, Bolivia, on October 9 1967, some six hours after the execution of the Cuban-Argentinian guerrilla leader. In their raw intensity they are more extraordinary than the famous shots taken by other photographers who flew in to Vallegrande the following day, after Guevara's body had been cleaned up overnight to look more respectable. Moser's earlier pictures are more dramatic, reflecting the immediacy of death and defeat, and the tense atmosphere surrounding the laundry hut where Guevara's body had been laid out. "On the evening of 8 October 1967 I was walking through the main square of Santa Cruz with my friend Brian Moser, a filmmaker from Granada Television, when a man beckoned to us from his cafe table. He was one of the US officers we had met at La Esperanza. "I have news for you," he said. "About Che?" we asked, for his possible - capture had been on our minds for weeks. "Che has been captured," he told us. "He is severely wounded and he may not last the night. The other guerrillas are fighting desperately to get him back, and the company commander is appealing by radio for a helicopter so that they can fly him out." The commander had been so agitated that his words came out in a jumble. "We've got him, we've got him!" Our contact suggested that we should hire a helicopter to take us at once to the guerrilla zone. He did not know whether Che was
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