Los Fantasmas de Ñancahuazú, or The Ghosts of Ñancahuazú, was inspired by the publication of a photograph over forty years ago. In 1967, the international media printed a photograph that seemed to confirm the death of Ernesto Che Guevara. Critic John Berger reacted by writing an essay putting into question the way we view images in the news.
Writer and visual artist Leandro Katz was inspired to seek out the photographer of that image, Freddy Alborta, to investigate what led to it, and by extension, what happened during the final few months of Guevara’s campaign. This book is a record of Katz’s research and includes photographs by Alborta; a foreword by Eduardo Grüner; essays by John Berger, Jean Franco, Mariano Mestman and Jeffrey Skoller; and a DVD entitled El Dia Que Me Quieras that reflects on the last pictures taken of Guevara as he lay dead, surrounded by his captors in Bolivia. With text in both Spanish and English.
