The Corpse of Che Guevara

A surreal scene of death on display and the unmasking of an "anonymous" photographer.

On October 10, 1967, the body of Che Guevara was put on display after his execution by the Bolivian army. Several photographers captured the surreal scene in the laundry room of a hospital in rural Vallegrande, Bolivia. The most widely-published photo was made by Marc Hutten, a correspondent for Agence France-Presse. Hutten’s is the only version in colo…