Enrique Meneses

Enrique Meneses Miniaty (born October 21, 1929 in Madrid ; † January 6, 2013 there ) was a Spanish journalist and photographer .

Live and act

Enrique Meneses made his journalistic debut at the age of 17 when the bullfighter Manolete was killed. In the following years his work drew him to Cuba , Africa and the Balkans, among others . He reported on the Suez crisis , the Bosnian war and other international conflicts. Photos of Picasso , the Dalai Lama and Hussein of Jordan are also among his works.

Meneses achieved his real fame with photos of Fidel Castro , Che Guevara and other guerrilla fighters against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista , taken during his four-month stay in 1957 and 1958 in the Cuban Sierra Maestra . The negatives of the photos he took there, hidden from Batista's security forces, were first smuggled to Miami in a girl's underpants and later appeared in the French magazine Paris Match , thus helping to make the Cuban revolution known around the world. Meneses was arrested by police and beaten during his six days in detention. He never returned to Cuba.

Publications

Fidel Castro: Description of a Revolution . Bechtle, Munich / Esslingen 1968.

Web links

Official website
Enrique Meneses, la gran aventura de ser periodista , obituary in El País of January 7, 2013 (Spanish)
La mirada de Enrique Meneses , gallery of his most famous photos, El País of January 7, 2013 (Spanish)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Fidel Castro photographer, Enrique Meneses, dies , The Telegraph of January 7, 2013 (English)
↑ Enrique Meneses, the primer fotógrafo de la revolución cubana, muere ( Memento of the original of January 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CNN Mexico January 7, 2013 @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Meneses, Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meneses Miniaty, Enrique (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish journalist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madrid
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 2013
Place of death	Madrid

[telegraph-1] Fidel Castro photographer, Enrique Meneses, dies , The Telegraph of January 7, 2013 (English)

[CNN_Mex-2] Enrique Meneses, the primer fotógrafo de la revolución cubana, muere ( Memento of the original of January 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CNN Mexico January 7, 2013 @1@ 2