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The picture shows Tamara Bunke, also known as »Tania la Guerillera«. She joined the cuban revolutionaries in 1961 and died 1967 in Bolivia.
 
Looks like an early japanese fixed lens rangefinder like a yashica GSN/minolta etc or maybe a yashica 35 or YK?

Thats my (mis)informed guess :)
 
possibly the picture has inverted left and right?
if not - has there ever been a camera for left handers?
 
That little round thing just under the shutter reminds me of my Konica/Ward Auto S (older brother to the Auto S2), and the year is about right. Unfortunately the rest of the VF doesn't look right.

A Konica III looks fairly close too.

It's not a Yashica or Minolta or Canonet.
 
Thsi image would not have been shot in a mirror, the negative was printed the wrong way around. (flopped)
 
FrankS said:
Thsi image would not have been shot in a mirror, the negative was printed the wrong way around. (flopped)
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Actually I thought at first it was flopped until I saw the shape of the lens is distorted so also I think it is shot into a reflective surface of some kind, not necessarily a mirror (probably NOT a mirror).
 
fdigital said:
Looks like an early japanese fixed lens rangefinder like a yashica GSN/minolta etc or maybe a yashica 35 or YK?

Thats my (mis)informed guess :)
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That was my first reaction, too. It does look like a Yashica Electro. Of course, an inverted photo of a left-eyed shooter is going to mess with the right-eyed shooters' minds... :angel:
 
I'm guessing it's one of the earlier Petri rf's, maybe one of the 'Color Corrected Super' models? The small, round badge is pushing me in that direction..

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My guess Petri 7s, small round badge and the sloping side to the middle window. I just went and got mine and held it up for comparison. God aren't we sad !!:rolleyes: I won't even begin to tell you what my family said!!!
 
This is unbelivable! I was thinking about the same picture when I was reading the Che Guevara's diary of Bolivia. This picture is among the pictures in my edition.
By the way there is another interesting one: Che self portrait but as an older person because in the first time in Bolivia he played an older figure, a businessman - to avoid the authorities and he made a self portrait of himself in a hotel.

Other question: is it true that Tamara was a member of STASI (the communist, east german secret service)?

Finally, I think it's a japanese camera - a soviet one could be more suspicious for a foreign guerilla who is the connection of the guerilla group with the outside world.
 
Superbus, I found the picture in an article about a new book which is said to proof that she was neither in the STASI nor in the KGB.

The book's named "Tania" by Ulises Estrada, a former cuban secret agent who trained her for her mission in Bolivia.
A former MfS agent blamed her to be a tripple agent, a former cuban agent now says she wasn't.
The author was here to read from his book last week, but I missed it.
 
Socke said:
Superbus, I found the picture in an article about a new book which is said to proof that she was neither in the STASI nor in the KGB.

The book's named "Tania" by Ulises Estrada, a former cuban secret agent who trained her for her mission in Bolivia.
A former MfS agent blamed her to be a tripple agent, a former cuban agent now says she wasn't.
The author was here to read from his book last week, but I missed it.
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This story is very interesting. The other queston: Was it a good idea to make photograph about the guerilla members? Now our answer is no, because the Bolivian army had found the pictures and it was useful for them to recognize the guerillas. On the other hand in case of a more succesful guerilla war Che and his friends lately could use it as a propaganda tool just like the first day's photos and films about Castro and his soldiers in the Cuban revolution.
 
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