Published on the occasion of the exhibition presented by the Musée de l'Elysée, in Lausanne, from June 4 to August 24, 2014, then by the A. Stichting Foundation, in Brussels, from April 28 to June 28, 2015.

" I made more than 1400 films of 36 frames in Cuba and about the same number in Latin America. But does that mean anything? It's like a writer who notes and has drafts. "

Luc Chessex

" In June 1961, Swiss photographer Luc Chessex emigrated to Cuba to experience the Castro revolution and bear witness to this experience through images. Having left for a year, he ultimately remained in Havana for 14 years before being expelled.

A committed photographer, Chessex did not fall into the trap of making icons, even if the spectacle of the revolution allowed him to take many famous and widely distributed portraits, such as those of Fidel Castro or Che Guevara.

In 1970, he went to Bolivia, where Che was assassinated in 1967. He notes that the effigy of Guevara is omnipresent in Latin American cities and that these images rival Coca-Cola advertising. Two icons then dispute the landscape and Chessex makes it an astonishing subject which gives birth to this book, CCCC. "

Seventy-four photographs in black and white, full page and full bleed.

Each photograph is located and dated at the head of the section: Castro, Coca, Che.

Introduction by Daniel GIRARDIN

Luc CHESSEX, Lausanne, 1936