Historic photograph of Fidel Castro at center of memorial

An honor guard flanks an image of Fidel Castro during a tribute to the late leader at the monument to independence hero Jose Marti, at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. The square will be the site of two days of tributes to Castro. Cuba's government has declared nine days of national mourning following Castro's death Friday night at age 90. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (The Associated Press)

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Students file past a memorial for the late Fidel Castro at a community center in the Ciudad Escolar Libertad neighborhood in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Cubans on Monday began bidding farewell to Castro, the man who ruled the island for nearly half a century. Cuba's government has declared nine days of national mourning following Castro's death Friday night at age 90. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) (The Associated Press)

A woman signs a book of condolences, and a loyalty oath for the late Fidel Castro at the Journalists and Writers Union Federation building in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Cubans on Monday began bidding farewell to Castro, the man who ruled the island for nearly half a century. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan) (The Associated Press)

HAVANA – It's said to be one of Fidel Castro's favorite photographs of himself: a full-length, side view of the young revolutionary with uniform and backpack, looking out into the distance from eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains.

At Havana's Jose Marti Memorial, thousands of mourners filed by the portrait by the late Cuban photographer Alberto Korda (1928-2001) as they paid their respects to Castro, who died Friday. The black-and-white image was also displayed prominently elsewhere around the Cuban capital.

Korda took a number of well-known photographs of Castro, but he was probably best known for his image of Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, wearing a dark beret and a fixed stare.