June 04, 2009

Tiananmen Tank Man photo emerges

This is one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century. It shows a lone man standing in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989.

Now, twenty years later, a new photo of the same man has surfaced. It was taken just minutes before the above photo was taken. He can be seen in the left background, moving out into the square toward the tanks.

The stories of the photographers at those links are remarkable.

Posted by Linkmeister at June 4, 2009 01:42 PM | TrackBack
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Tank Man lives. Updates of this iconic image are all over the Web today. Here, for example:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/20th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-square/

Posted by: Mike at June 4, 2009 04:36 PM

I often shake my head when I hear that the Chinese government is once again repressing all mention of Tiananmen Square and the famous photo. They can control it in China itself but it's always going to surface in the rest of the world. Do they really believe that, if they deny it long enough, the rest of the world will forget?

Posted by: Illanoy Gal at June 6, 2009 01:50 AM