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Tiananmen Square - "A New Angle on History"

  • 11-06-2009 9:59am
    #1
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Thought i'd post the below link about a picture that has surfaced of 'Tank Man', the famed protester of Tiananmen Square. It gives a unique and different view of an historic event that took place in my lifetime. Obviously the more famous picture of the incident taken from above is ingrained on a lot of peoples memory, but seeing it from a completely different viewpoint makes it even more realistic and scary. I'll let the link tell the story, but its amazing to think it remained buried for so long.

    http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/behind-the-scenes-a-new-angle-on-history/


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  • #2
    La La
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭La La


    that's brilliant. so wonderful seeing it from that perspective. i think with the four other famous shots taken from the beijing hotel (as amazing as they are) there was always a sense that the viewer was removed from what was going on. this is different; it's very immediate and there is a sense of urgency.

    the other four shots are very 'still'. this isn't....there's a hurricane going on around him and even though he isn't centred in it, TM is kind of like the quietness at the centre of a storm. great shot. glad it's been published.


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