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89學運六四血腥鎮壓之後,毫無真相,被全世界批判,只有他馬英九稱贊有進步,幹!如果是他被殺戮我還會譴責兇手阿!

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NYT’s photo blog Lens tracked down the 4 photographers who captured the iconic image of the unknown person blocking the tanks 20 years ago in Tiananmen Square. The stories behind the pictures are fascinating.

As the tanks neared the Beijing Hotel, the lone young man walked toward the middle of the avenue waving his jacket and shopping bag to stop the tanks. I kept shooting in anticipation of what I felt was his certain doom. But to my amazement, the lead tank stopped, then tried to move around him. But the young man cut it off again. Finally, the PSB (Public Security Bureau) grabbed him and ran away with him. Stuart and I looked at each other somewhat in disbelief at what we had just seen and photographed.

I think his action captured peoples’ hearts everywhere, and when the moment came, his character defined the moment, rather than the moment defining him. He made the image. I was just one of the photographers. And I felt honored to be there.

…In my opinion, it is regretful that this image alone has become the iconic “mother” of the Tiananmen tragedy. This tends to overshadow all the other tremendous work that other photographers did up to and during the crackdown. Some journalists were killed during this coverage and almost all risked being shot at one time or another… A host of others contributed to the fuller historical record of what occurred during this tragedy and we should not be lured into a simplistic, one-shot view of this amazingly complex event.

(I know this link has been doing the rounds, but I couldn’t help it… Lens’s post was a perfect convergence of my interest in China and in photography, and set off a little thrill in my heart.)