Photographer Recalls Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' Moment
When Stuart Franklin (pictured), from a distance, started snapping on June 5, 1989 pictures of a man standing in protest in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, he had no idea the image would become so iconic. In his Guardian remembrance of that moment, he suggests that TV coverage of the overall events and that individual’s slow boil were equally responsible for the image’s impact.
In the Franklin essay, there is also an important lesson for all current and future international-conflict stringers and journalists: ignore those First World stomach pangs! Unlike many colleagues, Franklin – on assignment for Time magazine via agency Magnum Photos – and his Newsweek cohort Charlie Cole had stayed put at a nearby hotel.
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