Memorable photograph, a meme
This particular image has been etched upon my brain since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. This lone man, standing up to armored tanks as they rolled into the square to crush the demonstration by students, is a shining example of bravery and courage. It seemed as if democracy was going to spread around the world at the time, with the Berlin Wall being torn down later that same year. A time of hope and optimisim that just may have been set in motion by a lone soul, in a picture seen around the world.
The power of one.
Is there a particular photograph that resonates with you? Post it at your blog and tell us about it.
14 comments:
That is one of history's most powerful pictures.
I'll have to think a bit and go searching. I think your challenge (meme) is a great one, Brad!
A friend of mine is working on a novel that involves that photograph.
When I was teaching in Beijing, my junior college students (who were probably 5 or 6 at the time of the Tiananmen protests) insisted that the protestors had guns. So I asked, "If they had guns, how many Chinese soldiers were killed?"
It's amazing how easily we all tend to believe the crap our goverments tell us.
More of a video than a picture, but the Berlin Wall coming down -- for much the same reasons as your choice.
Now THIS is an excellent post my friend - let me look for mine and I will post it on warm fuzzy Friday tomorrow... what a GREAT idea - SEE - I TOLD YOU - you are the smart brother!
There really isn't any photograph that resonates with me except one I took once that has since been lost (yay technology)...
It was a picture from Ground Zero -- pretty much the only monumental, world changing event I was alive for and remember (I mean, I was alive for Tiananmen Square but I was two :P).
We were there for a field trip in high school. One of my classmates came storming over to myself and my friends, outraged because he'd seen some grafitti on the site. We went over to check it out, and we had to get a picture.
It was a message in red permanent marker from a little kid to his dad about how much he missed him.
A couple of the girls cried, a couple of the jocks reamed out our classmate who'd been mad about it. I snapped the photo.
Damn, I wish I still had that picture.
Great shot. It would be tough to nail one pic down. I will have to rack my brain on this one.
it is truly a very powerful statement of both peace and hope. the photos that marked me aren't quite do positive in nature. the most memorable ones for me, that are singed in my brain aren't ones that i'd post on my belog.
GREAT meme! For me the pic that stands out most is of the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up, I still remember the "Y" made by the smoke in the sky.
That's really a great picture, and a great idea for a meme. I will have to search my little brain for a picture that had an impact on me.
I love the photograph of John Kennedy Jr saluting his father's coffin as it passed.
I wish I had a picture of one of my most powerful memes. Alas, I only have it in my head and heart: March 15, 1994, at the Boise Airport, Gate 10. My dad in a wheelchair, on his oxygen, unable to hold his head up. Lou Gehrig's Disease. Me on my way to England...having his terrible feeling that I'd not see him again. I, truly and literally, threw myself on the ground in front of his chair, put my head in his lap, and sobbed. I'm sure it wasn't pretty. Nonetheless, it's forever in my mind. He died four days later. I had to return.
Brad- great photo. The first thing I thought of for mine was the Berlin Wall. It wasn't as much the actual event, as what happened afterwards. I posted it on my blog.
I added this as a theme on GMR - for the next month :)
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