The image is clearly identified as “Beijing 1989” in the Leica reel. As the BBC points out, what eventually happened to him remains unknown. “Tank Man,” as he is popularly known, became a symbol of both the protests and freedom. One of the pictures featured in the reel is that famous pictures from the Tiananmen Square incident where “’Tank Man’ was a lone protester who brought a column of tanks to a standstill during a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing in 1989.” In a recent commercial showing off their brand, Leica compiled a reel of famous photographs taken during conflicts from around the world according to the BBC. Subsequent events in Tiananmen Square have tempered the enthusiasm generated in us by that trip, but when we went there during that beautiful spring. You never know what will cause an uproar, and every single day seems to bring something new to be outraged about. Posts with the word can no longer be published, and are instead met with a prompt saying the content “violates the relevant laws or Weibo’s community guidelines.But, in the modern climate, it is also riskier than one could even imagine. The word “Leica” in English and Chinese is now censored from Weibo, a social media platform. “This film is dedicated to those who lend their eyes to make us see,” the screen says, commemorating photojournalists working in hostile environments.į/Naza Saatchi & Saatchi, the Brazilian advertising agency that made the video, did not respond to requests for comment.
The five-minute Leica-branded clip follows a Western photographer in a Beijing hotel in 1989 who is confronted by police when he attempts to go outside to document the shooting of student protesters.Īt the end, he manages to get away and hovers by a window, adjusting his camera to shoot the iconic photo, “Tank Man,” a picture of a lone man standing in front of a convoy of tanks. The video, released earlier this week, comes just weeks before the 30 th anniversary of the student-led demonstrations were shut down after Chinese soldiers fired at protesters. The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: pinyin: liùsì shìjiàn), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Chinese: pinyin: Tinnmén) is a 1995 documentary film, produced by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, about the Tiananmen Squ. German camera brand Leica has come under fire in China after the release of a promotional video that features the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The Gate of Heavenly Peace - Part 1 - Tiananmen Square Protests.
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