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Jeff Widener en Grèce, 2010 Avant de prendre cette photo, le 5 juin 1989, Widener a été blessé par un pavé lors d'une manifestation sur le boulevard Chang Ahn. Son appareil photo, un Nikon F3 en titane, a amorti le coup dirigé vers sa tête et lui a sauvé la vie[2],[3] La photo de « L'Homme de Tian'anmen » a été à plusieurs reprises distribuée partout dans le monde (sauf en Chine où elle est interdite), et cette photo est maintenant considérée comme l'une des photos les plus connues dans le monde.
America On Line l'a choisi comme l'une des dix plus célèbres images de tous les temps. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Jeff Widener a grandi en Californie du Sud où il a étudié au Los Angeles Pierce College et a reçu un diplôme en photojournalisme du Collège Moorpark. En 1978, Jeff Widener a commencé comme photographe de presse en Californie et plus tard, dans le Nevada et l'Indiana. Jeff Widener est maintenant basé à Hambourg, en Allemagne. Jeff Widener: The Making of a Photojournalist. “Tank Man” 1989, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China Via Resource MagazineVanessa Oswald April 19, 2013 Resource‘s own Charlie Fish has interviewed Associated Press photographer Jeff Widener for our Spring 2013 Issue.
The article, which includes iconic photographs taken one day after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, is featured below: By Jeff Widener – Words by Charlie Fish For seven weeks in the spring of 1989, student protesters occupied Tiananmen Square, located in the heart of Beijing. . © Jeff Widener/ Associated Press However, a crackdown soon ensued. On June 5th, 1989, one day after the violence, as a column of 35-ton battle tanks barreled along Chang’an Avenue, a lone man carrying two shopping bags stood on the avenue, determined to halt the procession with nonviolence.
Resource interviewed Jeff, whose eloquent retelling of the events surrounding that fateful day is candid, gripping, and harrowing. A Conversation with Jeff Widener. Chances are that in your lifetime, you’ve seen the iconic “Tank Man” photograph.
The year was 1989. A man standing alone before a line of tanks on Chang’an Avenue near Tiananmen Square. It’s a picture that’s inspired people all over the world. It’s also been heavily suppressed in the very country it was taken. Jeff Widener is the man behind the photograph, which he says was a “lucky shot”. PetaPixel: Can you talk about your background and how you came to be a photographer? Jeff Widener: One day while living in Scottsdale Arizona in 1963, my father Don Widener brought a Life Magazine friend over to the house to make some family pictures. As the years progressed, I became fixated with cameras. My parents were aware of the scam and gifted it to me on graduation. Then in my senior year of high school I made the difficult decision to transfer to Reseda High School which had a government funded color darkroom under the direction of legendary instructor Warren King. 1987 Battambong Cambodia.
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