Get Jeff Widener Tank Man Photo Gif. Jeff widener's iconic image of tank man. Widener assumed the man would be killed, but the tanks held their fire.
'Tank man' photographer urges China to open up on Tiananmen from s7d2.scene7.com Find and follow posts tagged jeff widener on tumblr. This is why that man in that tiananman square photo is so important. Some of widener's other photographs from tiananmen square are shown in this gallery.
Widener, a photographer with the associated press, was focusing his camera on a line of tanks in beijing's tiananmen square when out of the blue came this man in a white shirt and dark trousers, carrying what appeared to be shopping.
If kirk hadn't been there, the tank man photo would've never been captured. Jeff widener recalls snaking his camera around the corner of a hotel balcony, bullet holes above his head, to snap what's widely regarded as the iconic image of the event. Photographs by jeff widener/ap story by kyle almond, cnn. Jeff widener (born august 11, 1956) is an american photographer, best known for his image of the tank man confronting a column of tanks in tiananmen square in the aftermath of the tiananmen square protests of 1989 which made him a nominated finalist for the 1990 pulitzer.
