Tank Man, June 5, 1989

Inscription

across top printed in image: (BEJ-15)BEIJING, June 5 (AP)-BRAVE MAN--A Chinese man stands in front of / tanks heading east down Cangan Bvd. Monday morning in front of the Beijing / Hotel stopping their advance as he cried and pleaded for an end to the killing. / The man was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way. / (AP ColorPhoto) (ma21644stf/jeff widener) 1989 / AP LEAFAX ----- MAGENTA ----- AP LEAFAX; on verso, by unknown hand, top center in blue ink: (China - Demonstrations) 1989 [underlined]; upper left printed in black ink on applied paper: FR DEC 8 - 1989 / Left: An East German peered through a hole in the Berlin / Wall after freedom-loving Germans started dismantling the / barrier. Above: A gutsy Chinese protester stopped a tank. [underlined in blue ink]; upper center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: TU JUN 6 1989; upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: AP photo / A Chinese man stops a line of tanks in Beijing Monday.; upper center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: TH MAY 31 1990 LA 3; upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: THIS PHOTO of a lone man trying to stop a column of / Chinese tanks during the AP photo /1989 uprising became a / symbol of the failed democracy movement. The man / was reported later to be dead.; upper center printed in black ink on applied sticker: LIBR[ARY]; upper right printed in black ink on applied sticker: RETURN / TO / LIBRARY; upper right stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: SU DEC 31 1989; upper right printed in black ink on applied newspaper: AP photo / A lone Chinese man faced down a tank in Beijing.; lower right printed in black ink on applied sticker: ARCHIVED

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

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