Tiananmen Square 30 years ago with the Nikon F-801 is by Terril Jones who shot the fifth view of the “Tank Man”: Student protesters supporting hunger strikers at Tiananmen Square in mid-May, 1989. Photo by Terril Jones. Thirty years ago this week I left China after what was intended to be a week-long stay in Beijing had stretched to 59 days. As a reporter for The Associated Press based in Tokyo, I had gone to Beijing to help with the coverage of the state visit to China by Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the then Soviet Union. But that assignment quickly morphed from covering the historic mending of the three-decade-old Sino-Soviet split to the AP’s 24/7 reporting from Tiananmen Square covering the student-led protests that culminated in the Chinese army’s violent assault on the demonstrators in the square. Protesters swirl past the Xinhua Gate on Changan Boulevard, the ceremonial entrance to Zhongnanhai, the Chinese Communist Party compound in mid-May, 1989. Photo by Terril Jones. The photographs of the man facing down the row of tanks, taken June 5, 1989, the day after the army took back Tiananmen Square amid needless bloodshed, are among the most iconic images of the 20th century. As Nikon Rumors previously noted, the four photographers who took the familiar pictures of the man all used Nikon gear. I also took a photograph that was a fifth view of the man who stopped the tanks, and I too used a Nikon. A defiant protester confronting soldiers at...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Sunday, 14 July, 2019