Sunday 3 May 2009

Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin
Tiananman Square
1989
Beijing, China

What interests me about this image is that Charlie Cole took and published a similar image that went on to win the World Press Photo award but Franklin's image seems to be re-produced far more often. Extreme case of right place right time perhaps?

1989 - World Press Photo, Charlie Cole

I read in the book Magnum Stories that Cole and Franklin were actually sharing the same hotel room and the two obviously saw an opportunity to shoot and as a result took similar images.

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