Dead Chinese-Beijing citizens yell oaths against the government as they gather around the body of a man who died when an armoured personnel carrier on its way to Tiananmen Square crashed through a which had been stopped by people Saturday night.

Dead Chinese-Beijing citizens yell oaths against the government as they gather around the body of a man who died when an armoured personnel carrier on its way to Tiananmen Square crashed through a which had been stopped by people Saturday night.

Photograph

Mark Avery

Maker
American, b. 1960

Dead Chinese-Beijing citizens yell oaths against the government as they gather around the body of a man who died when an armoured personnel carrier on its way to Tiananmen Square crashed through a which had been stopped by people Saturday night.

June 1989
Chromogenic development print
24.4 x 19.3 cm.
Gift of The Associated Press
1990.0466.0005
Inscriptions verso-(caption label) "100. Mark Avery, Beijing, China, June 4, 1989
Dead Chinese-Beijing citizens yell oaths against the government as
they gather around the body of a man who died when an armoured
personnel carrier on its way to Tiananmen Square crashed through a
troop convoy which has been stopped by people Saturday night."
her hand over his head from behind."
(in ink) "100"

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