Human Obsticle [sic] -An unidentified man blocks a row of Chinese tanks along Beijings Cangan Blvd. last June in the wake of massive student protest and Government violent crackdown. The man was pulled away by ers and the tanks continued.
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Human Obsticle [sic] -An unidentified man blocks a row of Chinese tanks along Beijings Cangan Blvd. last June in the wake of massive student protest and Government violent crackdown. The man was pulled away by ers and the tanks continued.

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Jeff Widener

Maker
American, b. 1956

Associated Press

American

Human Obsticle [sic] -An unidentified man blocks a row of Chinese tanks along Beijings Cangan Blvd. last June in the wake of massive student protest and Government violent crackdown. The man was pulled away by ers and the tanks continued.

1989
Chromogenic development print
22.9 x 34.7 cm.
Gift of The Associated Press
1990.0466.0016
Inscriptions verso-(caption label) "149 Jeff Widener, Beijing, China 1989
Human Obsticle [sic] -An Unidentified man blocks a row of Chinese tanks along
Beijings Cangan Blvd. last June in the wake of massive student protest
and Government violent crackdown. The man was pulled away by
bystanders and the tanks continued.

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