cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/40655145
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
– John Abernathy
This photo is going to be studied in history books!
Amazing shot
Also I can’t help but laugh at the idea that the photographer in this moment was in fact not taking the guy’s camera…but instead, getting the shot
This is the shot Pulitzer’s are made of TBF.
That camera looks like it was in flight.
His website: https://www.abernathyphoto.com/minneapolisstreetphotographer
Notice his other work:
https://www.abernathyphoto.com/food
See if you can find a pattern that leads to that last shot.
Here are his 2 last pictures he took, along with an update from him on BlueSky.
I take it back, the last shot Abernathy took is the stuff of Pulitzer’s. Holy shit that’s good.
Picture of the year. In January.
Oh god, he meant base plate, not bass plate 🤦
This will end up in history books
winners get to write the history books so guess we will have to see or don’t see
Bystanders write history as well.
It’s being recorded and the world is watching. It will be in some history books but who will have access to those books is a bigger question.
doomer here.
Mankind will extinguish itself and there won’t be any history or its books.
This guy dooms
Didn’t know you could Doom on lemmy
You can run Doom on just about anything.
Wouldn’t that be nice? Too good to be true, though.
The rest of the non-fascist world is watching. The US isn’t the entire world believe it or not
This idea that “history is written by the winners” is bullshit and literally only favors fascists. It’s the main reason for a lot of the “clean wehrmacht” myths and is the entire thing that the “lost cause of the confederacy” thing revolves around.
In one of the John Green history videos, he covers Viking raids on Great Britain. Often, the Vikings left after raiding an area, so the history was written by the surviving “losers”. John’s comment was that in cases like that where history is written by the losers, they are bitter about it.
I think the bitter comment lines up with your examples like the “lost cause” narrative, too.
Neo-Confederates proved that was not the case a long time ago
This picture will be shown in History. It shows in so many ways whats going on and what is at stake. Wow.
Hope that both photographer got Out of that well
Expected to see something like this from Iran, but nooooo.
Hard to get much Out of there atm With internet being Cut Off…
For real. This is photo of the year material.
One year since “Cybertruck on fire in front of Trump building” - seems like new year is ths time for photos of the year!
And it’s only January 17. I don’t look forward to the horrors to which we will bear witness the rest of the year.
Thats what I’m Kind of afraid of …
I fucking hate Getty as a company but this shit is fantastic
Land of the free.
Whoever told you that is your enemy.
Whoever told them that was almost certainly an elementary school teacher who didn’t know any better.
30 years later and the album is just as relevant as the day it released.
I love the classics but does anyone have recs for modern day rebellion music? I saw dropkick Murphy’s released a track “citizen ice” but I would love additional recommendations. Open to any genre that harshly criticizes the current state of ‘gestures broadly’
Grandson is probably the closest still making music. Just went independent last year. Have seen them twice, their shows are like going to a protest. A lot of love and anger in the crowd.
I’ve really been digging Cheap Perfume lately. It’s pure feminine rage, which I’m an absolute sucker for. I would start with “it’s okay to punch Nazis” but I think almost everything on their newest album is pretty good.
Destructo Disk seems pretty good too but I haven’t dug into them as much
I’m also on the hunt for modern day rebellion music.
death grips and machine girl probably
Ehh I listen to both death grips and machine girl and while both are heavy neither are critical of current state
Sum 41 - We’re All To Blame
The theme and antics in the music video are chosen on purpose. And 20 years later are downright prophetic despite being targeted at an entirely different era.
You’re gonna have to dig real deep for that one. Moat, if not all, record labels are zionist owned. It’s why you hear very little about Israel from today’s black hip-hop artists.
Americans do seem to be these daya
Fuck that’s a great pic.
We all love to shit on journalists because most of the time they deserve it, but some of them are honestly doing heroic work and are fundamental in times like these.
And it’s also a great case for why photographers have not been made obsolete by AI, but quite literally the opposite.
I’d argue any “journalist” deserving of being shit on are not doing anything that could be described as “journalism”
Yeah this is what I meant, those that smear the profession
There’s a reason the press is often referred to as “the fourth branch of government”. Journalists that do their job properly are absolutely critical to the proper functioning of a democracy.
We all love to shit on journalists
no, “we all” don’t
“Those that pass themselves as journalists” maybe
Hopefully wins an award.
Which I’m sure Trump will demand he give to him
(but on a less cynical note, I agree, this deserves an award, both for the photographer in the photo and the one who took it)
Photographers and journalists are two separate groups though. Photographers are the admirable ones for collecting facts and putting themselves in actual danger.
Journalists, however, oftentimes take these facts and spin them for ad revenue, political gain, or their own career advancement
oftentimes take these facts and spin them for ad revenue, political gain, or their own career advancement
That’s not a journalist, that’s a propagandist
All journalists are propagandists due to the nature of journalism. The decision, conscious or due to ideological alignment, on what facts to emphasize determines the narrative a journalist is promoting.
Last time the US president surprised the press by invading a country without warning, Panama, the first question asked was “were any US soldiers injured”. This doesn’t require any lies, but it did more to influence the way Americans thought about the surprise war than any lie they could have promoted.
we attacked another country
to
are we hurt?
is crazy work
Unfortunately they’ve been one in the same in the US for many years
Could you not? I work for a citizen journalism network and shit like that is incredibly harmful.
That’s not saying your association is also bad, to the contrary that it’s very much needed to fight back against the “journalism” that is complicit or scared
Any opinion that’s pushed is propaganda, it’s not inherently bad.
I do photography but not really for journalistic documentation, journalists can use photography to do journalism but photography isn’t inherently journalism. Some journalists are more biased than others but they’re all journalists.
I wouldn’t say Fox News hosts are journalists, even though they love to pretend they are. I think they even successfully argued in court that it’s an entertainment program so it shouldn’t be held to proper ethical standards, yet their audience doesn’t take it that way.
TREES ARE FREE ROPE IS CHEAP LYNCHING IS EFFECTIVE
Trees are free rope?
Forgot a few commas I think.
Minnesommalia
Appears to be some kind of Leica M, so could easily could be over $10k of kit.
That is an amazing shot.
