“There was a long line of tanks approaching from the Square and I thought it might be a nice compression shot.”
Widener shot the most famous photo of 1989 injured, on one roll of film an exchange student begged off a hotel guest. The same student hid the film in his underwear to get it past the police. On the anniversary this year, Bing returned no image results for “tank man.” Thirty-two years later, the censors are still working on the picture.