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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

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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 233 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This will end up in history books

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago (5 children)

winners get to write the history books so guess we will have to see or don't see

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 105 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

doomer here.

Mankind will extinguish itself and there won't be any history or its books.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didn't know you could Doom on lemmy

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

You can run Doom on just about anything.

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[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 31 points 1 month ago

The rest of the non-fascist world is watching. The US isn't the entire world believe it or not

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Bystanders write history as well.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 149 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whoever told you that is your enemy.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

30 years later and the album is just as relevant as the day it released.

[–] Sludge@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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'

[–] Fear_and_loathing@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago

Whoever told them that was almost certainly an elementary school teacher who didn't know any better.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 87 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here are his 2 last pictures he took, along with an update from him on BlueSky.

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I take it back, the last shot Abernathy took is the stuff of Pulitzer's. Holy shit that's good.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 87 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We all love to shit on journalists

no, "we all" don't

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

"Those that pass themselves as journalists" maybe

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd argue any "journalist" deserving of being shit on are not doing anything that could be described as "journalism"

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah this is what I meant, those that smear the profession

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 month ago

I fucking hate Getty as a company but this shit is fantastic

[–] LambeauLeap@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

This is the shot Pulitzer's are made of TBF.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That camera looks like it was in flight.

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[–] noredcandy@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Appears to be some kind of Leica M, so could easily could be over $10k of kit.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Another hero being molested by Trump goons.

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TREES ARE FREE ROPE IS CHEAP LYNCHING IS EFFECTIVE

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mondomon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Forgot a few commas I think.

Picture of the year. In January.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That is an amazing shot.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oddly, when I search for it in Google or Bing, it doesn't show up; but when I ask Google Assistant about a photograph of reporter throwing his camera to another reporter on FB, it returns only the T*****s post.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 7 points 1 month ago

This photo is going to be studied in history books!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Darkness343@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Minnesommalia

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