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 will end up in history books
winners get to write the history books so guess we will have to see or don't see
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.
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.
Bystanders write history as well.
Land of the free.
Whoever told you that is your enemy.
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.
Whoever told them that was almost certainly an elementary school teacher who didn't know any better.
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.
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.
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
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
Hopefully wins an award.
I fucking hate Getty as a company but this shit is fantastic
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.
Appears to be some kind of Leica M, so could easily could be over $10k of kit.
Another hero being molested by Trump goons.
Picture of the year. In January.
That is an amazing shot.
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.
Only the what post?
the T*****s post.
This photo is going to be studied in history books!
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.
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