Getty photographer throwing his camera to another photographer while being tackled in Minneapolis (USA) to prevent confiscation.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/40655145

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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 pts · 207d (13 replies)

This will end up in history books

verdantbanana@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 207d (12 replies)

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

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 105 pts · 207d (6 replies)

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 pts · 207d (5 replies)

doomer here.

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

diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 207d (3 replies)

This guy dooms

fartographer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 207d (2 replies)

Didn't know you could Doom on lemmy

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 207d

You can run Doom on just about anything.

lefaucet@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 207d

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 207d

Wouldn't that be nice? Too good to be true, though.

NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 31 pts · 207d

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

SalamenceFury@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 207d (1 reply)

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 pts · 207d

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 pts · 207d

Bystanders write history as well.

RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 207d

Neo-Confederates proved that was not the case a long time ago

skozzii@lemmy.ca · 148 pts · 208d (12 replies)

Land of the free.

Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 207d (11 replies)

Whoever told you that is your enemy.

Goodeye8@piefed.social · 13 pts · 207d (8 replies)

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

Sludge@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 207d (7 replies)

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 pts · 207d

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 pts · 207d

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.

DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 207d

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.

ViperActual@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 207d

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.

pedka@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 207d (2 replies)

death grips and machine girl probably

Sludge@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 207d (1 reply)

Ehh I listen to both death grips and machine girl and while both are heavy neither are critical of current state

pedka@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 203d

i'd call them rebellion music, just not towards the government. besides, their lyrics are very abstract and everyone can make out of them what they want.

Drusas@fedia.io · 10 pts · 207d

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

NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 207d

Americans do seem to be these daya

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 87 pts · 207d (1 reply)

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

caboose2006@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 207d

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

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 85 pts · 207d (17 replies)

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 pts · 207d

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 pts · 207d (1 reply)

We all love to shit on journalists

no, "we all" don't

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 207d

"Those that pass themselves as journalists" maybe

laurelraven@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 207d (1 reply)

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 pts · 207d

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

UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 207d (1 reply)

Hopefully wins an award.

laurelraven@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 207d

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)

turkalino@sh.itjust.works · -19 pts · 207d (9 replies)

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

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 207d (6 replies)

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

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 207d (1 reply)

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.

Snazz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d

we attacked another country

to

are we hurt?

is crazy work

turkalino@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 207d (3 replies)

Unfortunately they've been one in the same in the US for many years

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d (2 replies)

Could you not? I work for a citizen journalism network and shit like that is incredibly harmful.

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 207d

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

snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 207d

Any opinion that's pushed is propaganda, it's not inherently bad.

snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 207d (1 reply)

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.

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 207d

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.

DegenerationIP@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 207d (6 replies)
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mirshafie@europe.pub · 20 pts · 207d (3 replies)

For real. This is photo of the year material.

0k_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 207d (1 reply)

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.

DegenerationIP@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d
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perviouslyiner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d

One year since "Cybertruck on fire in front of Trump building" - seems like new year is ths time for photos of the year!

rayyy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d (1 reply)

Expected to see something like this from Iran, but nooooo.

DegenerationIP@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d
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muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 207d

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

LambeauLeap@sopuli.xyz · 45 pts · 207d (3 replies)

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 pts · 207d

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

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 207d (1 reply)

That camera looks like it was in flight.

noredcandy@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 207d

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

Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 207d

Another hero being molested by Trump goons.

Cyberflunk@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 207d (2 replies)
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CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 207d (1 reply)

Trees are free rope?

mondomon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 207d

Forgot a few commas I think.

justaregularthrowaway@lemmynsfw.com · 20 pts · 207d

Picture of the year. In January.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 207d

That is an amazing shot.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 207d (2 replies)

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 pts · 207d (1 reply)

Only the what post?

Krompus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 207d

the T*****s post.

super_user_do@feddit.it · 7 pts · 206d

This photo is going to be studied in history books!

altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 206d

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 pts · 207d

Minnesommalia

baatliwala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d

Beautiful shot

caboose2006@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d

Oh god, he meant base plate, not bass plate 🤦

CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d

Was that from today? I heard there was going to be a (counter?) protest today. Not exactly sure where around the MPLS area, though. Just knew a lot of people were not wanting to be in the cities today.