Busy was the Chinese Communist Party in the first few days after it brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators on June 4, 1989. It produced a series of horrifying photos and a photo book to justify its brutal suppression.
Tag: Communism
The New China by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1959
In 1958, LIFE asked Henri Cartier-Bresson to return to China, a country he last covered in at the outbreak of the Communist takeover in 1949. Cartier-Bresson was largely sympathetic to the Communist cause and was mostly embedded on a guided tour. While his photographs do not present a critique of Communism, he nonetheless witnessed the beginnings of the disastrous Great Leap Forward.
Cuba by Ed van der Elsken, 1967
Ed van der Elsken’s story on Cuba – one of his earliest for Avenue magazine – demonstrated the approach for which he is best known: a depiction of street style, combined with cinema vérite style.
Hungarian Uprising by Paris-Match, 1956
The iconic 1956 Paris Match photo of a young, armed couple during the Hungarian Uprising was attributed to late photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini for extra publicity. Russ Melcher, the photo’s real author, revealed himself decades later.
Khe Sanh by Robert Ellison, 1968
Khe Sanh, 1968. For war critics and news correspondents, it was a miniature microcosm for the War in Vietnam itself: 6,000 US Marines forced to defend an isolated untenable location that the top brass believed to be indispensable, only to abandon it after hundreds of Americans were sacrificed in its defense. A young photographer took these harrowing images of the battle and he didn’t live to see them published.
Shanghai by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1949
Henri Cartier-Bresson spent ten months in China in 1949. LIFE published 26 photos of his in a special report (A Last Look at Peiping).
Hu Jintao is Removed
Kremlinology, they used to call it. Analysis of an opaque obscurantist state, using indirect clues: […]
Portrait of the Artist as A Communist Tyrant
When the Communists first seized power in February 1949, they replaced Chiang Kai-shek not only literally but also on the Tiananmen. The first version of the iconic Mao was a hastily sketched portrait that stood barely a meter tall.
Hungarian Uprising by John Sadovy, 1956
John Sadovy was one of a handful of photojournalists who got into Hungary during its tumultuous revolution in 1956.