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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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Getty photographer throwing his camera to another photographer while being tackled at Minneapolis's Whipple Building in Minnesota USA to prevent confiscation. (infosec.pub)
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This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.

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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.

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 55 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can I cast a vote for keeping it? History is happening right now, and it needs to be seen. Were it a more mundane event, I might share your opinion that it needs to wait before it is history, but this is part of a wave of events that is changing life now, and for the future.

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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

I would say that this is definitely a snapshot of recent history, and it will reverberate for years to come.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'll sit on the thought for a bit. Please remember, though, that this comm is not meant to be for news, no matter how important.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

But on the third hand, that photo though. I'd not be surprised to see it at this year's World Press Photo exhibition. What it lacks in history it makes up for in the photo part.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

We're making history here in US, and it's very similar to historical Germany