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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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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 152 points 4 months ago (36 children)

On one hand, I'm hesitant to keep up something this recent as 'history'.

On the other hand, Jesus fucking Christ, I hate living through history.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (18 children)

I understand if you want to take it down. I'm not sure on the technical requirements of a historic photograph. This did strike me as one however.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 36 points 4 months ago (17 children)

I think I'll leave it up for now for visibility's sake, but I'll probably remove it because it doesn't fit the 'archive' of things. I feel like at least a few years should pass before something is history.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago

!remindme 50 years

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