Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 405

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CHINA)
A group of 30 press photographs documenting the bloody culmination of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing.


The series depicts the events of June 3-5, showing student protestors, hurt individuals, tanks, soldiers sitting in the square, barricades, captured tanks, and more from the clashes between pro-democracy youths and the People's Liberation Army. A few from Reuters and the remainder from the Agence France-Presse (AFP); two of the photographs show concurrent protests in Chicago. Wire service press photos, the images measuring 4 3/8x7 to 9 1/4x6 1/4 inches (11.1x17.8 to 23.5x15.9 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a caption in the image. 1989