Editing Tank Man (section)

== Photographic versions ==
Five photographers managed to capture the event on film.<ref name="NYTimeretrospect">{{cite news |last=Witty |first=Patrick |date=June 3, 2009 |url=https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ |title=Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen |newspaper=The New York Times }}</ref> On June 4, 2009, the fifth photographer released an image of the scene taken from ground level.<ref name="NYTNewPhoto">{{cite news |last=Witty |first=Patrick |date=June 4, 2009 |url=https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/behind-the-scenes-a-new-angle-on-history/ |title=Behind the Scenes: A New Angle on History |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref>

The widest coverage of the event and one of the best-known photographs of the event, appearing in both of the magazines ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', was documented by [[Stuart Franklin]]. He was on the same balcony as [[Charlie Cole (photographer)|Charlie Cole]], and his film was smuggled out of the country by a French student, concealed in a box of tea.<ref name="NYTimeretrospect" />

The most-used photograph of the event was taken by [[Jeff Widener]] of the [[Associated Press]], from a sixth-floor balcony of the [[Beijing Hotel]], about {{convert|1/2|mi|m|sigfig=1|spell=in}} away from the scene. The image was taken using a [[Nikon FE2]] camera through a [[Nikkor]] [[Telephoto lens|400mm 5.6 ED-IF lens]] and [[Nikon TC-301|TC-301]] teleconverter.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tank-man-the-picture-that-almost-wasnt/|title='Tank Man': The Picture That Almost Wasn't|last=Alfano |first=Sean |date=June 4, 2009|publisher=[[CBS News]]}}</ref> The American exchange student Kirk Martsen unexpectedly met Widener in the hotel lobby, and upon request he allowed Widener to take photos from his hotel room.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chinoy |first1=Mike |last2=Yeung |first2=Jessie |title=The man in front of the tank: How journalists smuggled out the iconic Tiananmen Square photo |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/03/china/tiananmen-square-tank-man-photo-intl-hnk/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=5 June 2024 |date=3 June 2024 |quote=I walked up to him and whispered, 'I'm from Associated Press, can you let me up to your room?' He picked up on it right away and said, 'Sure.'  That young man was Kirk Martsen – an American exchange student who snuck Widener into his sixth-floor hotel room.}}</ref> Circumstances were against the photographer, who recalled that the picture was almost not taken.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/11/tank-man-photograph-tiananmen-square-30-years-jeff-widener?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other|title=Thirty years on, the Tiananmen Square image that shocked the world|last=Beaumont|first=Peter|date=12 May 2019|work=The Guardian – Australian edition}}</ref> Widener was injured, suffering from the flu and running out of film. Martsen, the college student, hastily obtained a roll of Fuji 100 ASA color negative film, allowing Widener to make the shot. Martsen then smuggled the film out of the hotel, and delivered it to the Beijing Associated Press office.<ref name="NYTimeretrospect" /> Though he was concerned that his shots were no good, his image was syndicated to many newspapers around the world<ref name="NYTimeretrospect" /> and was said to have appeared on the front page of all European papers.<ref name="NYTimeretrospect" /> He was also nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize]] but did not win. Nevertheless, his photograph has widely been known as one of the most iconic photographs of all time.<ref name="NYTimeretrospect" /><ref name="FloorSpeech" /><ref name="Corless2006" />

[[File:Tankman new longshot StuartFranklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Wider shot by Stuart Franklin showing a column of tanks approaching Tank Man, who is shown near the lower-left corner.]]
[[Charlie Cole (photographer)|Charlie Cole]], working for ''[[Newsweek]]'' and on the same balcony as Stuart Franklin, hid his roll of film containing Tank Man in a Beijing Hotel toilet, sacrificing an unused roll of film and a roll containing undeveloped images of wounded protesters when the [[Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau|PSB]] raided his room, destroyed the two rolls of film and forced him to sign a confession to photography during martial law, an imprisonable offence. Cole was able to retrieve the hidden roll and have it sent to ''Newsweek''.<ref name="NYTimeretrospect" /> He was awarded the 1990 [[World Press Photo]] of the Year<ref name="WorldPressPhoto">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/1990/world-press-photo-year/charlie-cole |website=World Press Photo |title=1990 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year, Charlie Cole }}</ref> and the picture was featured in ''Life''{{'s}} "[[100 Photographs that Changed the World|100 Photographs That Changed the World]]" in 2003.

On June 4, 2009, in connection with the 20th anniversary of the protests, the Associated Press reporter Terril Jones revealed a photo he had taken showing Tank Man from ground level, a different angle from all of the other known photos of Tank Man. Jones wrote that he was not aware of what he had captured until a month later when printing his photos.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Jones|first=Terril|year=2009|title=Tank Man|journal=Pomona College Magazine|volume=41|issue=1 |url=http://pomona.edu/Magazine/PCMFL09/FStankman.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306041054/http://pomona.edu/Magazine/PCMFL09/FStankman.shtml|archive-date=March 6, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Arthur Tsang Hin Wah of [[Reuters]] took several shots from room 1111 of the Beijing Hotel,<ref name="HKPPA">{{cite web|url=http://thehousenews.com/society/%E5%9B%9E%E5%88%B0%E5%A1%B5%E5%9C%9F%E4%BA%BA%E9%96%93-%E6%9B%BE%E9%A1%AF%E8%8F%AF%E8%A8%AA%E8%AB%87/ |title=回到塵土人間 曾顯華訪談 |trans-title=Arthur Tsang Hin Wah interview |date=March 20, 2013|website=thehousenews.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323000048/http://thehousenews.com/society/%E5%9B%9E%E5%88%B0%E5%A1%B5%E5%9C%9F%E4%BA%BA%E9%96%93-%E6%9B%BE%E9%A1%AF%E8%8F%AF%E8%A8%AA%E8%AB%87/ |archive-date=March 23, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> but only the shot of Tank Man climbing the tank was chosen.<ref name="NYTimeretrospect" /> It was not until several hours later that the photo of the man standing in front of the tank was finally chosen. When the staff noticed Widener's work, they re-checked Tsang's negative to see if it was of the same moment as Widener's. On March 20, 2013, in an interview by the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association (HKPPA), Tsang told the story and added further detail. He told HKPPA that on the night of June 3, 1989, he was beaten by students while taking photos and was bleeding. A foreign photographer accompanying him suddenly said, "I am not gonna die for your country", and left. Tsang returned to the hotel. When he decided to go out again, the [[Chinese public security bureau|public security]] stopped him, so he stayed in his room, stood next to the window and eventually witnessed the Tank Man event and took several shots of it.<ref name="HKPPA" />

In addition to the still photography, video footage of the scene was recorded and transmitted across the globe. [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] (ABC) cameraman [[Willie Phua]], Cable News Network ([[CNN]]) cameraman Jonathan Schaer and National Broadcasting Company ([[NBC]]) cameraman Tony Wasserman appear to be the only television cameramen who captured the scene.<ref name="Shooting the 'tank man' of Tiananmen Square">{{cite web|title=Capturing Asia|url=http://www.bobwurth.com/capturing-asia.html|website=Books and Essays by Bob Wurth on the Asia Pacific Region|access-date=15 June 2015|archive-date=February 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205101737/http://bobwurth.com/capturing-asia.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Willie Phua 7.30 report ABC">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkck39jSV-M&t=4m51s Willie Phua on Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 7.30 Report]. [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]. November 29, 1996.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/06/04/4375932-recalling-the-spirit-of-tiananmen|title=Recalling the spirit of Tiananmen|first1=George|last1=Lewis|date=2009-06-04|access-date=2016-11-15|archive-date=May 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509103622/http://worldblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/06/04/4375932-recalling-the-spirit-of-tiananmen|url-status=dead}}</ref> The ABC correspondents Max Uechtritz and Peter Cave were the journalists reporting from the balcony.<ref name="ABC marks 40 years of reporting from China">{{cite news|title=Timeline: ABC marks 40 years of reporting from China|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-01/timeline3a-the-abc-in-china/5062076|access-date=15 June 2015|publisher=ABC News|date=31 October 2013}}</ref>