Is This Photo Amazing Or Whats Your Take On It?

[piggynose]

well what do you think? Media URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36759711
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[gness]

Would you two stop bickering now...you're keeping me awake!

Will look at pic tomorrow, AP......my specs are on the bedside table beside the teeth.....x

[-Talbot-]

:0/

[Svejk]

No.

[waterboatman]

I salute the lady. She seems to be the only one with any kind of sense!

[naomi24]

A highly selective image that belies reality but nevertheless elicits an emotional response from enthusiastic virtual signallers, which is precisely what it is designed to do.

I looked at the video posted by Talbot at 23:47 Mon. I saw her being led away – not ‘sprawled on the ground in disarray being arrested’, as has been claimed.

Talbot’s link at 23:39 Mon is worth reading and digesting. Well said that man! The race card embellished with the victim mentality reigns.

[naomi24]

Oops.... virtue signallers - not virtual ..... although either will do. ;o)

[mikey4444]

I think its a marvelous photo and one destined to be viewed again and again, for many years to come.

[Peter Pedant]

it is an eemarj - or icon
was it really like that ?

I would like to see the video associated and context
altho I agree the context now doesnt matter to what the message has become

as it is meant to say Something Else entirely
and succeeds in that

and joins the image of sticking the flower down the muzzle of a Russian soldier re-occupying Prague in 1968

or the GI kissing the gurl in gay Paree in Aug 1944

and DOESN'T join the image of the fella standing in front of tanks in Tianen Mun Sq - cos he got run over in the end


so here the Image really IS the message ( I think )

[ n this is not a Dave Spart spoof from Private Eye ]

[naomi24]

//so here the Image really IS the message //

Yes. The message here is 'select a frame that will engender sympathy and ignore reality' - and it works.

[-Talbot-]

Tired this morning ... just tried to give naomi best answer.

I bet the photographer wished that video didn't exist, it takes away an awful lot from the photo.

[Peter Pedant]

do we have the viddie ?

I sort of made all mine up - where is the context etc..

surprised and delighted to be agreeing with Ni
after so many feline spats in the past

[Peter Pedant]

O talbo can you press the zubber on the University Challenge thread please ?

[naomi24]

Talbot, //I bet the photographer wished that video didn't exist//

I think he's safe. The virtue signallers don't seem to be looking at it.

[-Talbot-]

I'm too square for that thread PP.
And also too sexy for this shirt I'm wearing.

[dannyk13]

A very brave young lady.Wonderful image.

[mikey4444]

I agree Danny.....can't really understand all the usual carping and moaning from The Glums though !

[naomi24]

Failing to look further than your nose renders understanding impossible.

[anneasquith]

Back to the original question....... It would appear the majority of posters find the photograph quite iconic :-)

[naomi24]

^Indeed - even though it belies reality.

[Gromit]

An iconic photo.
An instant classic.
Tells you you more about the situation than 10,000 words can.

- Banksey will be making his stencils at this very moment.