摄影:Peter Turnley
5 月 15 日,苏联领导人戈尔巴乔夫在人民大会堂拜访邓小平,当天有 30 多万中国学生和工人在天安门广场举行抗议活动,要求在中国实现更大的自由和民主。(Turnley)特恩利被指派拍摄这次历史性会晤,但他无法到达人民大会堂,于是决定拍摄人民。“街上的人们比握手更重要"。
Photograph by Peter Turnley, Corbis
More than 300,000 Chinese students and workers protested in Tiananmen Square asking for greater freedom and democracy in China on May 15, the day Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Deng Xiaoping in the Great Hall of the People. Turnley, assigned to film that historic meeting, was unable to reach the hall and decided to photograph the people instead. "The people in the streets were more important than the handshake."