Is This The Photo That Will Define The Trump Era?

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Excerpted from a longer piece by Alyssa Rosenberg for WaPo

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There are some images that instantly and indelibly define an era in history. Photographer Bob Jackson caught the moment when Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the basement of the Dallas police station, Oswald collapsing inwards on himself, his eyes closed, his mouth open in a wince of pain, or surprise, or both. In Saigon during the Tet Offensive, Eddie Adams took a photo precisely as a bullet from South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan’s .38 revolver ripped through Nguyen Van Lem’s skull. In 1995, Charles H. Porter IV shot a photograph of firefighter Chris Fields tenderly carrying 1-year-old Baylee Almon out of the wreckage at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, where she and 167 other people were killed by domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh.

Now we have that image for our own era: Daily Progress photographer Ryan M. Kelly’s picture of James Alex Fields Jr.’s Dodge Challenger slamming into a crowd of people who had come to Charlottesville to stand against the white supremacists who were rallying there. Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was killed, and 19 others were injured, some of them critically.

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This period in America is increasingly defined by violence and rage. And while Kelly’s photograph captures those elements, it gives us something more, too: The picture is a visual expression of simply how strange America feels right now.

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This is a great time to reprint the following short post we ran back in May…

One the right is 16-year-old Lucie Myslikova, a Girl Scout and film and animation student from the Czech city of Brno.

Her story — and the photo shown below — has gone viral. You can read it here.

For our purposes, suffice to say that Lucie, much like us, thinks you can take the bigoted xenophobia that’s sweeping the globe thanks in no small part to populism anno 2017 and the far-Right candidates pushing it, and shove it right up your ass...

Lucie

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One thought on “Is This The Photo That Will Define The Trump Era?

  1. This is very important for everyone to see because it tells the story of, where we are, how we got here, where we are going and what we are going to do about it. This one photo is part of that story, the ending has yet to told. So America, fu*king tell IT.

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