From Eugène Delacroix’s 1830 painting "Liberty Leading The People" to Tiananmen Square’s “Tank Man” revolutions and revolts in popular conscience are often distilled to a singular iconic image.
With that in mind the Boston Globe recently published a gallery of stirring photos of the recent popular revolt against Ben Ali in Tunisia.
The runaway favorite was this image, depicting a Tunisian man clutching a baguette and a limp cigarette in his mouth. The image became rapidly popular across the blogosphere.
Even the normally somber blog of the Middle East Institute used the image.
Weather or not this image spreads remains to be seem far to often deserving photos such as the great image of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro golfing in military uniforms (here) are thrown on the scrap heap of history.
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