Tank Man, Jeff Widener, 1989
This picture was taken on June 5, 1989, a day after the Chinese army had massacred the pro-democracy demonstrators. The photographer, Jeff Widener from the Associated Press, was sitting in his hotel balcony waiting to document the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He was taking pictures of the victims and other people on the street when he came across this sight. A man standing in the path of the tanks and refusing to let them proceed.