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    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Charlie Cole
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Newsweek
    • Category World Press Photo of the Year
    • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
    • Date 04-06-1989
    • Country China
    • Place Tiananmen Square, Beijing
    • Caption A demonstrator confronts a line of People's Liberation Army tanks during protests for democratic reform.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Charlie Cole
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Newsweek
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 04-06-1989
    • Country China
    • Place Tiananmen Square, Beijing
    • Caption A demonstrator confronts a line of People's Liberation Army tanks during protests for democratic reform.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Ron Haviv
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse for Time
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-05-1989
    • Country Panama
    • Place Panama City
    • Caption Opposition candidate Guillermo Ford is beaten by a pro government Dignity Battalion member during election violence. "Sabotage by uninvited foreigners" was the official reason General Noriega gave for declaring the presidential elections of 7 May invalid. The general held on to power until the end of the year.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Gilles Saussier
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Romania
    • Place Timisoara
    • Caption Soldiers under fire in Timisoara, a name which became a battle-cry of the Romanian revolution. For a long time it looked as if the tide of change sweeping over Eastern Europe would pass Romania by, but the arrest of a clergyman in Timisoara sparked the first anti-communist riots.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Anthony Suau
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for U.S. News & World Report
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1989
    • Country West Germany
    • Caption After hammering at the concrete throughout the night, West Germans attempt to climb the Berlin Wall at dawn, but they are repulsed by police with a water-cannon. www.archive.anthonysuau.com
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer David Turnley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press / Black Star
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1989
    • Country Romania
    • Caption Start of a new era. Taking over former President Nicolae Ceausescu's office. Twenty-four years after Ceausescu established himself as dictator, the army turned against him and took over his office at the Communist Party headquarters. Ceausescu and his wife attempted to flee the country, but they were subsequently arrested and executed.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Stuart Franklin
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1989
    • Country China
    • Place Tiananmen Square, Beijing
    • Caption The enthusiasm of demonstrating youth is not dampened by a sudden thunderstorm.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Anthony Suau
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for U.S. News & World Report
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country West Germany
    • Place West Berlin
    • Caption At the Brandenburg Gate West Berliners wave flags at East German border guards. In January East German leader Erich Honecker said he expected the Berlin Wall to endure for another century. By November it had become an anachronism - and so had Honecker. Hundreds of thousands of East Germans fled their country by various routes until the government decided on 9 November to allow free travel to the West. Two days later the frustration that had been building up over nearly three decades was finally unleashed on the symbol of division that the wall had become. www.archive.anthonysuau.com
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Christopher Morris
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Panama
    • Caption US invasion of Panama during Operation Just Cause. By December, General Noriega's days as president were numbered as the US responded to his declaration of war. Noriega was eventually tracked down where he had sought asylum in a Vatican embassy.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Stuart Franklin
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 04-06-1989
    • Country China
    • Place Beijing
    • Caption A column of T59 People's Liberation Army tanks makes its way from Tiananmen Square during demonstrations for democratic reform.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Dod Miller
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication The Observer
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 23-12-1989
    • Country Romania
    • Place Bucharest
    • Caption The Romanian revolution: Tanks in Palace Square.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Jacques Langevin
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Sygma
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-06-1989
    • Country China
    • Place Chang'An Avenue, Beijing
    • Caption 3-4 June. After the passing of the first tanks on the main avenue leading to Tiananmen Square, students throw stones, their only weapon, at the army convoy.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Eric Bouvet
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Iran
    • Place Tehran
    • Caption Chaos reigns the streets at the funeral procession for the Ayatollah Khomeini, who died at the age of 89. Among the millions of mourners giving free reign to their grief, several people were crushed to death; many more fainted and suffered injuries.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Edward Ettinger
    • Nationality Poland
    • Organization / Publication Ogonyok
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-07-1989
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Place Siberia
    • Caption The first nationwide strike in the Soviet Union. Although miners are relatively well paid, the strike spread rapidly across the country. When half a million miners, representing 40 per cent of Soviet coal production, had downed tools, most of their demands were met.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer David Turnley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press / Black Star
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country China
    • Caption May - June. A woman pleads with soldiers in a convoy for Beijing, asking them to quench the growing pro-democracy movement spreading from the universities.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Liu Heung Shing
    • Nationality China
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category News Features
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 05-06-1989
    • Country China
    • Place Beijing
    • Caption Unaware of the army's presence above them, a young couple hesitate to leave the relative protection of an underpass. In this period authorities were reasserting their control of the country.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Kenneth Jarecke
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category News Features
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1989
    • Country China
    • Place Beijing
    • Caption Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army guarding Zhongnanhai, Beijing's seat of power, face a student on a hunger strike.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Thierry Chesnot
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Sipa Press
    • Category News Features
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-12-1989
    • Country Romania
    • Place Bucharest
    • Caption Soldiers interrupt their battle with the Securitate secret police to share a bite to eat. Whenever the fighting died down, citizens flooded the street.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Andrei Soloviev
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication ITAR-TASS
    • Category News Features stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Place Baku, Azerbaijan
    • Caption One hundred thousand demonstrators gather at the foot of Lenin's statue. As nationalists all over the Soviet Union clamoured for autonomy, ethnic strife hit many of the outlying republics where some 140 million non-Russians live.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Natalie Fobes
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category News Features stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country USA
    • Place Alaska
    • Caption An army of workers are mobilized to clean up the coastline after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in the worst oil disaster in US history. An area the size of New Jersey in Prince William Sound was covered with a thick blanket of oil and 1,609km of the state's rocky coast became badly contaminated.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Eric Bouvet
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category News Features stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Iran
    • Place Tehran
    • Caption Chaos reigns the streets at the funeral procession for the Ayatollah Khomeini, who died at the age of 89. Among the millions of mourners giving free reign to their grief, several people were crushed to death; many more fainted and suffered injuries.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Vladimir Fedorenko
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication RIA Novosti
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1989
    • Caption Dubbed 'man of the decade' by Time magazine, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is surrounded by some of the 2,250 members of the new Congress of People's Deputies. Although the Communist Party continued to dominate Soviet politics, important changes were afoot, such as Gorbachev's call for elections of this new Congress.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Georges Merillon
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Romania
    • Place Bucharest
    • Caption At a Warsaw Pact meeting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toasts his host, Romania's long-time president Nicolae Ceausescu. It was to be the last meeting between the two.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer David Turnley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press / Black Star
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Czechoslovakia
    • Place Wenceslas Square, Prague
    • Caption In a symbolic gesture, former Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek embraces the crowd that has gathered. The man who tried to introduce 'socialism with a human face', in the spring of 1968 had to wait more than 20 years to see his dream realized.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Tomas Muscionico
    • Nationality Switzerland
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 24-11-1989
    • Country Czechoslovakia
    • Place Prague
    • Caption Upon hearing an announcement of the fall of the Central Committee of Czechoslovak Communist Party, the two main champions of change, Alexander Dubcek and Vaclav Havel, embrace at the Laterna Magica Theatre. In November it was Czechoslovakia's turn to usher in a new era. The way to the presidency lay open for human rights leader and playwrite, Havel, who was installed as President of Czechoslovakia on December 29.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Lev Sherstennikov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Ogonyok
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Caption Yelena Bonner at the funeral of her husband Andrei Sakharov. A brilliant physicist, Sakharov abandoned science to serve the cause of human rights. 'The conscience of his country' was one of the titles given to this Nobel laureate, whose sincerity was valued by friend and foe. In 1980 he was exiled to Gorky, but his return to Moscow in 1986 was triumphant. As a member of the new congress he continued to antagonize conservatives until his death, of a heart attack, at the age of 68. Hundreds of admirers accompanied him to his last resting place.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Gérard Vandystadt
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vandystadt
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-05-1989
    • Country France
    • Place Corbeil
    • Caption A jury follows the performance of gymnast Wang Xiuyun (China) at the 15th International Gymnastics Tournament.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Simon Bruty
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Allsport
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Cambridge
    • Caption Captain Atsushi Ogagi pays the price of possession during a rugby match between the universities of Cambridge, UK, and Dashisha, Japan. At the Grange Road ground the English team beat their visitors 23-19.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Tim Clayton
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Yorkshire Post
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Caption Olympic swimmer James Parrack heads for the surface during training for the Commonwealth Games. He took the silver medal in the 100m breast-stroke.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Norbert Rosing
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Silvestris Fotoservice
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1989
    • Caption This German bird-watcher is the victim of a two-pronged attack. After his hat and coat are soiled, he finds himself confronted with a beady eye.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Jim Mone
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Caption On his way home, a week after undergoing a minor surgery to drain fluid that formed on his brain, former US President Ronald Reagan exposes a partly shaven head as he doffs his baseball cap to well-wishers. Nancy Reagan tries to cover up her husband's weak spot.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Peter Blok
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Netherlands, The
    • Place Tilburg
    • Caption For a young monk a parental visit is a cheerful occasion. At this Trappist monastery life isn't all austerity.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Emile Luider
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Rapho
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country France
    • Place Paris
    • Caption Scenes from La Défense': Images from Paris' new business district as the Grande Arche de la Défense is constructed. The same year that Eiffel Tower celebrated its centenary, Paris unveiled this new symbol of modern technology. Designed by Danish architect Otto von Spreckelsen, its completion coincided with the bicentennial of the French revolution in July.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Emile Luider
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Rapho
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country France
    • Place Paris
    • Caption A group of children watch a three-dimensional film about marine life, which is so realistic that they are trying to catch the fish. The La Villette Museum of Science and Industry, created on the site of a slaughterhouse, is now especially popular with the younger generation.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer P. Bourseiller & A. de Wildenberg
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Sygma
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country Greenland
    • Caption The loneliness of the intrepid explorer, halfway up a wall of ice. This expedition explored the Inlandsis, the ice sheet covering 80 percent of Greenland.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Raphaël Gaillarde
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country French Guiana
    • Caption A combination of a hot air dirigible and an inflatable raft enables scientists to study various life forms in the roof of the rain forest at close range. After the raft is lowered into position over the Amazon, researchers follow. Several international teams took part in the research, which encompassed insects, birds, tree frogs and vegetation.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Patrick Sutherland
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Caption Aerial crop spraying. The influence of modern farming methods on the environment prompted this reportage, shot in Yorkshire and Norfolk.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Frans Lanting
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1989
    • Place South Georgia, Antartica
    • Caption An elephant seal appears to cry out in agony as he drowns in mud.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Eric Mencher
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Philadelphia Inquirer
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country USA
    • Place Alaska
    • Caption Crude insult to nature. The gloved hand of a rescue worker cradles an oil-soaked victim of the supertanker Eon Valdez, which struck a reef and burst open on March 24 pouring eleven million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Frans Lanting
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Place South Georgia, Antartica
    • Caption A colony of king penguins is gathered on a glacier against a majestic polar backdrop.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Frans Lanting
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Place South Georgia, Antartica
    • Caption Grey-headed albatross perform their courtship ritual.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Olivier Föllmi
    • Nationality France
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Place Kashmir
    • Caption For eight months of the year the village of Zanskar, in the heart of the Himalayas, is cut off from the outside world. Only when temperatures drop to 30 degrees below Celsius is a path created: a frozen river at the bottom of a canyon, which if all goes well, enables the villagers to reach Ladakh, the nearest town, in about 12 days. This expedition was mounted by some adults and two children enrolled in school at Ladakh.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Ron Sanford
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country USA
    • Place Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska
    • Caption A brown bears teaches his cubs how to fish for salmon.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Igor Kostin
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication RIA Novosti
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Place Narodichi, Ukraine
    • Caption Face masks are widely used in the Narodichi district, 80km from Chernobyl. It wasn't until 40 months after the nuclear disaster that the Soviet government decided to partly evacuate the area. In that time 190 deformed children had been born in contaminated villages.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Ivan Kurtov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication ITAR-TASS
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Place Leningrad
    • Caption On V-Day Anatoly Golimbievsky, a heavily decorated veteran who lost both legs in the Second World War, acknowledges the salute of four young sailors.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer James Kamp
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for Life
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Country USA
    • Place Miami, Florida
    • Caption Jennifer Royal (5) gives evidence in court. In a drugs-related shooting in Liberty City, she had been a witness to the murder of her best friend, Peaches.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Gerd Ludwig
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Fortune
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1989
    • Caption Teenage fathers attend a parenting workshop.
    • Year 1989
    • Photographer Karim Daher
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1989
    • Country Lebanon
    • Place Beirut
    • Caption While smoke blows from the burning Dora oil refinery in the background, an engineer checks a telephone connection.
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