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In reply to the discussion: Snowed on Snowden [View all]flamingdem
(39,799 posts)At first glance, it looked like Edward Snowden was wearing the same blue-gray button down dress shirt that he wore during his interview with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in that Hong Kong hotel room on June 6, which until now was essentially the only photograph we had of him. That already seems as it must even more so for him so long ago. Another continent. Another life. He had already made the decisive step to break with the NSA, but still had a passport, was still free.
Yet without anything else to go by, that image became ubiquitous around the world, reproduced thousands of times in print and online, on TV screens and LED billboard displays, turned into ironic artwork, Xeroxed for demonstrations in his support, truly gone viral. So the thirst for more images more up-to-date images has become palpable and unnerving. In a world where there are too many photographs, Snowden managed to remain publicly unseen throughout his flight to Russia and subsequent limbo at Sheremetyevo Airport. So much so that there was doubt if he was even really there.
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/07/more-photographed-more-dangerous/