Commercial depicting Tiananmen Square’s ‘Tank Man’ creates online headache for Leica in China
- 5 years ago
German camera manufacturer Leica is dealing with a Chinese social media backlash over an advertisement video depicting a man standing off against a column of tanks – recalling the iconic “Tank Man” filmed during the bloody suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The Leica ad called The Hunt portrays various dark moments conflict through the lenses of photojournalists, but its main plot follows a Western journalist inside a Beijing hotel who is confronted and…