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Golden Mean in Ukrainian Parliament Brawl
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The sight of grown men resorting to this sort of behaviour may be abhorrent (and somehow all the worse for their tailored attire), but the picture - an "accidental" Renassance-style composition - is going viral on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/jamesharveytm/status/496898613252227072/photo/1
The tweets on the subject range from erudite to daft (and worse), as do the comments on the related Grauniad article:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/06/accidental-renaissance-photojournalism-italian-painting-ukraine-frank-lampard
(The triad of footballers is a much nicer picture, for all that there is personal tragedy behind the emotional aspect)
I turn to PoL for a decent discussion :-)
I can't help but wonder whether there was some instinctive (or educated) urge that made the photographers take these shots - and subsequently select them for publication (maybe somebody else does the selection, I don't know).