mc5 - King AVMA the III

[SM] Not medical.

Is it a photograph?

[RtG] applause!! It is a photograph!

Is it the photograph of the Tiananmen Square protestor and tanks?

Hail Radox! I note that the aforementioned Wikipedia has a "List of photographs considered the most important", though I'd think we're a few weeks away from recourse to that.

Raak

[T] Not Tiananmen.
[all] Not on Wikipedia's "List of photographs considered the most important".

Superman

Does the Mineral part of the AOTC refer to the photograph itself, or is there something mineral in the photograph we should identify?

Raak

[S] The MINERAL refers to the photograph itself, although there are things in it that are also mineral.

Projoy

Has it featured in memes?

Raak

[P] Having googled this, I think it’s fair to say that it has featured in memes.

Raak

I am sure it will be instantly recognisable to everyone here.

Superman

What springs to mind is either the photo of the Montparnasse train crash, although it doesn't have anybody on it, and the Conan Doyle 'fairies at the bottom of the garden' photo, but that has a whole person, not part of one, so I'm going to ask if the photo was taken before 1930?