This photo has been around the world.
US Senator Bernie Sanders, bundled up in a parka, legs and arms crossed and wearing mittens, during Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20.
On Wednesday, the former US presidential candidate announced to donate to charities the $ 1.8 million raised from sales of products stamped with the now famous photo.
Bernie Sanders official website offered merchandise for sale with the famous photo / Screenshot from Bernie Sanders official website
Immortalized by AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski, this moment has inspired thousands of humorous photomontages around the world.
Undefeated.
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- Rex ChapmanđđŒ (@RexChapman) January 21, 2021
The image strengthened the passionate, often grumpy-looking ex-progressive presidential candidate in his status as an internet star.
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- Michael Krivicka (@michaelkrivicka) January 21, 2021
The independent senator from Vermont raised $ 1.8 million "in five days for charities" in this rural northeastern US state, through sales of products showing him "with his mittens" in the day of the inauguration of the new Democratic president on January 20, a statement said.
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VIDEO. United States: the designer of Bernie Sanders' mittens is overwhelmed by demands
T-shirts, sweaters and other related products went on sale on its site on the evening of January 21 and stocks were exhausted in thirty minutes.
New products added this weekend had all been sold on Monday morning, said this press release.
Helping Vermont workers in the midst of the crisis
"Jane," his wife "and I are in awe of the creativity shown by so many people [âŠ] and we are delighted to help Vermonters in need," he wrote in a statement.
"But even this sum cannot replace congressional action and I will do what I can in Washington to make sure workers in Vermont and across the country get the support they need in the midst of the world's worst crisis." that we have been through since the Great Depression, âadded the senator, a self-proclaimed socialist.
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Getty Images, the agency that distributes AFP's photos in the United States, "will donate the proceeds" from the merchandising deal to the charity Meals on Wheels, the statement said.
Brendan Smialowski considers the evolution of this image "and all its variations" "impressive".
"Bernie" his arms crossed his hands buried in oversized mittens, was immortalized by @b_smialowski photographer of the # AFP.
On our Making-of @jenniematthew tells the little story of the photo at the origin of a global festival of memes https://t.co/k00pOU5J1X pic.twitter.com/LIrXsr3zaR
- Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) January 24, 2021
"When I took this photo, I thought it was a good time, which was worth a few shots," he told AFP on Wednesday.
"Although I never expect, and never seek, that my work will go viral or convert into memes," these humorous montages, "it doesn't surprise me in the sense that the internet, and social media, are unpredictable, âhe added.
âThe Internet looks like a wild animal, hard to anticipate and hard to tame.
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