13 Photographs that changed the world.

[Gnomie]

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/02/13-photographs-that-changed-the-world/






have a look.:PDT_Piratz_26:

[Gerard]

And this is Rarrrrrr up there as well matey.


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/grumpy_nappy.jpg

[scouserdave]

Thanks for the link:PDT_Piratz_26:

Gerard mate, the bizzies want a word with you!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/4153528.stm

[Ged]

Great find that Tony. I thought man on t'moon might've been there though, oh and Gerard's one.

[Gerard]

That's a disgusting photo I know..Sorry,just my sense of humor.

[Gerard]

Thanks for the link:PDT_Piratz_26:

Gerard mate, the bizzies want a word with you!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/4153528.stm

Captured !!!..Nice one Dave.

[Gnomie]

Thanks for the link:PDT_Piratz_26:

Gerard mate, the bizzies want a word with you!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/4153528.stm

Lol , your times up Gerard

[snappel]

Truly stunning photos. I think I could probably add 100 more that I've seen here and there. I'm surprised Tiananmen Square wasn't on there...

http://www.historie-nu.dk/Tiananmen.jpg

And the raising of the flag on Jima...

http://www.talkingproud.us/ImagesHistory/IwoJimaWhy/IwoJimaPhoto.jpg

[AntiPathos]

Truly stunning photos. I think I could probably add 100 more that I've seen here and there. I'm surprised Tiananmen Square wasn't on there...

http://www.historie-nu.dk/Tiananmen.jpg

And the raising of the flag on Jima...

http://www.talkingproud.us/ImagesHistory/IwoJimaWhy/IwoJimaPhoto.jpg

The first of those, as awesomely powerful as it is, didn't really change the world, AFAIAC. And wasn't the second faked/staged ?

[john]

I'm surprised the photo of the young girl in Vietnam, running down the road with her skin burnt and peeling off after an attack by American airforce was not there, it was credited with the changing of the American publics view of the war in Vietnam

[Sloyne]

I'm surprised the photo of the young girl in Vietnam, running down the road with her skin burnt and peeling off after an attack by American airforce was not there, it was credited with the changing of the American publics view of the war in Vietnam Do you mean this picture? Also, the second picture helped to stop the US aggression against Vietnam. By-the-way, the child, now a woman, pictured, lived very close to me in Canada. Our paths would cross quite often.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/8329/viet1nr8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/3593/firemonkdz0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[ChrisGeorge]

The first of those, as awesomely powerful as it is, didn't really change the world, AFAIAC. And wasn't the second faked/staged ?

Hi AP

The flag raising at Iwo Jima was restaged by the photographer. Thus, perhaps, not exactly faking it, because it was just after the original flag raising. The moment captured by the photographer was just not as spontaneous as the photograph might lead us to believe. When I gave a talk in Burlington, New Jersey at the historical museum to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Captain James Lawrence of "Don't Give Up the Ship Fame" a fellow speaker, Admiral Tobin from the Naval Historical Center brought along to show the audience one of the flags that had been raised at Iwo Jima and it was a kick to see the actual thing.

Chris

http://www.talkingproud.us/ImagesHistory/IwoJimaWhy/IwoJimaPhoto.jpg

[Sloyne]

The flag raising at Iwo Jima was restaged by the photographer. Thus, perhaps, not exactly faking it, because it was just after the original flag raising. I think, IMHO, that is exactly what it was, a fake. :) Also, out of the thirteen pictures, only three are not American or American related. How about the picture of the release of Nelson Mandela, the lynching, by Italian Partisans of Musollini, The picture of the Cuban defenders after their victory at Player Giron (the Bay of Pigs), the first Latin Americans to defy and defeat the might of the United States military, or Kwame Nkrumah accepting the documents of independence from the Duchess of Kent in 1957? Nkrumah was the first African leader to accept the documents of independance from the British? Or Sri Lankan Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the worlds first woman prime minister, Yuri Gagarin the first human in space, in his space helmet circling the earth in orbit or Valentina Tereskova the first female in space or for that matter, the first picture of Sputnik, the first man-made object to break free of earths gravity?

PS: I would have chosen the picture of the bodies of students laying on the grounds of Kent State University, Ohio in the 60's but, obviously, their murders, by Ohio State National Guardsmen, changed nothing in the thinking of the agressive, militaristic leaders in the United States.

[Sloyne]

Talking about images, there is presently a news item on CNN were a little six year old boy is surprised in his classroom by his sailor father who has been serving in Iraq for the past seven months. Seven months is forever for a six year old child and the look on the childs face when he sees his dad is priceless. The reunion would bring tears to a glass eye. It is worth watching.:tear:

[john]

I think, IMHO, that is exactly what it was, a fake. :) Also, out of the thirteen pictures, only three are not American or American related. How about the release of Nelson Mandela, the lynching, by Italian Partisans of Musollini, The picture of the Cuban defenders after the victory at the Bay of Pigs, the first Latin Americans to defy and defeat the might of the United States military, or Kwame Nkrumah accepting the documents of independence from the Duchess of Kent? Nkrumah was the first African leader to accept the documents of independance from the British? Or Sri Lankan Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the worlds first woman prime minister, Yuri Gagarin the first human in space, in his space helmet circling the earth in orbit or Valentina Tereskova the first female in space or for that matter, the first picture of Sputnik, the first man-made object to break free of earths gravity?

PS: I would have chosen the picture of the bodies of students laying of the grounds of Kent State University, Ohio in the 60's but, obviously, their murders, by Ohio State National Guardsmen, changed nothing in the thinking of the aggresive, militaristic leaders in the United States.

Great list and thanks for the other two pictures, I had forgotten the photo of the Buddhist monk setting fire to himself.

[iain]

Talking about images, there is presently a news item on CNN were a little six year old boy is surprised in his classroom by his sailor father who has been serving in Iraq for the past seven months. Seven months is forever for a six year old child and the look on the childs face when he sees his dad is priceless. The reunion would bring tears to a glass eye. It is worth watching.:tear:

That's wonderful... have you got a link to the item?

I was thinking recently about how time lasts forever as a child... the Easter hols are here and yet Christmas only seems like 5 minutes ago. When I was at school it felt like years... and the six week summer holiday... it lasted forever!

[Sloyne]

That's wonderful... have you got a link to the item? Try the following. Click on the link then click on US on the right menu bar, then click on "more video" in the "More News" column then click on "Tears of joy" then enjoy. :)

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?section=us

[AntiPathos]

Try the following. Click on the link then click on US on the right menu bar, then click on "more video" in the "More News" column then click on "Tears of joy" then enjoy. :)

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?section=us

I watched it too. Couldn't stop myself wondering how many six-year olds that returning soldier had prevented from ever seeing their dads again just because America needed cheap oil to maintain it's economic stability.

[Sloyne]

I watched it too. Couldn't stop myself wondering how many six-year olds that returning soldier had prevented from ever seeing their dads again just because America needed cheap oil to maintain it's economic stability. And they never seem to learn. They have only won one war since 1946 and that was against the lightly armed Cuban construction workers, mostly retirees, working on Salines airport in Grenada, WI., and it took more than a week for the worlds most powerful military to defeat those construction workers. But, and getting back to the "13 Photographs that changed the world". How many of those pictures would you put into that category?

[Sloyne]

The Viceroy, his lady and the "Half naked fakir" (WSC) who defeated the greatest empire the world has ever known without so much as casting a stone. IMHO, I think this is one picture that truly stunned the world and probably changed it forever. I know it has inspired millions since; The US civil rights movement, Bernadette Devlin, Vietnam peace movement, to name just a few.

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/2776/gandhimountbattenah7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[marie]

Berlin

http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Photos/Uph-1920/Members-BerlinWall.jpg

[marie]

11S

http://www.niftythings.org/usattack/wtc_smoking/h_twin_towers_02.jpg

[Sloyne]

11S

http://www.niftythings.org/usattack/wtc_smoking/h_twin_towers_02.jpg No doubt!!!!!!

[AntiPathos]

No doubt!!!!!!

That photo didn't change anything. The event did. And it was the moving footage which carried farther and with more gravity.

[steveb]

Hi
without upsetting anyone, how can a photo be world changing ?.
It may make people more aware of what is going on in the world.
Can anyone show me a photo that has actualy changed anything
in the world, that makes it a better place.

[steveb]

That photo didn't change anything. The event did. And it was the moving footage which carried farther and with more gravity.

Yes but what did it actualy change ?. It hasn't stopped aircraft flying, it
hasn't really stopped aircraft being hijacked, made kit a bit more difficult,maybe.. So to my mind nowt has really changed

[AntiPathos]

Yes but what did it actualy change ?. It hasn't stopped aircraft flying, it
hasn't really stopped aircraft being hijacked, made kit a bit more difficult,maybe.. So to my mind nowt has really changed

You're actually typing words that mean that you cannot see how the eleventh of September 2001 changed the course of World History. Correct ?

[steveb]

You're actually typing words that mean that you cannot see how the eleventh of September 2001 changed the course of World History. Correct ?

Wrong, you can say that about anythink in history, ie, WW1,WWII
the holocaust. What Iam saying is HOW has it changed world history
apart from becoming an entry in the history books.
Iam not be funny but please tell me

[AntiPathos]

...What Iam saying is HOW has it changed world history
apart from becoming an entry in the history books.
...

Becoming an entry in the history books is a rather good definition of changing World History for starters. Then why don't you take a peek at the news archives over the last few years and see what happened to Iraq. Did you learn that Saddam's gone now ? "World History" enough for you ? Or do you not readily see the connection ? And then consider American sensibilities regarding terrorism in all walks of life. Big impact. And what about their entrenched view that they must spread "freedom" and "democracy" at all costs etc. Do you think the events of 2001 had a negative or a positive impact on that way of thinking ? The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan hasn't slowed down too much either, has it ? And what if Giuliani becomes the next Big Man in Pennsylvania Avenue ? Would that be "World History" enough for you and could you see the connection there ?

Sorry if I sound overly 'sarky', don't mean to be.

[steveb]

Hi
Iam not getting into any arguments over this, but yes I do read history books
and Iam aware that Saddam has gone. :-)
I see were your coming from and will leave it at, " we beg to differ ", but the title of the thread was 13 pictures that changed the world..

[AntiPathos]

I was tired when I wrote my previous reply but I'm not going to change it and I'm not up for an argument either :)

[marie]

Photos who shock the world


http://www.foto-digital.com.mx/wp-content/imagenes/che.jpg

Artist Alberto Korda
Title Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara)
Date 1960
Technique Silver gelatin print
Size 18 x 24 cm
Description Printed circa 1990, signed verso

The famous photo of the Che Guevara - he is called formally a Heroic Guerrilla - in that his face appears with the black beret looking in the distance, it was taken by Alberto Korda on March 5, 1960 - when Guevara was 31 years old - in a burial for the persons who died in an explosion of The Coubre, but it was not published but up to seven years later. The Institute of Art of Maryland (United States) named its " the most famous photography and graphical icon of the world in the XXth century ". It is probably besides the image most reproduced in the history, appearing in cartels, vests, works of art, and a length etc.. It expresses from a universal symbol of rebelliousness - in all its interpretations - (it continues being an icon for the youth not affiliated to the political principal trends).


http://www.contactpressimages.com/25years/pop_pix/1985_1.jpg

Omayra Sanchez was a girl victim of the Covered with snow volcano of the Ruiz during the eruption that I devastate to the village of Armourer, Colombia in 1985. Omayra was 3 days caught in the mire, water and remains of her own house. She was 13 years old and during the time that was kept atorada always it was on the bodies of her family. When the rescuers her tried to help, they verified that it was impossible, since to extract it the legs needed to amputate him, nevertheless they were lacking surgery and she might die. Another option was to bring a motor-pump that will suck every time major mire in which it was immersed. The only available motor-pump was far from the site, for alone what they her could stop die. Omayra proved to be strong up to the last moment of her life, according to the rescuers and journalists who surrounded it. During three days, she was thinking of returning only to the college and in her examinations. The photographer Frank Fournier, did Omayra's photo that gave the return to the world and originated a controversy she brings over of the nonchalance of the Colombian Government with regard to the victims. The photography was published months after the girl should die. Many people come in this image of 1985 the beginning from what today we are called A Globalization, since her agony was followed directly by the television cameras and re-transmitted to the whole World.


http://numerof.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/nickut.jpg

On June 8, 1972, a North American plane the population of Trang Bang bombarded with napalm. There Kim Phuc was meeting her family. With her clothes in flames, the nine-year-old girl ran out of the population. In this moment, when her clothes already had been consumed, the photographer Nic Ut registered the famous image. Then, Nic Ut would take her to the hospital. She remained there for 14 months, and was submitted to 17 operations of leather grafts. Anyone that sees this photography can see the depth of the suffering, the hopelessness, the human pain of the war, specially for the children. Today in day Pham Thi Kim Phuc, the girl of the photography is married and with 2 children and resides in Canada. Kim Phuc presides at the ' Foundation ', dedicated when victims of the war help the children and is an ambassador for the UNESCO.


http://numerof.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/eddie_vietnam.jpg

" The colonel murdered the prisoner; I murdered the colonel with my camera". Eddie Adams, photographer of war, was the author of this one instantaneous that shows the murder, February 1, 1968, on the part of the chief of policeman of Saigon, in cold blood, of a guerrilla of the Vietcong, who had the hands tied to the back, just in the same instant in which it shoots point blank. Adams, which had been a correspondent in 13 wars, obtained for this photography a prize Pulitzer, but it affected him so much emotionally that re-turned into photographer of the yellow world.


http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/94/Sharbat_Gula.png

Sharbat Gluttony was photographed when she was 12 years old for the photographer Steve McCurry, in June, 1984. She was in the refugees' camp Nasir Bagh of Pakistan during the war against the Soviet invasion. Her photo was published in National Geographic's front page in June, 1985 and, due to her expressive face of green eyes, the front page turned into one of the most famous of the magazine. Nevertheless, in those days nobody knew the name of the girl. The same man who photographed her, Steve McCurry realized a search of the young woman who lasted 17 years. The photographer realized numerous trips to the zone until, in January, 2002, she found the girl turned into a 30-year-old woman and could know her name.
Sharbat Gluttony lives in a remote village of Afghanistan, is a traditional woman pastún, married and mother of three children. She had returned to Afghanistan in 1992. Nobody had turned it to coming out in photographs until it met again with McCurry and did not know that her face had become famous. The identity of the woman was confirmed to 99,9 % by means of a technology of facial recognition of the FBI and the comparison of the irises of both photographies.


http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/winter/images/v-j-day.jpg

Kiss of farewell to the War was taken by Victor Jorgensen in Swindle Square On August 14, 1945, in that it is possible to see a soldier of the North American sea-coast kissing passionatly a nurse. Unlike what what commonly is thought, these 2 prominent figures were not equal, but they were a few perfect strangers who had been there. The photography, the whole icon, it is considered to be an analogy of the excitation and passion that means to return to house after spending a long season out, as also the happiness experienced on having ended a war.


http://www.hongkongbrother.com/news/2004_06-07-June-July/tiananmen_tank_man.jpg

Also known as the Unknown, this Rebel it was the nickname that attributed to itself an anonymous man who became internationally famous on China having been recorded and photographed in foot opposite to a line of several tanks during the revolt of Tian'anmen's Plaza of 1989 in the Popular Republic. The photo was taken by Jeff Widener, and was transmitted on the same night being a holder in hundreds of newspapers, newscasters and magazines of the whole world. The man was kept alone and in foot while the tanks were coming closer him, supporting two similar bags(stock exchanges) one in every hand. While the tanks were diminishing the march, he was doing gestures in order that they went away.
In response, the placed tank at the top of the column tried to avoid it; but the man intervened repeatedly in his way, demonstrating an enormous tenacity and resistance. In West, the images of the rebel were presented as a symbol of the democratic Chinese movement. A young man risking the life to be opposed to a military squadron. Inside China, the image was used by the government as symbol of the care of the soldiers of the Popular Army of Liberation about protecting the Chinese people: in spite of the orders to advance, the driver of the tank rejected to do it if citizen was implying damaging it to one only.


http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c3/300px-Thich_Quang_Duc_-_Self_Immolation.jpg

Thich Quang Duc, born in 1897, was a monk Vietnamese Buddhist (also so called bonzes) that was immolated up to dying in a street very travelled of Saigon on June 11, 1963. His act of immolation, which was repeated by other monks, was most remembered, since it was testified by David Halberstam. While his body was burning, the monk was kept completely immobile. It neither shouted, even it nor did a noise. Thich Quang Duc was protesting against the way in which the administració n Buddhist was oppressing the religion in his country. After his death, his body Buddhist was cremated in conformity with the tradition.


http://blog.piotrcuch.com/images/28052004.jpg

In 1994, the brilliant photographer documentary maker sudanés Kevin Carter earned the prize Pulitzer of photojournalism with a photography taken in Ayod's region (a small village in Sudan), that crossed the entire world. In the image it can there turns the skeletal figure of a small girl, totally undernourished, having a little rest on the land exhausted by the hunger, and on the verge of dying, whereas in a background, the black expectant figure of a vulture is stalking and waiting for the precise moment of the death of the girl. Four months later, overwhelmed(weighed down) by the fault and led by a strong dependence to the drugs, Kevin Carter took the life from himself.


http://davidboyd.org/files/davidboyd-fall.jpg

The Falling Man is the title of a photography thought by Richard Drew during the attempts of September 11, 2001 on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, at 9:41:15 a.m.. In the image it is possible to see to a man fall down from one of the towers, which surely he chose to jump to the emptiness instead of dying for the heat and the smoke. The publication of the document soon after the attempts angered to certain sectors of the public North American opinion. Forthwith, the majority of the mass media were auto-censured, prefiriendo to show only photographies of acts of heroism and sacrifice. A documentary I try to verify the identity of that man.

[Steven]

Very moving pictures but I don't think I will come back to this thread again. I am very emotional.

[naked lilac]

yes, I agree with Steven.. We need happy photographs of this world of ours.. I think we all know the devastations of hunger, war, devastation in general.. We are aware of these.. Lets have some happy ones if you so please... just my thoughts...

[marie]

But u can see the posite version of somes photos!! For example the girl Kim Phuc. The photographer went with she to an hospital. Now she is happy, she is married, with 2 sons and she is take care for other persons!!
Or Omayra Sanchez, she is a good example of superation, she was only a child but she tried to survive all the time.

This photos are good for me. We only concentrate on the persons who have better things that we. We only see our neighbor who has a better car, a better house, a better work... but we never concentrate that other persons do not have anything and have to fight to obtain a chunk of bread. I think that it is good to see these photographies, for which they make us value more our belongings, and think it lucky that we are of having a house where to live and food.

It is true that is hard to see the photos, but if your you do not see the photos, these misfortunes are not going to stop happening. I try to look always for the positive side of the things, for example the Chinese nake girl, now she is married, has two children and this one fighting to help other persons. Her labor is excellent. Or for example the girl who died drowned. She was trying to survive, on the dead bodies of her family, and only he was thinking about her examinations... I have a small problem and the world falls me above. For me, her is an example of valor and overcoming. To see her photo and to read her feelings, it helps me to think in it silly that I am and to try to correct my faults. Steven, do not remain with the cruelty, look for the positive side!!

[lindylou]

My first thought was to agree with Steven that the images are too distressing - I'm an emotional person too.

However, Marie is so right in what she says. There is the courage of these people to be considered too.
Marie has made me stop and think that there is indeed a positive side to the outcome of these peoples' lives.

it is so true what Marie says how we crave material things in life and others struggle for a chunk of bread.



Such wise words Marie :handclap:

[naked lilac]

Yes, positive and negative coincide with eachother at times....Nothing good has come out of that man diving to his death in desperation of not being burned and crushed.. The baby so waiting for their turn to die..thusly, the fulture getting food in return...Survival this threat should be called.....
Well, just strikes me as this...It is Lifes Cycle...yet, devastation is NOT a positive thing. One can take away in viewing these photos.. that , YES We are blessed that we have NOT had to live this way.. But, I believe we all reflect on seeing a person less fortunate, and thinking how fortunate we are...They are great photos to say the least... but, just unhappy in my eyes...

[marie]

It is his purpose, to shake. And if a photography has made us have a feeling, well, badly, but never indifferently, it is a good photo!

This has made me remember... I saw the movie Gladiator with my friends. When the movie finished, they all said that Russell Crowe is a great actor. I said that I preferred Joaquin Phoenix. They all said that not, for that it made them feel disgust and hatred. Precisely because of it, for me he did a great paper, coz he make me a feeling. I am sorry, it could not explain with a better example, already they know for that...

[phredd]

Six years ago

Rest in peace all those that died on this day. You shall always be remembered.



http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/tropus/twintowers-1Medium.jpg

Phredd

[chippie]

I have a small piece of the Berlin wall in my effects somewhere. When I went there back in the mid 90s for some reson it was quite emotional for me and my two pals.

One wanted to see Hitler,s bunker where it was claimed he shot himself; I got my Checkpoint Charlie photo albeit it was rubbish as my mates couldn,t take photos. And another wanted to see a concentration camp. Can,t remember the name of it now offhand, but it was getting late and we got there just as it was closing and we had to make a bit of a fuss just to step in to take some photos. Ironic that we three Brits clamouring to get INTO a concentration camp in Germany.

:ninja:

[magicmickey]

"Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel":PDT_Aliboronz_11:

[Atany]

there is each years a World Press Photo Exhibition. Unfortunately, they don't go to Britain as I had seen on the tour-calendar. And unfortunately, they don't show the photos on the website. Too bad!
But it's an very interesting exhibition.


http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=983&Itemid=155&bandwidth=high

[naked lilac]

Thanks for sharing that Atany.. must be fantastic to see..

[shoney]

The first of those, as awesomely powerful as it is, didn't really change the world, AFAIAC. And wasn't the second faked/staged ?

you right , it didn't really change the world even though it was a very powerful image that put a single man against a super power, .............. mostly i find it comes up about 10-30 on a friday night in the alehouse when someone says " i feel like a tank in tieanamen squre " " i could murder a chinese "

[Atany]

Thanks for sharing that Atany.. must be fantastic to see..
well, there are a lot of very shocking pictures. Wars, hunger, death...... from the whole world. And unfortunately, not many beautiful pictures. But the press reports at most about the bad things and not so much about good things.
But there were also a few pictures of courageous people and so.

[Atany]

There are now the pictures also in the web.
Click on "Gallery of prize winning images - more"
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/