Powerful Images

[Sunil]

I wanted to make a thread different to the normal with a better input from me so here it is……..

Images That Changed The World ?


Some people might be offended or upset by these images but this isn't my intentions I just want it to be thought provoking and enlightening, and for people to talk about the past and to never forget, because we need to learn from past events other wise we will keep repeating history.
I’ve given the event and date it occurred and I’ve linked to a source of info behind the video e.g. a Wiki page.
If I get more time at a later time I’ll include a video (google video or youtube with a bit about it)


Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [1968] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Loan)

This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer price with it.
The picture shows Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam's national police chief executing a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain.
Once again the public opinion was turned against the war.

http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/ga/aa/j.jpg


The lynching of young blacks in the U.S.A [1930] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%2C_Indiana#1930_Lynching)

This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing the young black men accused of murder, hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men.
The mob took them by force from the county jailhouse. Another black man was left behind and ended up being saved from lynching.
Even if lynching photos were designed to boost white supremacy, the tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting many.

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/aa/aa/j.jpg


Hazel Bryant [1970] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eckford)

It was the fourth school year since segregation had been outlawed by the Supreme Court in the U.S.A.
Things were not going well, and some southerners accused the national press of distorting matters.
This picture, however, gave irrefutable testimony, as Elizabeth Eckford strides through a gantlet of white students,
including Hazel Bryant (mouth open the widest), on her way to Little Rock's Central High.

http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/na/aa/j.jpg (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7426372353149176912&q)


Tiananmen Square [1989]

This is a famous picture you know.
This is the picture of a student/man going to work who has just had enough of what he has saw the days before of killing of protesters done by their own government.
He tries to stop the tanks in Tiananmen Square by standing in front of them and climbed on top of the tank and began hitting the hatch and yelling
(presumably for the drivers to come out), the tank driver didn't crush the man with the bags as a group of people came and dragged him away,
we still don't know if the man is alive of dead as the Chinese government executed many of the protesters involved.
China is still controlled by a communist regime, but while there are strong willed men like this the country still has hope.

http://image.bayimg.com/la/po/ga/aa/j.jpg


Phan Th?

Again you know this picture.
Kim Phúc known as Kim Phuc (born 1963) was the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam war.
The picture shows her at about age nine running naked after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack.

http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/ma/aa/j.jpg (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7110703835241279117&q=Kim+Phuc)


Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill)

This photograph was taken by Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer,
when Winston Churchill came to Ottawa.
The portrait of Churchill brought Karsh international fame.
It is claimed to be the most reproduced photographic portrait in history.
It also appeared on the cover of Life magazine.

http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/ca/aa/j.jpg



Albert Einstein [1951] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein)

Albert Einstein is probably one of the most popular figures of all times.
He is considered a genius because he created the Theory of Relativity,
and so, challenged Newton's laws,
that were the basis of everything known in physics until the beginning of the 20th century.
But, as a person, he was considered a beatnik, and this picture,
taken on March 14, 1951 proves that.


http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/ha/aa/j.jpg


Hiroshima [1945] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasak i)

A first for the general public, the picture of the "mushroom cloud" is a very accurate approximation of the enormous quantity of energy spread below.
The first atomic bomb, released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan)
killed about 80,000 people, but it didn't seem enough because the Japanese
didn't surrender right away. Therefore, on August 9 another bomb was
released above Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were even more
devastating - 150,000 people were killed or injured. But the powerful wind,
the extremely high temperature and radiation caused enormous long term damage.



http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/pa/aa/j.jpg


Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb [1945] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasak i)

Everyone had heard of the bomb that "leveled" Hiroshima,
but what did that mean? When the aerial photography was published,
that question was answered.

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/pa/aa/j.jpg

[Sunil]

Anne Frank [1941] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank)

Six million Jews died in the Holocaust.
For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face.
She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained
her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic.
In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks;
Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the camp was liberated.
The world came to know her through her words and through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14.
She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come.

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/ja/aa/j.jpg

Casualties of war [1991] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Gulf_War)

Image of a young US sergeant at the moment he learns that the body bag
next to him contains the body of his friend, killed by "friendly fire".

The widely published photo became an iconic image of the 1991 Gulf war -
a war in which media access was limited by Pentagon restrictions.

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/da/aa/j.jpg


The Falling Man [2001] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man)

The powerful and controversial photograph provoked feelings of anger,
particularly in the United States, in the immediate aftermath of the
September 11 attacks. The photo ran only once in many American
newspapers because they received critical and angry letters from readers
who felt the photo was exploitative, voyeuristic, and disrespectful of the
dead. This led to the media's self-censorship of the photograph, preferring
instead to print photos of acts of heroism and sacrifice.

Drew commented about the varying reactions, saying, "This is how it
affected people's lives at that time, and I think that is why it's an important
picture. I didn't capture this person's death. I captured part of his life. This
is what he decided to do, and I think I preserved that."9/11: The Falling
Man ends suggesting that this picture was not a matter of the identity
behind the man, but how he symbolized the events of 9/11.

http://image.bayimg.com/la/po/da/aa/j.jpg

Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Building)

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a
Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during
construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their
feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets
took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York
Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the
69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction,
the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the
beam. This picture can be seen everywhere and anywhere. There have
been many 'copies'. My local Hair Cut place has one up.

http://image.bayimg.com/ia/po/oa/aa/j.jpg

A vulture watches a starving child [1993] (http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm)

The prize-winning image: A vulture watches a starving child in southern Sudan, March 1, 1993.

Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child
collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine
in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated
child.

Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the
"Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the
atrocities committed during apartheid.

Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in
1994 soon after receiving the award.

Pick the child up???? !!!!!

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/na/aa/j.jpg


Biafra [1969] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra)

When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in
1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war,
more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who
lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which causes their muscles
to waste away and their bellies to protrude. War photographer Don McCullin
drew attention to the tragedy. "I was devastated by the sight of 900
children living in one camp in utter squalor at the point of death," he said. "I
lost all interest in photographing soldiers in action." The world community
intervened to help Biafra, and learned key lessons about dealing with
massive hunger exacerbated by war-a problem that still defies simple
solutions.

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/ma/aa/j.jpg

Tragedy in Oklahoma [1995] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing)

The fireman has taken the time to remove his gloves before receiving this
infant from the policeman.

Anyone who knows anything about firefighters know that their gloves are
very rough and abrasive and to remove these is like saying I want to make
sure that I am as gentle and as compassionate as I can be with this infant
that I don't know is dead or alive.

The fireman is just cradling this infant with the utmost compassion and
caring.

He is looking down at her with this longing, almost to say with his eyes:
"It's going to be OK, if there's anything I can do I want to try to help you."

He doesn't know that she has already passed away.

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/ga/aa/j.jpg

How Life Begins [1965] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Nilsson)

In 1957 he began taking pictures with an endoscope, an instrument that
can see inside a body cavity, but when Lennart Nilsson presented the
rewards of his work to LIFE's editors several years later, they demanded
that witnesses confirm that they were seeing what they thought they were
seeing. Finally convinced, they published a cover story in 1965 that went
on for 16 pages, and it created a sensation. Then, and over the intervening
years, Nilsson's painstakingly made pictures informed how humanity feels
about . . . well, humanity. They also were appropriated for purposes that
Nilsson never intended. Nearly as soon as the 1965 portfolio appeared in
LIFE, images from it were enlarged by right-to-life activists and pasted to
placards.

http://image.bayimg.com/la/po/aa/aa/j.jpg


First Flight [1903] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Wright)

December 17, 1903 was the day humanity spread its wings and rose above
the ground - for 12 seconds at first and by the end of the day for almost a
minute - but it was a major breakthrough. Orville and Wilbur Wright, two
bicycle mechanics from Ohio, are the pioneers of aviations, and although
this first flight occurred so late in history, the ulterior development was
exponential.

http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/ja/aa/j.jpg

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The late adventure photographer Galen Rowell called it "the most influential
environmental photograph ever taken." Captured on Christmas Eve, 1968,
near the end of one of the most tumultuous years the U.S. had ever known,
the Earthrise photograph inspired contemplation of our fragile existence and
our place in the cosmos. For years, Frank Borman and Bill Anders of the
Apollo 8 mission each thought that he was the one who took the picture.
An investigation of two rolls of film seemed to prove Borman had taken an
earlier, black-and-white frame, and the iconic color photograph, which later
graced a U.S. postage stamp and several book covers, was by Anders.



http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/ea/aa/j.jpg (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6201131741308003212&q=Earthrise)

[Chelsea Blue]

They're really interesting mate, great post.

Yeah I agree with you, really powerful and really moving pictures, the Biafra one is sad.

[Chelsea Blue]

We've got Lunch Atop A Skyscraper hung up in our downstairs bathroom. Brilliant photo.

[Avfcman22]

Great thread mate, them starving kids in Africa made me think :no:

[SWFC 1988]

The WTC one is particulalry powerful, maybe cos i lived through it, it really does bring it all back, where i was and what i was doing. That one also makes me wonder what i'd have done in the same situation. Very moving stuff.

[Noel Gallagher]

The Congo 1978

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This poor white gorilla was racially discriminated against by his own group for years often referred to as only White Boy or Honkey rather than his real name of Reginald, unfortunately some 10 years later after a laison with a black female Gorilla which resulted in the first ever half cast Gorilla being born he was sentanced to a public lynching :(.

[Martinho]

Berlin, November 9th 1989.

In order to ease the complications, the politburo led by Krenz decided on November 9th, 1989 to allow refugees to exit directly through crossing points between East Germany and West Germany, including West Berlin. On the same day, the ministerial administration modified the proposal to include private travel. The new regulations were to take effect on November 10th. Günter Schabowski, the East German Minister of Propaganda, had the task of announcing this. Tens of thousands of East Berliners heard Schabowski's statement live on East German television and flooded the checkpoints in the Wall demanding entry into West Berlin. The surprised and overwhelmed border guards made many hectic telephone calls to their superiors, but it became clear that there was no one among the East German authorities who would dare to take personal responsibility for issuing orders to use lethal force, so there was no way for the vastly outnumbered soldiers to hold back the huge crowd of East German citizens. In face of the growing crowd, the guards finally yielded, opening the checkpoints and allowing people through with little or no identity checking. Ecstatic East Berliners were soon greeted by West Berliners on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. November 9th is thus considered the date the Wall fell. In the days and weeks that followed, people came to the wall with sledgehammers in order to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process. These people were nicknamed "Mauerspechte" (wall woodpeckers).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Berlin-wall-dancing.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Berlinwallfalls.jpg

[Michelle]

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/na/aa/j.jpg

This is one of the most upsetting pictures i've ever seen :(

[great white]

http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/ma/aa/j.jpg
That image has tormented me for years when it actually happened even I was not old enough to understand....quite possibly one of the most powerful and emotive captured on film images I have ever seen.....I know there are a shedload of others that merit the same respect as have been posted in this thread.....This one just has stuck in my mind........

[Michelle'sMate]

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/na/aa/j.jpg

This is one of the most upsetting pictures i've ever seen :(

DREADFUL, It get's worse when You have kids, I've never been hard but stuff like this upsets Me much more now.

[Mascherano20]

Great thread Sunill, Some very emotional and thought provoking pictures there....

The Shroud of Turin

I've always thought this image was quite thought provoking and haunting....

The Shroud of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion. It is being kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.

The shroud is the subject of intense debate among some scientists, people of faith, historians, and writers regarding where, when, and how the shroud and its images were created. Some believe it is the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb and that his image was recorded on its fibers at or near the time of his proclaimed resurrection.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/images/050127_pin_shroud.jpg

[Michelle'sMate]

http://image.bayimg.com/ka/po/ma/aa/j.jpg
That image has tormented me for years when it actually happened even I was not old enough to understand....quite possibly one of the most powerful and emotive captured on film images I have ever seen.....I know there are a shedload of others that merit the same respect as have been posted in this thread.....This one just has stuck in my mind........

That little girl has turned Her life around now though, seems very well adgusted considering.

[Michelle'sMate]

Bayley Allmon that baby in Oklahoma city, murdered by "patriots" ??????

[Mad]

Don't quote pictures.

The ones of the kid starving as the vulture looks on is particularly powerful - shakes you to your very core.

[UnitedRoad]

the vulture one and the one of starving childred are particularly sad.

Theyre all so sad though

[Somerset Glover]

its a good thread and its funny how one image can say a 1000 words.

[PhilJack]

Those are horrific images :(

If they don't make you grateful for what you have, nothing will. If anyone is ever feeling depressed, just look at those images and realise how lucky you are.

[Somerset Glover]

Those are horrific images :(

If they don't make you grateful for what you have, nothing will. If anyone is ever feeling depressed, just look at those images and realise how lucky you are.

spot on :thumb i was thinking along the same lines

[finchel]

oh christ, i can't look at them

[Trick]

http://image.bayimg.com/ja/po/na/aa/j.jpg

Very powerful picture this. I was looking at it for ages just thinking about what I'm actually looking at...

http://image.bayimg.com/ia/po/oa/aa/j.jpg

Can never get my head around this. There's a sort of humour in it, yet it's terrifying at the same time.

[TractorBoy]

The Battle of Britain 1940





http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7607/pictures/Image7.gif

[SWFC 1988]

The Battle of Britain 1940





http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7607/pictures/Image7.gif

Did Me GCSE project on that, i think i might have used that very picture as well.

[Andy]

Were you there TB ?

[Chelsea Blue]

http://image.bayimg.com/ia/po/oa/aa/j.jpg



Gutted to be the bloke on the far end :p

[bcfc4life]

id be shitting myself if i had to eat lunch there!!