The most significant photos ever taken
 

This is a follow-up to soul_rebels thread, (13 photos that changed the world), doing a few searches for Pulitzer prize winning photographs really opened my eyes to new things, here are a few that imo had a big impact:



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Below, Stanley Foreman, a photographer with the Boston Herald was taking photographs of the scene and captured this dramatic shot of the woman and child falling. The woman, Diana Bryant, died later from her injuries but she broke the fall of her two-year-old goddaughter, Tiara Jones, who survived.

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why was paul barefoot?

Paul was barefoot to fuck with you. Paul is dead!

Maybe he was nearly out of the Beatles?...

This one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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For the motherfucking love of god....

because people are supposedly buried barefoot in Italy


Paul was obsessed with death and there was a lot of rumors that he died a lot of times lol... read:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/paulisdead.html

Yup. That's as sad as it gets.

Seriously and sadly, owned.

lol i was scrolling the pics and i thought the beatles' cover would be good addition and then i see it too !

First pic is very sad.. I just want to cry..:(

Great pics...although they're sad, sad, sad.....:(

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Dead on the Beach 1943
When LIFE ran this stark, haunting photograph of a beach in Papua New Guinea on September 20, 1943, the magazine felt compelled to ask in an adjacent full-page editorial, "Why print this picture, anyway, of three American boys dead upon an alien shore?" Among the reasons: "words are never enough . . .


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Buchenwald 1945
LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White was with Gen. George Patton's troops when they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Forty-three thousand people had been murdered there. Patton was so outraged he ordered his men to march German civilians through the camp so they could see with their own eyes what their nation had wrought.



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Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb, 1945
Americans ? and everyone ? had heard of the bomb that "leveled" Hiroshima, but what did that mean? When the aerial photography was published, that question was answered.

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Mexico City Olympics 1968
Sociologist Harry Edwards had been urging black athletes to boycott the Olympics to protest civil rights inequities in the U.S. The boycott didn't happen, but Edwards struck a chord with many, including San Jose State teammates Tommie Smith and John Carlos. As the national anthem played, they held up their gloved fists. The runners were booted from the Games, but their gesture resonated.

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South of the DMZ 1966
"The color photographs of tormented Vietnamese villagers and wounded American conscripts that Larry Burrows took and LIFE published, starting in 1962, certainly fortified the outcry against the American presence in Vietnam," Susan Sontag wrote in her essay "Looking at War," in the December 9, 2002, New Yorker. "Burrows was the first important photographer to do a whole war in color ? another gain in verisimilitude and shock."

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One Week's Dead May 28 ha June 3, 1969
By 1969, Americans were dying in Vietnam each week by the hundreds. Total losses had reached a staggering 36,000. To personalize the figures, LIFE ran the name, hometown and picture of each serviceman whom the Pentagon said was killed during the Memorial Day week.


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Biafra 1969

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.




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Birmingham 1963

For years, Birmingham, Ala., was considered ?the South?s toughest city,? home to a large black population and a dominant class of whites that met in frequent, open hostility. Birmingham in 1963 had become the cause célèbre of the black civil rights movement as nonviolent demonstrators led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. repeatedly faced jail, dogs and high-velocity hoses in their tireless quest to topple segregation. This picture of people being pummeled by a liquid battering ram rallied support for the plight of the blacks.


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What Charles Dickens did with words for the underage toilers of London, Lewis Hine did with photographs for the youthful laborers in the United States. In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee was already campaigning to put the nation?s two million young workers back in school when the group hired Hine. The Wisconsin native traveled to half the states, capturing images of children working in mines, mills and on the streets. Here he has photographed ?breaker boys,? whose job was to separate coal from slate, in South Pittston, Pa. Once again, pictures swayed the public in a way cold statistics had not, and the country enacted laws banning child labor.

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On October 22, 1962, after accusing the U.S.S.R. of installing nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ordered a blockade of the island. When the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. refused to deny the charge, U.S. ambassador Adlai Stevenson confronted him with these photos of missile sites taken by the high-flying spy plane, the U-2, and the Soviets were compelled to back down. The presentation of seemingly incontrovertible evidence would become known as an ?Adlai Stevenson moment.? Robert F. Kennedy later admitted that he and his brother found the grainy images quite baffling, and banked on the interpretation proffered by the CIA: ?I, for one, had to take their word for it.?

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Michael Dukakis, 1988 - Another Landmark Image

After Gary Hart was photographed with a model (no, not his wife) in 1988 on a boat dubbed Monkey Business, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis became the Democrat's choice to run for President against George Bush. At a General Dynamics plant in Michigan, the Duke wanted to show he was no softie on defense, so took a spin in a tank. Compared with the dashing WWII pilot Bush, the little Dukakis came off a clown, and the photo op blew up in his face.


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Earthrise 1968

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.


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Betty Grable 1942

World War II took American boys to far-flung places and some rough duty. For many, mail came infrequently at best, and at times it held only a Dear John letter. The troops were desperate for some link to home, some reminder of what they were fighting for. Betty Grable and her million-dollar legs were the perfect balm for what ailed ?em, and this 1942 pinup of the easygoing girl with oodles of back-home charm, and other assets, made the war seem a little more bearable. Sexy pinups later grew to poster size, perhaps most memorably in the endlessly reproduced portrait of Farrah Fawcett.


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Johnson Is Sworn In 1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the presidential oath of office on November 22 as Air Force One carries his wife, Lady Bird, Jacqueline Kennedy and several White House aides back to Washington from Dallas. Earlier, President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, and the speed with which this ceremony was arranged?and the photo released?was purposeful. Johnson and his advisers wanted to assure a shocked nation that the government was stable, the situation under control. Images from the Zapruder film of the shooting, which would raise so many questions, would not be made public for days.

grrrrrrrr

Pulitzer quality shots :thumbsup

that one of the baby breaks my heart
the worst thing about it, is that it is still happening.

shame those other pics are redexed out

Pretty cool photos!

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'

that one was for you, so is this one

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Very moving pics of history

I was just in another forum and someone post the same title 13 pix that changed the world .. and they were all different .. but easily as compelling

Thanks ;) I've read about it many times.

4 dead in Ohio. Great song!

The Aussie guy on the 3rd place podium above died recently and both the Americans came to Australia for his funeral.

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man, its just not my day with pics

I was thinking about the same

Without a monk on fire this thread, much like Christian morality, fails to deliver.

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bump.....

That has got to be one of the most heart breaking pictures ever taken.

Who can forget this one either..

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On a lighter note...

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Amazing pics
WOW

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Seriously, this is one of the most famous...

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Do you recognize this one...

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The most reproduced photograph in the history of photography.

A cultural icon who is a little closer to home for us..

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amazing what a picture can do/change