13 photographs that changed the world
 

Whatever, there ain't no fuckin ******* on there so that shit is bullshit.

great thread

Caught under heavy fire, Capa dove for what little cover he could find, then shot all the film in his camera, and got out - just barely. He escaped with his life, but not much else. Of the four rolls of film Capa took of the horrific D-Day battle, all but 11 exposures were ruined by an overeager lab assistant, who melted the film in his rush to develop it. (He was trying to meet the deadline for the next issue of Life magazine.)

wow

thanks I was looking for that migrant worker photo for a mainstream project :)

they're missing quite a few actually.

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006...ant-mother.jpg
Unbelievably, Thompson?s story is as compelling as her portrait. Just 32 years old when Lange approached her ("as if drawn by a magnet," Lange said). Thompson was a mother of seven who?d lost her husband to tuberculosis. Stranded at a migratory labor farm in Nipomo, Calif. her family sustained themselves on birds killed by her kids and vegetables taken from a nearby field - as meager a living as any earned by the other 2,500 workers there. The photo?s impact was staggering. Reproduced in newspapers everywhere, Thompson?s haunted face triggered an immediate public outcry, quickly prompting politicos from the federal Resettlement Administration to send food and supplies. Sadly, however, Thompson and her family had already moved on, receiving nary a wedge of government cheese for their high-profile misery. In fact, no one knew the identity of the photographed woman until Thompson revealed herself years later in a 1976 newspaper article.


anybody here read the grapes of wrath?

No monk on fire. Nuff said. Site is bullshit.

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2...tonfirels7.jpg

Classic shots. Being a professional photographer has been my dream eversince I was a kid.

Some nice choices. I would add Afghan Girl to that list though.

http://fatimaabdul0.tripod.com/Afgha...istan,1985.jpg

that guys should have his ass kicked ...:Oh crap I can only imagine what the lost photos were ..

Yes but that Einstein pic is so human ;)

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006...ray-becker.jpg

thanks for reminding me, that was when my dirigible stock tanked

there was also a great photograph of oiled birds during gulf war, but i didnt manage to find.

thanks for the link... some great reading there...

some neat stuff here - thanks

whats so special about this?
http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006...obert-capa.jpg
WW2 was on since 1939.. Normandy happened way too late :disgust
by than millions were dead..

How funny.. top 5 pictures are centered around the US history...
changed the world??? what ever...

Where are the Marilyn Monroe poses that launched Playboy...

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thats a great article
i like this
"Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief"
...commy bastard got what he deserved
BANG BANG

Amazing journey on that page ... this one stuck with me ... shows the power of a single photo & how it can make or break someone's life by how we perceive the subject.

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006...ddie-adams.jpg

"Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world," AP photojournalist Eddie Adams once wrote. A fitting quote for Adams, because his 1968 photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head at point-blank range not only earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also went a long way toward souring Americans? attitudes about the Vietnam War.

For all the image?s political impact, though, the situation wasn?t as black-and-white as it?s rendered. What Adams? photograph doesn?t reveal is that the man being shot was the captain of a Vietcong "revenge squad" that had executed dozens of unarmed civilians earlier the same day. Regardless, it instantly became an icon of the war?s savagery and made the official pulling the trigger - General Nguyen Ngoc Loan - its iconic villain.

Sadly, the photograph?s legacy would haunt Loan for the rest of his life. Following the war, he was reviled where ever he went. After an Australian VA hospital refused to treat him, he was transferred to the United States, where he was met with a massive (though unsuccessful) campaign to deport him. He eventually settled in Virginia and opened a restaurant but was forced to close it down as soon as his past caught up with him. Vandals scrawled "we know who you are" on his walls, and business dried up.

Adams felt so bad for Loan that he apologized for having taken the photo at all, admitting, "The general killed the Vietcong; I killed the general with my camera."

From http://www.talkbubbles.com A joke site from ages ago.
http://www.talkbubbles.com/media/his...kbubbles09.jpg

SHould be renamed "13 black and white pictures I like". There are many more images that changed the world.

I thought it was great.Thanks for sharing.:0

thats one fucked up pic :Oh crap

"Well, I read it on someone's blog so it much be true".

Whatever. Seems some pretty hefty pictures are missing.

Those pics could really tell a thousand stories. :)

Missing Goatse.....

that's an amazing picture, that image is burned into the mind of anyone who ever saw it...

as for *******, and goatse, sadly enough those actually were some REALLY world changing photos. lol. the were responsible for desensitzing the minds of a large population wit their mass spread of raunch!

perhaps one day goatse will find his place in this list? no???

cant forget a little pic taken at Tiananmen Square either

No shit . . they talked about one

http://www.transom.org/talk/photos/2...s.vietcong.jpg

and seemed to miss the other

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...y/vietnamg.jpg


and what about

http://www.primititootaa.com/Images/Hindenburg.jpg

or

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...agasaki238.jpg

or

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/72-3220.jpg

Where the fuck is Goatse?

missed this one
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/iss...ages/Filo1.jpg

haha, or goatse!!...

where's iwo jima?

it doesn't say 'the top 13 photos that changed the world' its just 13 examples of amazing photos that changed the world!! there's no way you could summarize history with 13 photos.

24.754°N, 141.290°E, 522 miles south of tokyo :winkwink:

interesting...

They change it alredy!!!

of course, too hard to grasp concept here ;-)

wow...this thread is very shocking. Very good pictures!

ummm....I think they left out the number 1 pic of all time

http://www.archives.gov/publications...s/iwo-jima.jpg

Some amazing pictures there.. But like any list of its kind someone will always come up with 20 others that should be on it. Its all subjective.

maybe because it was directed like a hollywood production ;-)

The list isn't the 13 most important photographs that changed the world. Simply thirteen that did. You people will bitch and moan about anything.

Also, there seems to be a misunderstanding about what it means when someone talks about a photo changing the world. Take the Nagasaki picture for example. The dropping of the bomb changed the world. The photo would have wowed people. But it was the dropping of the bomb that clearly made the impact. To me, a photo that changes the world is when something seemingly insignificant is captured and provokes such a response in the viewer that change comes about from that photo.

Look at the photo of the Viet Cong guy being shot in the head. If that photo had never been taken, would anybody have cared? Would that guys death have even been recorded? It certainly wouldn't have soured Americans' attitudes towards the war in Vietnam had that photo not been taken. Photographed or not, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed.

I guess it depends on what the guy writing the blog defines as changing the world...this photo is considered ONE OF if not THE most recognizable photos in history. Regardless of its origin, it clearly demonstrates the power that war photography can possess (even if it was directed) and has spawned a whole new era of war photography.

http://www.archives.gov/education/le...-jima-flag.gif


great thread, we need more threads like this, these sort of threads have a lot of value

This didn't make it??

http://www.joemaria.com/gfyloot.jpg

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