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Discussion: Photographs That Changed The World
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Photographs That Changed The World
Well, many things have happened on the last decades historically, is all this no more than an overview of the past, or the evolution so far?
The idea is justly take this images to the maximum of people as possible to expand and incentive more interest for this past events which some others are quite inappropriate that show some horribleness, and others that shocked the world, or even marked the history worldwide.
Attention, some pictures can be very shocking.
Che Guevara. He is viewed by some as the quintessential revolutionary. Fought and won the Cuban revolution with Fidel Castro. After winning the revolution however, Fidel Castro transformed into his new role as political leader, but Che was unsuited and uninterested in politics and wanted to remain a revolutionary forever. He was moreover an Argentine and therefore an outsider to Cuban affairs. Thus with a token force given by Castro, Che went to Bolivia to fight a new revolution. there, he pictured himself the leader come to save the revolution instead of an emissary from Cuba. The local guerrillas moreover expected material support and not a foreigner to direct them. He was captured by bolivian military and executed.
Women sailing the body of her dead son in the attack on the Beslan school that killed over 330 people made the cover of Image See and shocked the country and the world.
The U.S. air strike on the small village of Trang Bang, with napalm bombs, brought the photo that became the symbol of the dirty war in Vietnam, since it revealed naked children and the massacre of innocent civilians.
Also known as the Unknown Rebel, this was the nickname that was attributed to an anonymous young man who became internationally famous when has been recorded and photographed standing in front of a line of several tanks during the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989 in the Republic Chinese. The photo was taken by Jeff Widener, and that night was the cover of hundreds of newspapers, magazines and news from around the world. The young student (certainly dead hours later) brought to two lines of tanks trying to advance. In the west of the rebel images were displayed picture as a symbol of the Chinese democracy movement: a young man risking his life to oppose a military squad. In China, the image was used by the government as the symbol of care for soldiers of Peoples Liberation Army to protect the Chinese people: despite orders to move, the tank driver refused to do so if it involved some damage to a citizen...
Exact moment of when the 2nd World War ended in Europe. Russians planting the flag on the Reichstag.
Feel free to post more. I'll be posting more daily..
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"The Falling Man" - 9/11/2001
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Originally posted by Wikipedia
The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:41:15 a.m. during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The subject of the image — whose identity remains uncertain in spite of attempts to identify him — was one of the people trapped on the upper floors of the skyscraper who apparently chose to jump rather than die from the fire and smoke. As many as 200 people jumped to their deaths that day;[1] there was no time to recover or identify those who were forced to jump prior to the collapse of the towers. Officially, all deaths in the attacks except those of the hijackers were ruled to be homicides (as opposed to suicides), and the New York City medical examiner's office stated that it does not classify the people who fell to their deaths on September 11 as "jumpers": "A 'jumper' is somebody who goes to the office in the morning knowing that they will commit suicide... These people were forced out by the smoke and flames or blown out."
This photograph is somewhat deceptive, as it gives the impression that the man is falling straight down. However, this is just one of a dozen photographs of his fall, and in other photographs it is evident that he is tumbling through the air.
The photographer has noted that, in at least two cases, newspaper stories commenting on the image have attracted a barrage of criticism from readers who found the image "disturbing." Regarding the social and cultural significance of 'The Falling Man', theologian Mark D. Thompson of Moore Theological College says that "perhaps the most powerful image of despair at the beginning of the twenty-first century is not found in art, or literature, or even popular music. It is found in a single photograph."
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This picture displays the horrors that were so cleverly hidden during the Holocaust era. Elie Wiesel has identified himself as the prisoner at the end of the second tier of bunks from the bottom. He is the one that is below the guy whose head is the highest. He is circled in red. He is widely considered one of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust, with his novel "Night", which described the horrors of the conditions in concentration camps, becoming Oprah's book of the month selection.
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I should report this mess but it did have a impact in pop culture so I will let it pass.
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Thread derailed at post 4. Congrats 
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It really did have a big impact on pop culture, but you're assumably going to get reported on it 
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Originally posted by Brit94
I should report this mess but it did have a impact in pop culture.
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It changed pop culture forever 
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The Freedom Riders
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Freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia (of 1960). The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.
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Alexander Hay Ritchie print of Francis Bicknell Carpenter's heroic painting of First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
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Thread derailed at post 4. Congrats |
I was being very serious. 
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That rebel pic is always the first one I use when this type of conversation pops up.
I have just one at the moment, but I feel it's worthy of being posted.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the hands of a racist escaped convict. The assassination sparked riots throughout the United States and the hurt that this assassination caused throughout the country still lingers today.
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There was a thread similar to this a little while back.
I don't wish to post it, but I think everyone should look but the pictures of Emmett Till.
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Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois visiting his relatives in the Mississippi Delta region when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store. Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, arrived at Till's great-uncle's house where they took Till, transported him to a barn, beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. His body was discovered and retrieved from the river three days later.
Till was returned to Chicago and his mother, who had raised him mostly by herself, insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing. Tens of thousands attended his funeral or viewed his casket and images of his mutilated body were published in black magazines and newspapers, rallying popular black support and white sympathy across the U.S. Intense scrutiny was brought to bear on the condition of black civil rights in Mississippi, with newspapers around the country critical of the state. Although initially local newspapers and law enforcement officials decried the violence against Till and called for justice, they soon began responding to national criticism by defending Mississippians, which eventually transformed into support for the killers. The trial attracted a vast amount of press attention. Bryant and Milam were acquitted of Till's kidnapping and murder, but months later, protected by double jeopardy, they admitted to killing him in a magazine interview. Till's murder is noted as one of the leading events that motivated the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
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Kent State shootings  I used to cry when I saw this picture.
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The Little Rock Nine.
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Originally posted by ExtraChapstick
"The Falling Man" - 9/11/2001 |
That one picture can bring up so much emotion...
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