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Discussion: Photographs That Changed The World
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That is horrible. Can you see the baby? Jesus.
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I'm glad someone else smells the true tea
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Does NAWT compare to "My Queen, My Goddess."
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Why does some people always have to ruin a thread like this by posting a pic of their fave ?
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Airship Hindenburg exploded and crashed spectacularly while docking at
Lakehurst on May 6, 1937 and 35 people died
The date on which the Wall fell is considered to have been 9 November 1989 but the Wall in its entirety was not torn down immediately. Starting that evening and in the days and weeks that followed, people came to the wall with sledgehammers or otherwise hammers and chisels to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process and creating several unofficial border crossings. These people were nicknamed "Mauerspechte" (wall woodpeckers).
Lady Gaga's iconic meat dress worn at the 2010 VMA's.
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omg Princess diana thats princess Diana's car right?
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omg Princess diana thats princess Diana's car right?
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Yes...
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Gay Execution in Iran.
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Creepy ass picture of Anders Breivik, the guy who murdered all those people in Norway
Just look @ him enjoying it...
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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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Originally posted by SevenFootSounds
Creepy ass picture of Anders Breivik, the guy who murdered all those people in Norway
Just look @ him enjoying it...
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The Great Depression as depicted by Dorothea Lange's famous photograph.
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Woah, what the ****? That looks scary as hell.
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a 12-year-old Palestinian boy clutching his father, terrified by the Israeli gunfire showering them from all directions. The boy, Mohamed Al-Dorra, was killed and the entire world witnessed his death thanks to a Palestinian cameraman who just happened to be filming at the scene.
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Oklahoma bombing
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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.
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Amazing thread! Keep it coming people.
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This picture makes me hyperventilate. I don't **** with heights
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This is a fantastic thread but why do some people need to ruin it with feeble attempts at humor or pictures that quite clearly are never going to be historical no matter how much they wish they were, music as important as it is to many people will never be as important as moments as iconic and tragic as are depicted here.
A favorite of mine is the wanted poster for the Weatherman, a group dedicated to protesting the injustices of the veitnam war, named after the Bob Dylan song Subterranean Homesick Blues
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A few more
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This example of emotive imagery is of child in Uganda holding hands with a missionary. The stark contrast between the two people serves as a reminder of the gulf in wealth between developed and developing countries. Mike Wells, the photographer, took this picture to show the extent of starvation in Africa. He took it for a magazine, and when they went 5 months without printing it, he decided to enter it into a competition. However, Wells has stated that he is against winning a compeition with a picture of a starving boy.
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On July 22, 1975, Stanley J. Forman took this infamous photograph while working for the Boston Herald. He climbed on the back of a fire truck as it raced towards a reported fire at Marlborough Street. Just as the crew had arrived at the scene, a young woman and small girl fell from an apartment above. The woman died instantly, but the young girl lived. This photo earned Forman a Pulitzer prize, and in addition, convinced Boston and several other cities to introduce more comprehensive fire safety laws.
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This photograph has become synonymous with The Battle of Gettysburg, which was the most bloody battle of the American Civil War. Photographer Timothy H. O’Sullivan documented and recorded the battlefield, and this picture became a sensation. For many, this was their first chance to see, first hand, the true extent of the Civil War. However, it was not until 40 years after the battle that the pictures were mass produced, as photo-engraving had not been established. The picture shows dead confederate soldiers on the battlefield, and has earned its place in history as an iconic photograph.
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I'm not going to post this photo, it is too disturbing but I'll post the link here
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Lawrence Beitler took this iconic photograph on August 7, 1930, showing the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. It sold thousands of copies, which Beitler stayed up for 10 days and nights printing them. It has become iconic over the years as it is one of the best and most recognisable images of lynchingwhich at the time was commonplace, but now serves only as a reminder of the pre-Civil Rights era. The photo shows a crowd that have turned out to view the lynching, and the audience a mixture of anger and fulfillment. The photo was so popular it has been the inspiration for many poems and songs down the years.
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These are iconic where I live because it's the city and area I grew up in, the aftermath of a Belfast Blitz attack
The Omagh bombing, a sectarian attack.
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