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Firstly, apologies if there has already been a thread similar to this, but the idea of the thread is to pick ONLY 7 photographs from any period (since when photographs were first invented obviously) to sum up/symbolise what has happened in the world.

I'm limiting it to 7 to try and force people to be really selective and only select the very most iconic photos, but feel free to post fewer than 7. Please try and include 1 photograph that isn't war-based, but you're very welcome to do the rest all on war. Also I think it would be a good idea to try and do the pictures in chronological order, as if you were showing a timeline of events. Also feel welcome to post a little paragraph or description with the pictures.

My picks would be:


5 Australian soldiers cross a decimated landscape at Passenchdale, caused by the horrific trench warfare of World War 1.



British soldier wade through the tide on D-Day. I can only imagine how terrifying it would be to be the first to run in to the water as the hatch opened.



American Marines raise the star-spangled banner on Iwo Jima. For me this shows the American victory in the Pacific after the brutal 'island hopping' style conflict.



The 'mushroom cloud' formed after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. For me, a symbol of how advanced humanity had become.



Mankind arrives on the Moon. Unthinkable even 100 years previously, when no-one had ever even flown a plane!



Fall of the Berlin Wall.



Gary Lineker gives the England bench the 'he's lost it' look after Paul Gascoigne realises he won't be able to play in the World Cup final. Very famous picture in the UK. Shows how emotional sport can be.

Post: #2

The Hindenburg Disaster - 6 May 1937

   

Quote:The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937 brought an end to the age of the rigid airship.

The disaster killed 35 persons on the airship, and one member of the ground crew, but miraculously 62 of the 97 passengers and crew survived.

After more than 30 years of passenger travel on commercial zeppelins — in which tens of thousands of passengers flew over a million miles, on more than 2,000 flights, without a single injury — the era of the passenger airship came to an end in a few fiery minutes.

http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster

James Dean - 1955

   

Quote:Shot for LIFE magazine in 1955, the moody photo of James Dean walking through Times Square accurately portrayed the intensity and mystique of the short-lived, brilliant actor.

Burning Monk - 1963

   

Quote:Malcolm W. Browne captured this image of the Vietnamese monk, Thich Quang Duc, who set himself on fire to protest the Diem regime’s ruthless persecution of Buddhists.

Afghan girl - 1984

   

Quote:National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry was in the region for a story on the refugee crisis. While touring a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, he entered a large tent that served as a girls school. The first child he saw was a shy girl with fiery eyes, about 12 years old.

McCurry approached the girl, and she agreed to let him take her picture.

"I didn't think the photograph of the girl would be different from anything else I shot that day," he later recalled.

What emerged was a searingly beautiful image of a young girl with haunting eyes who came to symbolize the plight and the pain and the strength of her people.

National Geographic chose a close-up of the girl as the cover photo for the article, which ran in the June 1985 issue. Her sea green eyes striped with blue and yellow peered with a mixture of bitterness and courage from within a tattered burgundy scarf. The "Afghan girl" touched the souls of millions.

Sudan - 1993

   

Quote:Kevin Carter's 1993 photograph of a starving child in southern Sudan brought him worldwide attention -- and criticism. Carter said the girl reached a nearby feeding center after he drove the vulture off, but questions persisted about why he didn't carry her there himself. Months after winning a Pulitzer Prize for the image, the South African photographer committed suicide. He was struggling with depression and coping with the recent death of his close friend and colleague Ken Oosterbroek.

Post: #3

Cool thread. 7 is a bit too high up. Maybe any number of iconic photos would do.

Members of South Africa's right wing racist group AWB shot and killed in Bophutatswana.

Post: #4

I have a couple for now:

One is a picture taken from a dentist's office in the Chrysler building in New York, a city which I have never visited:

   

It was in a recent NY Times online article and I was struck by how futuristic every bit of it was. Something like a dentist's office, hanging in space, looking over an enormous city. The cut of the window totally asymmetric, triangular, with blue haze gradually swallowing buildings in the background. This looks like something out of Blade Runner, not out of the real world, but there it is.


Second is a ship preparing for launch, the Great Eastern:

Brunel, an English engineer, seems to have pushed for big changes in ship design and the magnitude of their construction. Iron had become commonly used, but they were putting the boats together with rivets, as arc welding wasn't quite there yet. It's surreal seeing ships this size, with workers so close, in such old photographs. These men were building floating skyscrapers.

A photo of Brunel:

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(06-11-2016 07:57 AM)Pride male Wrote:  Cool thread. 7 is a bit too high up. Maybe any number of iconic photos would do.

Members of South Africa's right wing racist group AWB shot and killed in Bophutatswana.

Absolutely, feel free to post any number of pictures, as long as it's less than 7. My reasoning was that people will either want to do a quick post of 1 or 2 pictures, or spend much longer with up to 7 photos.

Post: #7

Great thread, subscribed.
I'm a fan of WW photos so sorry if they are not really iconic but here we go.

Quote:Mussolini during the March on Rome. It was a march by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party came to power in the Kingdom of Italy. The march took place from 22 to 29 October 1922.

BTW From a Red Pill and neutral point of view, i love this picture. Mussolini was the incarnation of the Dark Triad Man, an amazing public speaker and the master of body language. Watching some of his speeches i can see why he was loved by the crowds... (apart from violence,censorship, intimidations, corruption etc)

Quote:A German soldier with Polish civilians in September, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland.

Quote:1943 The German retreat pointed out by a sicilian to Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

By the way check out Robert Capa he was an amazing war photographer!

Quote:British soldier pimpin' it with sicilian chicks

Quote:Civilians outside Orsogna, Italy, giving a drink of wine to a New Zealand soldier, 16 June 1944

Polish British and US army entering my hometown around april 21st 1945. We still have parts of the square damaged by tank tracks
in the picture an american m18 hellcat.

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(06-12-2016 08:49 AM)Il Sorpasso Wrote:  

Quote:1943 The German retreat pointed out by a sicilian to Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Brilliant historic photo, love the ones of soldiers in Sicily too. I feel like the invasion of Sicily is a pivotal part of the war that is often overlooked in World War 2 history, not too mention the 'Operation Mincemeat' deception by the British forces.

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The trio.

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The iconic Fidel Castro smoking a cigar. I could never bring it in myself to hate Fidel of all people especially when he reminds me so much of my gramps smoking like that.

Also his famous interview in Cigar Aficionado:
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatur...Fidel-6005


Soviet Flag over the Reichstag in Berlin. In my humble opinion, the Cold War started right then and there. The fear that the remaining massive Soviet Army would ride like the Mongols until they hit the Atlantic Ocean.

Truly a blessing that it didn't.



NYC circa 1932 the city of dreams and skyscrapers, and a new start for many immigrants even in darker times.



Young Frank Sinatra killing it in his prime.



U.S. soldiers liberating France and marching under the Arc de Triomphe.



JFK and Eisenhower at Camp David. Simpler times where there was less polarity between parties.



The famed Mother Teresa with a newborn child in Calcutta, India.

Post: #11

Windom Earle Wrote:Sudan - 1993

Quote:Kevin Carter's 1993 photograph of a starving child in southern Sudan brought him worldwide attention -- and criticism. Carter said the girl reached a nearby feeding center after he drove the vulture off, but questions persisted about why he didn't carry her there himself. Months after winning a Pulitzer Prize for the image, the South African photographer committed suicide. He was struggling with depression and coping with the recent death of his close friend and colleague Ken Oosterbroek.

The first time I saw this photo was during a school presentation when I was 17.

I faked a cough, went to the bathroom and cried.

Still gets me today.

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^What is that?

Post: #14

   

During World War II indigenous people nicknamed 'fuzzy-wuzzy angels' helped wounded Australian soldiers during their fight against the Japanese on the brutal Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea.

   

This photo was taken after the Australian rugby league Grand Final between St George Dragons and Western Suburbs Magpies in 1963. The photo is of both captains and was used as the basis for the current National Rugby League trophy.

Post: #15

Seems like the announcement of D-Day in...Times Square? Surprised that they had the tech in 1945 to make electric billboards with text that was presumably entered in via some sort of terminal.

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(06-26-2016 05:52 AM)RawGod Wrote:  Seems like the announcement of D-Day in...Times Square? Surprised that they had the tech in 1945 to make electric billboards with text that was presumably entered in via some sort of terminal.

Yep, a colorized version of a photo from:

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2015/0...nd-waited/

I really like that photo. The perspective, the color of the suits, the posture of everyone, the shadow of another building on the central focus, etc. Great photo.

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This is not necessarily an iconic photo, but it kept me awake last night. This is a Jewish woman being beaten by youth in Lviv Ukraine in 1941. I dont get it, what did she do to deserve that? Why would you beat or kill a defenceless woman? Maybe someone from Ukraine can explain the background because it makes no sense.

I wanted to start a thread about Anti- Semitism and Jewish Expulsion from many countries and what caused it, but I figured it borders on race trolling.

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Quote:The first time I saw this photo was during a school presentation when I was 17.

I faked a cough, went to the bathroom and cried.

Still gets me today.

Me too. I can barely look at that photo.



Just this one for now. Canadian soldiers in New Westminster shipping off to Europe. Their wives, mothers girlfriends and children escorting them to the boats.

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Here is one. An assassination of a Philippine official. The one taking the photo was assassinated.

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(07-04-2016 11:16 AM)Pride male Wrote:  This is not necessarily an iconic photo, but it kept me awake last night. This is a Jewish woman being beaten by youth in Lviv Ukraine in 1941. I dont get it, what did she do to deserve that? Why would you beat or kill a defenceless woman? Maybe someone from Ukraine can explain the background because it makes no sense.

I wanted to start a thread about Anti- Semitism and Jewish Expulsion from many countries and what caused it, but I figured it borders on race trolling.

Ever heard of the Holodomor? 10 Million Christian, Slavic civillians slaughtered by the Jewish-led, Soviet NVKD prior to the start of WW2.

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^Thanks. I will look into it.

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(07-05-2016 11:21 AM)AboveAverageJoe Wrote:  

(07-04-2016 11:16 AM)Pride male Wrote:  This is not necessarily an iconic photo, but it kept me awake last night. This is a Jewish woman being beaten by youth in Lviv Ukraine in 1941. I dont get it, what did she do to deserve that? Why would you beat or kill a defenceless woman? Maybe someone from Ukraine can explain the background because it makes no sense.

I wanted to start a thread about Anti- Semitism and Jewish Expulsion from many countries and what caused it, but I figured it borders on race trolling.

Ever heard of the Holodomor? 10 Million Christian, Slavic civillians slaughtered by the Jewish-led, Soviet NVKD prior to the start of WW2.

Yeah, if you try to genocide someone don't be surprised if they want to genocide you right back.

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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Two young men trying to conquer the heights of the planet.

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Don't forget this one.

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The Vietnam Era created great art, not to seem callous but it was almost made for B&W photos.









WW2 produced some great cellulose as well