Photographs That Changed The World

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Anne Frank 1941

Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come.

Photographer Unknown



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 搕he South抯 toughest city,

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Breaker Boys1910

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抯 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 揵reaker boys,

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Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla 1968

With North Vietnam抯 Tet Offensive beginning, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam抯 national police chief, was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. As Loan executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain, AP photographer Eddie Adams opened the shutter. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for a picture that, as much as any, turned public opinion against the war. Adams felt that many misinterpreted the scene, and when told in 1998 that the immigrant Loan had died of cancer at his home in Burke, Va., he said, 揟he guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him.

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Hazel Bryant - Another Landmark Image

It was the fourth school year since segregation had been outlawed by the Supreme Court. Things were not going well, and some southerners accused the national press of distorting matters. This picture, however, gave irrefutable testimony, as Elizabeth Eckford strides through a gantlet of white students, including Hazel Bryant (mouth open the widest), on her way to Little Rock抯 Central High.



Clarence Hailey Long, 1949 - Another Landmark Image

This is C.H. Long, a 39-year-old foreman at the JA ranch in the Texas panhandle, a place described as

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Lynching 1930

A mob of 10,000 whites took sledgehammers to the county jailhouse doors to get at these two young blacks accused of raping a white girl; the girl抯 uncle saved the life of a third by proclaiming the man抯 innocence. Although this was Marion, Ind., most of the nearly 5,000 lynchings documented between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence of 揓udge Lynch.

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Tiananmen Square 1989

A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a million as the injustices of a nation cried for reform. For seven weeks the people and the People抯 Republic, in the person of soldiers dispatched by a riven Communist Party, warily eyed each other as the world waited. When this young man simply would not move, standing with his meager bags before a line of tanks, a hero was born. A second hero emerged as the tank driver refused to crush the man, and instead drove his killing machine around him. Soon this dream would end, and blood would fill Tiananmen. But this picture had shown a billion Chinese that there is hope.



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, 揥hy print this picture, anyway, of three American boys dead upon an alien shore?

homer_simpson

ni sebahagian gmbar dari buku yg saye bace kat library ari ni, 100 photographs that changed the world.

nak pinjam die tak kasi lak:@ :@ :@ :@

kekbelacan

pasal aku buka tak dapat ?

sosimple

kalau de gmbr skali lg menarik.....

yg nmpk breaker boys ngan bwh dia jer....

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South of the DMZ 1966
            
            Contrary to the constraints that were put upon the press in subsequent             conflicts, and even to the embedded program used in the recent Iraqi             war, correspondents and photographers in Vietnam could, as Walter             Cronkite wrote in LIFE, 揳ccompany troops to wherever they could             hitch a ride, and there was no censorship . . . That system梠r             lack of one梜ept the American public well informed of our soldiers

alphawolf

Juga gambar seorang kanak2 pompuan Vietnam berlari sambil menjerit kesakitan. Dia berbogel sebab pakaiannya (dan badannya juga) terbakar akibat bom napalm.

homer_simpson

Originally posted by sosimple at 5-4-2008 11:11 PM
kalau de gmbr skali lg menarik.....

yg nmpk breaker boys ngan bwh dia jer....

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Originally posted by alphawolf at 6-4-2008 03:14 PM
Juga gambar seorang kanak2 pompuan Vietnam berlari sambil menjerit kesakitan. Dia berbogel sebab pakaiannya (dan badannya juga) terbakar akibat bom napalm.

dullah_reader

"Guerrillero Heroico" - Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara.


Che Guevara (photo)


"Guerrillero Heroico" - Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara.Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara entitled: "Guerrillero Heroico" (translates to: "Heroic Guerrilla"), was taken on March 5, 1960 at a Cuban funeral service for victims of the La Coubre explosion,[1] but was published internationally seven years later. To take the photo, Korda used a Leica M2 with a 90mm lens, loaded with Kodak Plus-X film. Guevara was 31 at the time the photo was taken.

Showing the image's ubiquitous nature and wide appeal, the Maryland Institute College of Art called this picture "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century."[2] The V&A Museum also proclaims it "the most reproduced image in the history of photography."[3] Jonathan Green director of the UCR Museum of Photography has postulated that "Korda抯 image has worked its way into languages around the world. It has become an alpha-numeric symbol, a hieroglyph, an instant symbol. It mysteriously reappears whenever there抯 a conflict. There isn抰 anything else in history that serves in this way

edmundo

Erm....ttg pacakan bendera amerika di bulan oleh neil amstrong..?

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Originally posted by edmundo at 9-4-2008 02:37 PM
Erm....ttg pacakan bendera amerika di bulan oleh neil amstrong..?

gjoy_chester

           

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
            
            This photograph. taken on November 10, 1962 (from less than 500 ft.             altitude at a speed of 713 mph). Clearly shown are Soviet-built SA-2             surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) in place at launch sites. It is claimed             that this was President Kennedy's favorite photo of the installations,             and was mounted in the oval office. He used this photo to demonstrate             the nature of the threat that the offensive weapons provided. The             pattern of dots surrounding the sites are claimed to be camouflage             nets..
         

        

        


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 搕he             most influential environmental photograph ever taken.