Powerful Images

[ChrisZimbo]

http://weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/images-that-changed-world.html

warning, some of them may be disturbing depending on the person you are. Over all these are some amazing at the same time depressing pictures.

 

[Flipmo]

The one with the workers sleeping and eating lunch on the beam is crazy...

The one with the vulture stalking the child thats even more psycho... and the photographer killed himself eventually

 

[S O F I]

On my uni campus, there's an Italian pizza place and they have that workers eating lunch photo enlarged and framed on the wall.

 

[keco52]

The fireman holding the baby is soo sad and the little girl that's trapped in her own home made my eyes water.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

On my uni campus, there's an Italian pizza place and they have that workers eating lunch photo enlarged and framed on the wall.

Thats one of my favourite photos.

 

[ill_joe]

I ain't going to lie, I had tears in my eyes by the time I reached the end of the page.

 

[Stred]

is it true that, that monk who burnt himself, his heart didnt burn or some crap?

 

[Tha_Wood]

yeh it just shrunk

 

[Stred]

thats fuked up!!

 

[Rahim]

most of those stories are pretty sad

 

[Jay_Dub]

With that first image they made a mistake, he wasn't a suspected Viet Cong, he actually was a Viet Cong, and the guy who shot him, the chief of the South Vietnamese Police, he shot the guy because that guy killed his family. No bullshit. I just studied the Vietnam war at Uni last semester and we had to study famous images from the war. And before anyone tries to tell me I'm only saying this cos I'm anti-communist, I'm not anti communist in fact I think Ho Chi Minh was right and the rest of the world had no right to interfere with Vietnam as they posed no threat to the rest of the world.

 

[Jay_Dub]

Oh and also the picture of that lil girl running naked after her clothes were burnt off by napalm, there's actually a larger shot of that picture, and on the right there is one American soldier helping another lil kid, and then there's another American soldier to the right of him who's ignoring the whole thing and lighting a cigarette. Shows the different attitudes Americans had to the Vietnamese.

 

[stefanwzyga]

Some crazy photos. The one with the workers on the sky scraper is nuts! Not much health and safety back in those days.

 

[goymz]

There is video footage of the napalm girl which is readily availible but the photo has become more culturally common.

Jay Dub is kind of right about the Viet Cong execution. The story behind this photo is largely twisted. Very simple version: The soldier had just learnt some of his family had died. Some suspected rebels had been captured. The soldier asked if any of them were from the area in which family members died, then shot the one that was. I'm sure a quick google search can clear this up.

The raising of the American Flag was staged. And no, that shitty movie which name I forget does not portray the real story accurately.

And as for the Vulture, he commited suicide because the British press publicly hung the guy out to dry. He was a photojournalist and not quite so fancy with words so had an incredibly tough time defending himself. He waited twenty minutes for the vulture to move into place so he could take that photo. He was asked questions on television like 'why didn't you do something to help.' What isn't widely known is that the childs mother is out of shot and had already abandoned him - there was no way the child would have lived.

I find it a shame with the photo of the falling man, it is often overlooked that it captures both of the towers in an a way where luck defies perspective and angle, and it is all centred by the man himself.

I'd seen them eating on the skyline construction but never sleeping...wow. Wow at the how life begins pic too.