What are your first comments and thoughts when you see the photo? In the media you sometimes see photographes that you will always remember. Some of these and their stories at 1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days. January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student. 1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning. 1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments. 1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs. 1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier. February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier. 1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town. 1973. A few seconds before Chile's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup. 1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses. 1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire. February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe. 1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon. 1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections. 1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms. 1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger. 1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels. 1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola. 2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan. 2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried. 2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.
I have seen some of these pics while i was taking the course in GCSE history. Wow some of these picks are grusome.
Life is full of injustice and misery.... Hoping that humans will eventually be CIVILIZED one day to know the meaning of love and tolerance.
Leaves u speechless after lookin at those pictures :( But I remember the one of that naked girl runnin.. Kim phuc [Dunno if thats how u spell her last name] We learnt about her in GCSE humanities
i remember seeing some of those pictures in a National Geogrphic issue...it puts in perspective things people go through during war's, its stuff that we will never see on news
this needs something happy man i want to find it but a few years ago as a celebration for memorial day/or was it it rememberance day they found the same couple (now old and grey) and redid the scene it was so cute,
I dont understand if this is more of a good thing or bad thing since when they did those pictures they are picturing ppl killing others and they dont seem like they mind
Famous photo's indeed and they remind us of how cruel humans can be and it's just a selection of the many many horrendous things happening all over the world captured in pics. :(
Haha, Mav why did you name your thread Famous photos... More like Horrifying Photos to me... I had goosebumps looking at those photos :( It's sad how the world is... Then I had the urge to listen to Michael Jackson's HEAL THE WORLD and MAN IN THE MIRROR -lol How about coming up with some Famous photos showing the good side of humanity? 3 of the most touching ones for me:
Thanks for posting up these pictures. i am recently taking a class called history of photography, these pictures does capture the history of the events that has happened! thanks..
jeeze... there are lots of famous happy photos out there too... why u only post the sad ones, lol ur killin my day
