What Professional Photos Do You Think Are Significant or Unforgettable?
What Professional Photos Do You Think Are Significant or Unforgettable?
Photography has been in existence for about two centuries. So many photos have been taken during that time, but let us think about the photos that are special in one way or another. Those that are considered historical, reminders of important events or people, photos that come to your mind when you read or hear some news or ones that you envision when you put your mind to thinking of photos that had impressed you or caused you concern in the past.
I have come up with 10 photos that I feel, in my opinion, are valuable reminders of important persons or events. If you can think of any, please post them, whether it be 10 or only 1 or any number in between. If they are important photos you will most likely find them on Google or Microsoft Bing, so copy and paste them with your comment, with an indication of why you chose them.
I am posting 10 photos in no particular order that I personally feel are special for one reason or another.
1. Men sitting on a steel beam high up on a New York City skyscraper under construction. Since I'm a bit acrophobic I actually feel a little discomfort looking at it. I can't understand how they can look so comfortable.
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2. The raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. A photo considered so iconic a statue was made from the image.
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3. Eisenstaedt's famous photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. There is some controversy over whether she was willing or not.
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4. One of the most famous photographic portraits of all time. Canadian portrait photographer Yousef Karsh's photo of Winston Churchill appeared on a Life Magazine cover, and there is a great story about why the scowl. An article about the theft of the portrait was recently posted on NT.
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5. The Kent State shooting. Why? In my mind I keep asking that question. Whenever the Vietnam war is mentioned, or I read a reference to it, that image pops up in my mind.
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6. Is this not the image that comes to mind whenever one thinks of Marilyn Monroe?
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7. Napalm girl. This is a haunting image of the horrors of war.
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8. John John saluting his father's casket - could ANYONE forget that photo?
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9. Can a pair of eyes bore into you from a photograph? Here you go.
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10. Establishing that a very long tongue could indicate a very brilliant mind.
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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This idea worked with movies, so let's see if trying it with photos will work.
I too am acrophobic and that first picture gives me the willies......................
I'm with you, brother.
Some of the ones I was going to mention are on your list. I would add the photo of the South Vietnamese officer shooting the Viet Cong suspect in the head, Rosemary Woods sitting with the Nixon tapes she edited 18 minutes out of, Melania Trump's golden baby carriage, the tiki torch parade at Charlottesville. I'll think of some more.
Rosemary Woods, President Nixon's personal secretary, demonstrating the 'Rose Mary Stretch'. She showed photographers how she may have caused the 18 1/2-minute gap in a crucial June 20, 1972 Watergate tape.
I considered the Vietnamese execution, but my list was long enough.
I have seen all of those so many times-- everyone I could think of has been posted already!
(Well, one exception-- to ther best of my memory,I'm pretty sure I've never seen Melania and the Golden Baby carriage).
I could have added another 10 easily.
Well Buzz I don’t have a photo to share but I hope you don’t mind me sharing a poem. Every time I see the photo (#8) I remember this poem.
Very moving. Thank you for resurrecting yourself from long ago to post that.
Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive on Wednesday after the blizzard of historic proportions. The road has been closed
Sorry, JR, but I'm unable to open both of those images. Please save them to your computer's picture library and then post them from there.
Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive on Wednesday after the blizzard of historic proportions. The road has been closed
Thank you. Those are the kind of scenes that are very familiar to a Canadian.
One of many significant and memorable photos by Ansel Adams - Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park
Memorable due to its magnificence.
Actually, you're right. Who can possibly forget that.
omaha beach, photographed by Robert Capa
Another one I can't open, so please do as I suggested above.
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Okay, got it, thanks.
The Hindenburg disaster
"Oh, the humanity." DAMN!!! I was GOING to post that one but I must have got sidetracked.
The Vietnam War was and is a large part of many American's lives.
The sense of brotherhood in the photo is palpable, as is the sense of anguish and desperation. Nearly half of the company had been killed in a firefight and the survivors waited two days for a medevac helicopter to arrive. The First Sergeant raised his arms in the air to signal the chopper, but he might as well have been lifting them in prayer.
Greenspon’s indelible image landed on the front page of The New York Times and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Thank you, Kavika.
What a sad useless waste of American lives that war was. 58,220 American soldiers lost their lives there. Echoing the ugly words of Canada' s Prime Minister McKenzie King when asked how many Jewish Refugees would he allow into Canada at the end of WW2 "NONE IS TOO MANY".
FDR was also very anti-Semitic. He didn't want "inferior races" diluting the racial purity of "Americans". (He also believed Asian were "inferior"-- so he rounded up Japanese citizens and put them in camps).
IIRC, one of the few countries to welcome Jewish refugees was the Dominican Republic.
From Wikipedia:
The Dominican Republic was the only sovereign country willing to accept mass Jewish immigration immediately prior and during World War II , the only alternative being the Shanghai International Settlement .
At the Évian Conference , it offered to accept up to 100,000 Jewish refugees. [ 8 ] It is estimated that 5,000 visas were actually issued, and the vast majority of the recipients did not reach the country because of how hard it was to get out of occupied Europe. [ 9 ]
Hispanola is an island close to Puerto Rico. It consists of two countries. There is an international border running from North to South. East of the border is the Spanish speaking country called The Dominican Republic. (Almost all aspects of their culture is similar-- almost identical-- to that of Puerto Rico).
West of the border is the (French speaking) country of Haiti.
Neither Roosevelt nor Canada's Prime Minister would allow the refugees on board the SS St. Louis to embark so they had to return to Europe and many were then slaughtered in the Nazi concentration camps.
Of course I knew about Shanghai but I wasn't aware of the Dominican Republic.
I've kniwn about it for a while-- but I wonder why they did it when so many other countries didn't.
The U.S. has fought in many wars-- some reall big and long lasting, and a few short "minor" ones. But IIRC. The Viet-Nam War was said to be the only War the U.S. lost.
The Viet-Nam War was said to be the only War the U.S. lost.
Anyone remember this photo?
I don't, but I do remember this one.
"Hanoi Jane"
That she be.
Evening...this one..
Certainly wasn't my photo..😊
It isn't? LOL
This brings to mind a complaint I've had about what Neil Armstrong said. It was reported at that time that he had said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." But at that time I heard a little static between the words "for" and "man" and I KNEW he had to have said "for A man", because the word "man" used in the context that was wrongly reported meant exactly the same as "mankind" and that would have been unnecessarily repetitive, even ridiculous. And here is the proof that I was right.
Armstrong’s famous ‘one small step’ quote — explained
LINK -> Armstrong’s famous ‘one small step’ quote — explained (navytimes.com)