John Lennon did not get out of his bed until the CIA threatened him.
His antiwar campaigns where causing a great deal of trouble for them I guess. They told him if he didn't stop they where going to deport him permanently from the US. So he dialed it down.
I would venture to say that #10, the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima, is probably one of the most iconic photos in American history. Wasn't a memorial statue buillt in the USA to replicate the scene?
The Migrant Mother is one I didn't know either, but it showed up a lot on iconic photo articles.
These migrants were "Okies" that left Oklahoma to escape from the "Dust Bowl" and who went to California. Most of them were poor white farmers:
The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km 2 ) that centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. [5]
The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms. Many of these families, who were often known as " Okies " because so many of them came from Oklahoma, migrated to California and other states to find that the Great Depression had rendered economic conditions there little better than those they had left.
Dorothea Lange was the next famous photographer I was going to do a photo essay about. Her photos of the migrants and the dust bowl are iconic. The Grapes of Wrath novel has also been adapted for a movie of the same name, starring Henry Fonda.
The crisis was documented by photographers, musicians, and authors, many hired during the Great Depression by the federal government. For instance, the Farm Security Administration hired numerous photographers to document the crisis.
Artists such as Dorothea Lange were aided by having salaried work during the Depression. [45] She captured what have become classic images of the dust storms and migrant families. Among her most well-known photographs is Destitute Pea Pickers in California . Mother of Seven Children , [45] which depicted a gaunt-looking woman, Florence Owens Thompson , holding three of her children.
This picture expressed the struggles of people caught by the Dust Bowl and raised awareness in other parts of the country of its reach and human cost. Decades later, Thompson disliked the boundless circulation of the photo and resented the fact she did not receive any money from its broadcast. Thompson felt it gave her the perception as a Dust Bowl "Okie." [46]
But here's some interesting piece of trivia I just discovered. I had assumed tho woman was a "poor white Okie" (like most of the people in those Dustbowl photos). However, it turns out she was was a Cherokee Indian:
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory , present-day Oklahoma . Both her parents were Cherokee ..
[...]
While Thompson's identity was not known for over 40 years after the photos were taken, the images became famous....
And it turns out that the famous photo (#10 in this seeded article on NT) is one of a series of 6. .
The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms. Many of these families, who were often known as " Okies " because so many of them came from Oklahoma, migrated to California and other states to find that the Great Depression had rendered economic conditions there little better than those they had left.
The movie about Woodie Guthrie is called "Bound for Glory". Here is the plot as described in Wickipedia:
Plot
During the Great Depression in the 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie ( David Carradine ) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife ( Melinda Dillon ) and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression . [4]
Its called "Napalm Girl"-- she and other in her village were Napalmed by American forces.
During the Viet-Nam War, American forces regularly massacred entire villages of innocent civilians-- and of course used a lot of Napalm (which causes a horrendous death). At first it was considered "unpatriotic" to criticize the war-- but little by little opposition grew.
Here's an excellent video that tells the story of that photo and the photographer who shot it:
1. Nick Ut’s infamous 1972 photograph of charred Vietnamese children running away from the site of a napalm incidienary bomb detonated by the South Vietnamese Air Force.
2. A mass execution near Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1942, by a member of the German SS Einsatz Gruppen D
3. A 1946 photograph by W. Eugene Smith -- made when he was recovering from wounds suffered during WWII
4. Steve McCurry photo of an Afghan girl. It appeared on the cover National Geographics 125th anniversary issue.
5. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists in the Black Power Salute, at the 1968 Olympics
6. Jeff Widener photo of the famous ‘Tank Man’ in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989
7. Albert Einstein sticks out his tongue at photographers on his 72nd birthday, March 18, 1951
8. Eddie Adams photograph of South Vietnamese police chief Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Viet Cong suspect
9. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima Joe Rosenthal photo taken on February 23, 1945
10. Dorothea Lange photo, Migrant mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
11. Richard Drew photo of a man free-falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11
12. Stan Stearns photo of John F. Kennedy Jr., age 3, saluting as the casket of his father, the late President John F. Kennedy, is carried from St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 25, 1963.
13. Captain Cecil W. Stoughton photo during President Johnson's swearing-in aboard air Force One on October 22, 1963
14. Malcolm Browne photo taken in Saigon, during 1963, called The self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc.
15. Heinrich Hoffman photo June 23, 1940, Hitler touring Paris after France Surrenders.
16. Neil Leifer photo of Ali's Knockout of Sonny Liston May 25, 1965
17. Charles Ebbets' depiction of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" 1932 construction of the Empire State Building.
18. Sam Shere's photo of the Hindenberg in flames Lakehurst, N.J., Naval Air Station on May 6, 1937
19. Alberto Korda photo of Che Guevara. It was captured on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion.
20. Marilyn Monroe with the skirt of her white dress blowing as she stands over a subway grate at the corner of 51st Street and Lexington Avenue in September, 1954 during the filming of 'The Seven Year Itch'
21. Alfred Eisenstaedt's Sailor Kissing a Nurse photo taken on V-J Day August 14, 1945, in Time Square
22. Astronaut Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission Apollo 11 saluting the flag on the moon
23. Anne Frank
24. John Filo's May 4th 1970 Pulitzer prize winning photo of the Kent state shooting.
25. On July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig delivered the Gettysburg Address of baseball
You got them. Do you have a picture recognition app, or do you just have a great knowledge of historical photographs? Some of them are easy, but they are so varied that it takes a broad knowledge to have identified all of them, although they are all iconic photos and not esoteric. I know that a picture recognition app exists because I used to run a contest on the Classic Cinema group of screen shots from many classic films, asking for them to be identified, and one member actually got them all although some were almost impossible to identify - and he admitted he cheated.
Just one bit of additional information. The Eugene Smith shot is of he own children.
Do you have a picture recognition app, or do you just have a great knowledge of historical photographs?
Google search originally worked only for text. But now if you are using Windows, you can right click on an image and a window pops up-- one choice you have is:
Search Google for image
(I haven't used a Mac in years,but I imagine there's a way to do the same thing on a Mac... or maybe its actually just a function of the Internet browser?).
24. John Filo's May 4th 1970 Pulitzer prize winning photo of the Kent state shooting.
I wonder how many people remember the Kent State shootings?
It has personal meaning for me as I was also protesting the war on a state college campus-- although in my case it was a few years earlier and the school was the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill.
So-- what actually happened at Kent State?
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre ) were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio .
Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis . [6] [7]
Although I was living in Toronto at the time, I had a number of draft dodger friends, and I felt that incident through their eyes. In those days I took two of them (a folksinger and a guitar maker) as partners when I opened the first Folklore Centre in Toronto, modeled on Izzy Young's Folklore Centre in Greenwich Village. When a girl friend and I went to NYC to witness Ian and Sylvia's debut at the Bitter End, Izzy gave us the keys to his store and apartment above to look after the Centre while he went out of town for a few days. It was an amazing experience - performers would come in and jam there. My most vivid memory of it is of the cockroaches in his bathtub.
Actually I wasn't familiar with it so I googled it. (I might have been in it but don't remember that was long ago). Google says it is at the corner of MacDougal and Minetta lane. Did you by any chance know the famous Kettle of Fish bar on MacDougal? Cafe Wha? Cafe Reggio? Or Hilly's on 3rd avenue? CBGB? Fillmore East? (Those are some places I remember when I was living up in NY from the late 60s early 70s ...in NY's Greenwich Village & East Village) Hilly's on 3rd avenue? Or Spring St Bar, Broome St bar? Veselka? (Or Ty's or Stonewall? The Monster? Henrietta Hudson? LOL)
It has personal meaning for me as I was also protesting the war on a state college campus-- although in my case it was a few years earlier and the school was the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill.
I was heading to the pentagon to be a part of those demonstrations..... It has a special place in my heart also.... Glad to know it hasn't been forgotten yet.... (friggen trigger happy weekend warriors)
Although I was living in Toronto at the time, I had a number of draft dodger friends,
I knew a fair number of them at the time. Many of those crossed the border into Canada.
I had friends who took an inexpensive student ship The Goote Beer to Europe-- its was used as a "student ship"-- it had very cheap accomodations with a choice of a very inexpensive YUGE dormitory or inexpensive cabins rooms holding 8 people.
Interesting ship-- lots of detail at this link. But this part is relevant:
The Costa Rica Victory was sold for 1,005,431.00 to the Netherlands Government ( nl ) on Feb. 19, 1947. She was used as a Dutch emigrant ship after World War II.
The ship was rebuilt in 1952 to accommodate approximately 800 passengers in a single class, with large dormitories outnumbering conventional cabins. The Groote Beer made regular stops at Halifax 's Pier 21 in Nova Scotia , Canada , between 1948 and 1961.
After the ship let the Dutch students off in NY it returned to Rotterdam with students going to Europe. I was on that voyage, along with 3 friends from school (We took our junior year off-- we were bored with college and wanted to travel the world!).
Three of us eventually returned to the U.S. But one bought a motorcycle, and traveled thru south eastern Europe, through Turkey-- and even Afghanistan (which everyone said was extremely dangerous) ...and all the way to SE Asia! (The Viet Nam War was in progress at the time). He worked at odd jobs, saved enough money, took a [lane to Darwin Australia. He decided to become a citizen-- really liked it. Decided to settle there. (After a while I lost touch with him).
Jim Thorpe and other players of his time wore leather helmets and I restored a photo from roughly 1899 of an Ivy League football game in which they wore leather helmets.
11. Richard Drew photo of a man free-falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11
Yes-- he was "free-falling". What some people may not remember is that the fire and heat were so unbearable in parts of the Twin Towers that many people actually jumped rather than face a slow death from the flames and smoke.
5. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists in the Black Power Salute, at the 1968 Olympics
I remember that-- but had forgotten how long ago that was! (Interesting in light of the various "bend a knee" protests in sports-- the recent ones were by no means the first).
Wonderful photo essay, Buzz. I recognized all of them, but it wasn't until I read Nowhere Man's comment 6 that I had full information. You gave us iconic photos, and he gave us the details.
I knew that #3 would be the toughest one. I will continue my series of great photographers (my first was my artilcle about Yousef Karsh) and W. Eugene Smith will be one of them.
It is noteworthy that a big number of ironworkers were from the Iroquois tribes. For some reason unbeknownst to me they seem to be comfortable at great heights (which I am not). Amazingly, a text book I used in China to teach English to high school students had a chapter about the Iroquois ironworkers in New York City.
Amazing selection-- I remember seeing all of them. except #25 (I am not much of a sports fan).
I might not know the exact title, but I do know what they all are except #3 (Even though I've seen it many times) and #25 which I don't remember seeing.
#10 - I have the book, paperback, An amazing collection of photos. (I found it on Amazon -- I'm would've thought it would be worth a lot more):
4to. 54 (1) pages of text with interspersed b&w captioned plates. Reprinted in Gold Seal Edition by Modern Age Books, Inc.: 1937 and issued shortly after the Viking Press hardcover edition of the same year. Black & white pictorial softcover with pictorial wrappers.
``In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South, from South Carolina to Arkansas, to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen Their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass.
First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years. The poor speak for themselves, and are supported by Caldwell's commentary; they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them. Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks where they lived, the depleted fields where they plowed, and the churches where they worshiped."
Very powerful photography! It accurately shows the horrendous conditions under which these people live-- some of the photos are very heart-wrenching.
I would have posted this one as being a prime example of an iconic photo, but it's too easy to identify. "Fake news" has been around for a long time.
True.
Although in this case it might not be entirely accurate to call it fake news as it wasn't a deliberate fraud. Rather,the polls and other early indications were that Dewey did in fact win. (Newspapers made the mistake of publishing the results too early...)
Damn you know your old when you were alive when most of the photos were taken. Excellent photo essay Buzz.
There is a photo and story of Vietnam that after the America public learned of it, it was instrumental in changing the American view of the war...''Hamburger Hill''...
I won't post the photo here since it would break up the article. You can goggle it. 101st Airborne Hamburger Hill...A number of photos are available
I have seen many Hamburger Hill photos. Please post the photo that you mean. You're not breaking up anything here - I wanted discussion and member contributions. I should have asked for them.
Very nice article Buzz, well done. I managed 22 out of 25. Would like to add one photo if that's ok? I don't know a TON about the photo but I do know the photographer committed suicide 6 months later, because of the things he had seen.
The photo you posted is cut off at the bottom. I had considered including this photo, which is about the famine and starvation in Sudan. It is not known if the young girl survived. I think the vulture is hoping she didn't.
The photo's title is "Struggling Girl", Kevin Carter , taken in 1993. won the Pulitzer prize for it. (the link contains other disturbing photos that Kevin took while in Africa including the first picture ever took of a "Necklacing" victim)
When this photograph capturing the suffering of the Sudanese famine was published in the New York Times on March 26, 1993, the reader reaction was intense and not all positive. Some people said that Kevin Carter, the photojournalist who took this photo, was inhumane, that he should have dropped his camera to run to the little girl’s aid. The controversy only grew when, a few months later, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the photo. By the end of July, 1994, he was dead.
A little bit extra - John and Yoko's sleepin in Montreal. They recorded "Give Peace a Chance" in that bedroom.
John Lennon did not get out of his bed until the CIA threatened him.
His antiwar campaigns where causing a great deal of trouble for them I guess. They told him if he didn't stop they where going to deport him permanently from the US. So he dialed it down.
no...missed 4, 15, 20, and 25
Great article … we need more of these so keep 'em comin'!
I will be doing a series on individual great photographers, like Ansel Adams, etc, but I didn't get much feedback from the one I did on Yousef Karsh.
Buzz, please provide a link! i missed the article!
Here are links to all 4 Famous Photographers photo-essays I've done so far:
Thank you, Buzz!!!
Hope you have a great day!
I’m not sure of 3 and 10.
They all provoke emotion.
I would venture to say that #10, the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima, is probably one of the most iconic photos in American history. Wasn't a memorial statue buillt in the USA to replicate the scene?
I must have been mistaken with the numbers. I was referring to the image below that. The Migrant Mother
oops. I did the same thing.
Yes.
Marine Corps War Memorial
. . . and Actually in addition to the original there are several copies located in various places.
The Migrant Mother is one I didn't know either, but it showed up a lot on iconic photo articles.
And at least one postage stamp:
These migrants were "Okies" that left Oklahoma to escape from the "Dust Bowl" and who went to California. Most of them were poor white farmers:
The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km 2 ) that centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. [5]
The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms. Many of these families, who were often known as " Okies " because so many of them came from Oklahoma, migrated to California and other states to find that the Great Depression had rendered economic conditions there little better than those they had left.
The Dust Bowl has been the subject of many cultural works, notably the novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck , the folk music of Woody Guthrie , and photographs depicting the conditions of migrants by Dorothea Lange .
(LINK)
Dorothea Lange was the next famous photographer I was going to do a photo essay about. Her photos of the migrants and the dust bowl are iconic. The Grapes of Wrath novel has also been adapted for a movie of the same name, starring Henry Fonda.
Here's more on the migrant woman in #10.
The crisis was documented by photographers, musicians, and authors, many hired during the Great Depression by the federal government. For instance, the Farm Security Administration hired numerous photographers to document the crisis.
Artists such as Dorothea Lange were aided by having salaried work during the Depression. [45] She captured what have become classic images of the dust storms and migrant families. Among her most well-known photographs is Destitute Pea Pickers in California . Mother of Seven Children , [45] which depicted a gaunt-looking woman, Florence Owens Thompson , holding three of her children.
This picture expressed the struggles of people caught by the Dust Bowl and raised awareness in other parts of the country of its reach and human cost. Decades later, Thompson disliked the boundless circulation of the photo and resented the fact she did not receive any money from its broadcast. Thompson felt it gave her the perception as a Dust Bowl "Okie." [46]
But here's some interesting piece of trivia I just discovered. I had assumed tho woman was a "poor white Okie" (like most of the people in those Dustbowl photos). However, it turns out she was was a Cherokee Indian:
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory , present-day Oklahoma . Both her parents were Cherokee ..
[...]
While Thompson's identity was not known for over 40 years after the photos were taken, the images became famous....
And it turns out that the famous photo (#10 in this seeded article on NT) is one of a series of 6. .
(Read more HERE)
Your link for "Read more HERE" does not work.
The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms. Many of these families, who were often known as " Okies " because so many of them came from Oklahoma, migrated to California and other states to find that the Great Depression had rendered economic conditions there little better than those they had left.
Video: Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads
The movie about Woodie Guthrie is called "Bound for Glory". Here is the plot as described in Wickipedia:
Plot
During the Great Depression in the 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie ( David Carradine ) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife ( Melinda Dillon ) and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression . [4]
I could hardly look at the first one!
Its called "Napalm Girl"-- she and other in her village were Napalmed by American forces.
During the Viet-Nam War, American forces regularly massacred entire villages of innocent civilians-- and of course used a lot of Napalm (which causes a horrendous death). At first it was considered "unpatriotic" to criticize the war-- but little by little opposition grew.
Here's an excellent video that tells the story of that photo and the photographer who shot it:
I had read that the girl tore her clothes off herself, I assume that was because they were starting to burn.
Here's my shot at it.....
Hey, you know how to use Tineye and google. "Good job."
I knew most of them I guess 23 or so, a couple I had to find. And yes google for the details.....
Most of them need no searching that is why they are called Iconic.....
And I figured some might like the details of what's in them specifically and behind them.....
I think a lot of people here knew 22 or 23 of them.
And on mine, but I did forgive you.
No, I didn't use Tineye, nor reverse image lookup, they are all too widely known to have a need for such.....
I knew the first one was Vietnam didn't know the specific title to it so I punched in iconic images of the Vietnam War.
Then switched to image view in Firefox and there is was. These are not obscure photos by any means......
After than it was simple to research the photographer, date and background.....
Just the basics of internet searching.....
These were easy....
You got them. Do you have a picture recognition app, or do you just have a great knowledge of historical photographs? Some of them are easy, but they are so varied that it takes a broad knowledge to have identified all of them, although they are all iconic photos and not esoteric. I know that a picture recognition app exists because I used to run a contest on the Classic Cinema group of screen shots from many classic films, asking for them to be identified, and one member actually got them all although some were almost impossible to identify - and he admitted he cheated.
Just one bit of additional information. The Eugene Smith shot is of he own children.
...HIS own children.
I posted that comment before reading past NWM's list.
Google search originally worked only for text. But now if you are using Windows, you can right click on an image and a window pops up-- one choice you have is:
Search Google for image
(I haven't used a Mac in years,but I imagine there's a way to do the same thing on a Mac... or maybe its actually just a function of the Internet browser?).
More specifically, its Babi Yar:
I wonder how many people remember the Kent State shootings?
It has personal meaning for me as I was also protesting the war on a state college campus-- although in my case it was a few years earlier and the school was the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill.
So-- what actually happened at Kent State?
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre ) were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio .
Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis . [6] [7]
Although I was living in Toronto at the time, I had a number of draft dodger friends, and I felt that incident through their eyes. In those days I took two of them (a folksinger and a guitar maker) as partners when I opened the first Folklore Centre in Toronto, modeled on Izzy Young's Folklore Centre in Greenwich Village. When a girl friend and I went to NYC to witness Ian and Sylvia's debut at the Bitter End, Izzy gave us the keys to his store and apartment above to look after the Centre while he went out of town for a few days. It was an amazing experience - performers would come in and jam there. My most vivid memory of it is of the cockroaches in his bathtub.
I was heading to the pentagon to be a part of those demonstrations..... It has a special place in my heart also.... Glad to know it hasn't been forgotten yet.... (friggen trigger happy weekend warriors)
Nope, none of those places. We just went to the Bitter End.
My sister will be playing at the bitter end with her band.
Although I was living in Toronto at the time, I had a number of draft dodger friends,
I knew a fair number of them at the time. Many of those crossed the border into Canada.
I had friends who took an inexpensive student ship The Goote Beer to Europe-- its was used as a "student ship"-- it had very cheap accomodations with a choice of a very inexpensive YUGE dormitory or inexpensive cabins rooms holding 8 people.
Interesting ship-- lots of detail at this link. But this part is relevant:
The Costa Rica Victory was sold for 1,005,431.00 to the Netherlands Government ( nl ) on Feb. 19, 1947. She was used as a Dutch emigrant ship after World War II.
The ship was rebuilt in 1952 to accommodate approximately 800 passengers in a single class, with large dormitories outnumbering conventional cabins. The Groote Beer made regular stops at Halifax 's Pier 21 in Nova Scotia , Canada , between 1948 and 1961.
The Groote Beer was used to transport exchange students from Rotterdam to New York City in 1965. [15] [16]
After the ship let the Dutch students off in NY it returned to Rotterdam with students going to Europe. I was on that voyage, along with 3 friends from school (We took our junior year off-- we were bored with college and wanted to travel the world!).
Three of us eventually returned to the U.S. But one bought a motorcycle, and traveled thru south eastern Europe, through Turkey-- and even Afghanistan (which everyone said was extremely dangerous) ...and all the way to SE Asia! (The Viet Nam War was in progress at the time). He worked at odd jobs, saved enough money, took a [lane to Darwin Australia. He decided to become a citizen-- really liked it. Decided to settle there. (After a while I lost touch with him).
There were a few a similar places all close to each other if I remember correctly. I don't know if any of them except the Bitter End still exists.
Didn't you ask that same question on another article?
Jim Thorpe and other players of his time wore leather helmets and I restored a photo from roughly 1899 of an Ivy League football game in which they wore leather helmets.
I will post it later today.
As promised … look closely and you will see the leather helmets.
© A. Mac/A.G. (Restoration)
Ha, leather, plastic us tuff guys/girls only use cloth helmets.
LOL How could ANY team lose if Wiki was on the team. Nobody could possibly catch her.
Looks like she'd be a great receiver as long as the football was soft and furry.
Yes-- he was "free-falling". What some people may not remember is that the fire and heat were so unbearable in parts of the Twin Towers that many people actually jumped rather than face a slow death from the flames and smoke.
I remember that-- but had forgotten how long ago that was! (Interesting in light of the various "bend a knee" protests in sports-- the recent ones were by no means the first).
Wonderful photo essay, Buzz. I recognized all of them, but it wasn't until I read Nowhere Man's comment 6 that I had full information. You gave us iconic photos, and he gave us the details.
Soooo ... thank you Buzz and Nowhere Man!
I would have missed #s 3 and 17.
I knew that #3 would be the toughest one. I will continue my series of great photographers (my first was my artilcle about Yousef Karsh) and W. Eugene Smith will be one of them.
That #3 photo is beautiful !
I've seen both ofthem so many times that they're really very familiar to me. But I knew nothing about them!
I googled the construction workers having luinch on a beam-- so interesting results:
1. Lunch Atop a Skyscraper (1932)
2. Video (don't watch this iif you have a fear of heights!)
It is noteworthy that a big number of ironworkers were from the Iroquois tribes. For some reason unbeknownst to me they seem to be comfortable at great heights (which I am not). Amazingly, a text book I used in China to teach English to high school students had a chapter about the Iroquois ironworkers in New York City.
Mohawk Iron Worker, World Trade Center 1970.
Mohawk Iron Worker, New World Trade Center. Article
Amazing selection-- I remember seeing all of them. except #25 (I am not much of a sports fan).
I might not know the exact title, but I do know what they all are except #3 (Even though I've seen it many times) and #25 which I don't remember seeing.
#10 - I have the book, paperback, An amazing collection of photos. (I found it on Amazon -- I'm would've thought it would be worth a lot more):
4to. 54 (1) pages of text with interspersed b&w captioned plates. Reprinted in Gold Seal Edition by Modern Age Books, Inc.: 1937 and issued shortly after the Viking Press hardcover edition of the same year. Black & white pictorial softcover with pictorial wrappers.
``In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South, from South Carolina to Arkansas, to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen Their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass.
First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years. The poor speak for themselves, and are supported by Caldwell's commentary; they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them. Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks where they lived, the depleted fields where they plowed, and the churches where they worshiped."
Very powerful photography! It accurately shows the horrendous conditions under which these people live-- some of the photos are very heart-wrenching.
Lou Gehrig wiping his tears during his address in the stadium to all his fans, when he said goodbye to baseball, due to his advancing ALS disease.
I would have posted this one as being a prime example of an iconic photo, but it's too easy to identify. "Fake news" has been around for a long time.
True.
Although in this case it might not be entirely accurate to call it fake news as it wasn't a deliberate fraud. Rather,the polls and other early indications were that Dewey did in fact win. (Newspapers made the mistake of publishing the results too early...)
Damn you know your old when you were alive when most of the photos were taken. Excellent photo essay Buzz.
There is a photo and story of Vietnam that after the America public learned of it, it was instrumental in changing the American view of the war...''Hamburger Hill''...
I won't post the photo here since it would break up the article. You can goggle it. 101st Airborne Hamburger Hill...A number of photos are available
Does anyone remember when you bought postage stamps...and they were only 3 cents for post cards?
I was 5 years old when the battle of Iwo Jima took place.
I have seen many Hamburger Hill photos. Please post the photo that you mean. You're not breaking up anything here - I wanted discussion and member contributions. I should have asked for them.
Wounded Troopers, 101st Airborne. Hamburger Hill 1969.
11 assaults against a entrenched enemy, resulted in over 400 casualties and when we took the hill, we abandoned it.
Very nice article Buzz, well done. I managed 22 out of 25. Would like to add one photo if that's ok? I don't know a TON about the photo but I do know the photographer committed suicide 6 months later, because of the things he had seen.
The photo you posted is cut off at the bottom. I had considered including this photo, which is about the famine and starvation in Sudan. It is not known if the young girl survived. I think the vulture is hoping she didn't.
Well, Google clipped it for me, "to help". And no the girl did not survive.
The photo's title is "Struggling Girl", Kevin Carter , taken in 1993. won the Pulitzer prize for it. (the link contains other disturbing photos that Kevin took while in Africa including the first picture ever took of a "Necklacing" victim)
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Excellent article, Buzz! I recognized most of them!