Iconic photographs
 

Fairly simple, post a picture that's iconic, or amazing, or particularly meaningful to you. I'll start with this, of the Normandy landings.

The Pentagon.
http://911review.org/img/SIPA-N0116740.JPG

Accurate missile.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...untitled-1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nake_River.jpg
Going through a lot of Ansel Adam's work more or less inspired/drove me to pursue photography. I would major in photojournalism if I was a freshman again.

Vietnam
http://www.vietnammemorial.com/vietnam-soldiers-2.jpg

The Titanic
http://members.aol.com/WakkoW5/titanic.jpg

rkzenrage, thats a great picture. I was thinking of posting it myself but I thought I'd leave it until later. She's so beautiful. This is her about 20 years later, which I guess tells you a lot about living in Afghanistan.

oh yeah

http://www.historywiz.com/images/hol...uprisoners.gif

http://carol_fus.tripod.com/prisoner8.JPEG

http://decapode.no.sapo.pt/WW%201/Dachau1.jpg

Earthrise from Apollo 8

THE iconic photograph of a band that means so much to many people, myself included.

And the first photograph ever taken.

Anything by Margaret Bourke-White

http://www.mediabistro.com/content/a...4/09/17/sa.jpg

The Miner's Strike, 1984, sometimes referred to as England's second civil-war: the Battle of Orgreave.

Liberation

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/10...046bbd96_b.jpg

CENTRAL IRAQ - APRIL 04: An American flag reflects in the sunglasses of United States Marine Lance Corporal Kristopher Ecker from Irvington, Kentucky as he attaches an American flag to their armored attack vehicle April 4, 2003 as they move through central Iraq. The Marines continue to sweep through the country looking for enemy forces. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Heroes.

Kent State:

Napalm strike -1972 - Vietnam:

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FDR passing:

1968

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Two heavy hitters.

I swear I would have posted this even if it hadn't come up in another thread:

http://www.temple.edu/photo/photogra...rpe/horses.jpg

I can't look at that pic without thinking "It's Candy Slice!"

This one always freaked me out,I remember seeing the actual film footage of this exection when I was a kid and it was the matter of fact way in which the army guy just walked up and shot him that got me.. scary

Harold "Doc" Edgerton's seminal work in high speed photography.

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whats that of?

a lynching , I would suspect it is in the south some where ,

Yup. Strange Fruit.

That picture is I think a salutary lesson to anyone who thinks African Americans are making a big deal out of stuff that happened a long time ago. It really wasn't so long ago that lynching black men was no big deal in the South. Look at that photograph and look at the whites al gathered around. Do they look like they just ended the life of two human beings, or do they look like they just strung up a couple of wild animals? Some of the children of those people are likely to still be alive and well. It wasn't such a long time ago at all.

those look like white guys hanging to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit

Here's a link to a page about the (excellent) song written about the event.

Where I'm from, Indiana is not the south.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shipp

I have a friend who witnessed a lynching. He is black and was a child at the time.

IF they did actually commit the rape they were accused of then black or white, lynch them.

That's a huge if. Accusations of rape of white women, by black men was one of the de rigour weapons of the white supremacists throughout the period from reconstruction, through Jim Crow and into the Civil Rights era.

Also....you say 'if they did actually commit the rape...then lynch them'. How does a lynch mob determine guilt? Without due process and a legal defence, how can you be sure the person you are lynching is guilty? Because someone pointed to them and said 'It was them'?

ffs, sorry the "IF" in capitals in my post wasn't big enough and that i couldn't be bothered explaining the legal process that determined whether "they did actually commit the rape" was a fair and unbiased one or not. and sorry my "black or white" line wasn't clear enough that i wasn't talking about that exact situation but rather the crime in general. so putting that "..." in quoting me completely changes what i said.

now can we get back to iconic photographs.

sheesh!

So really you are just advocating Hanging as a punishment for rape? Because 'lynching' by its very nature rarely involves due process, it's a vigilante act. You are being quite flippant about a pretty nasty affair. But yes, let's get back to the iconic photos.

dont tell me how to how im being about lynchings. my earliest childhood friend was found hanging from a tree with words like "spic" written all over him. he was in the army and his death was classed as suicide. dont call me flippant either.

im so angry i could just...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...light-crew.png

I'm very sorry to hear that. It's not of course something I could possibly have known. All I have to go on are your words on this forum. Your words came across as flippant. That is an iconic image because it depicts the absolute depths of racism to which one country sank.


{edited to add} Okay, maybe I am being a tad tetchy. I am sitting here, trying to pull an essay together and it's very heavy going, I am in something of a bad mood :P

*Wanders off to find some potley and rizlas*

This photo is of a US soldier, Major Mark Bieger, running a little girl to an army hospital after terrorists attacked his patrol with a car bomb. At the time of the attack a bunch of children were crowded around them.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u.../iraqigirl.jpg

Supposedly my dad knows a guy who knows a guy who can get him in contact with him.

If I meet him I'll let you know.

to be honest, and no i didnt get this from south park but it is true, seeing it as white people hanging black people is bad too. and it does just look like 2 people being hung, not 2 black people being hung.

not sure if this is really an iconic photo but it has meaning to an iconic event
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/diana_car.jpg

Is that Dianna;s car?

An ant carrying a microchip. :)

That's fucking awesome

written with individual Xenon atoms (37 of them)
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/pages/pics/ibm.jpg

Oh how totally cool!

how come we havent had

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Alb...C10287697.jpeg

http://cellar.org/2007/joselima.jpg

Jose Lima sings the Nat'l Anthem, supported by his lovely wife Melissa

omg after i posted my che. i wanted to post...

http://a406.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...664581bc35.jpg