Iconic photographs - Page 7

skysidhe · 05-24-2007, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

All the other ones that I immediately thought of have already been posted.

Kind of a shame that "Iconic" often means "Tragic".

touching in a beautiful way

bigw00dy · 05-25-2007, 09:19 AM

This is iconic to me...although its a video not a photo....
Yul Brenner

Kitsune · 05-25-2007, 01:12 PM

Pale Blue Dot

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Originally Posted by Carl Sagan

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

BigV · 05-25-2007, 01:18 PM

Thanks Kitsune for my newest wallpaper. It may be hard to be humble, but this sure helps.

Sundae · 05-25-2007, 04:47 PM

Tragic in this case as well I'm afraid.

Scott and his party at the Pole, having just discovered that Amundsen beat them there. For those who don't know the story, all 5 perished on their way back. From the left Wilson, Scott, Evans, Oates, Bowers.

For me, an equally iconic photo is that of Wilson, Bowers and Cherry-Garrard on their return from The Winter Journey (prior to the push for the Pole), but that depends on having read The Worst Journey in the World and I thought it might look deliberately obscure.

glatt · 12-28-2007, 08:25 AM

East German border guard Conrad Schumann jumps over the Berlin Wall during its construction and flees to the West. It was only barbed wire at this point in 1961.

classicman · 12-28-2007, 10:58 AM

WOW! amazing thread.

SparkStalker · 12-28-2007, 12:12 PM

On that note...

classicman · 12-28-2007, 02:25 PM

FWIW, I have a copy of the R.I. Herald with this historic event on the cover.

Drax · 12-28-2007, 06:19 PM

Will Rogers (1879-1935):

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

Drax · 12-29-2007, 04:36 AM

TheMercenary · 12-31-2007, 04:21 PM

TheMercenary · 12-31-2007, 04:22 PM

Check these out.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundfor...y-exhibit.html

JuancoRocks · 12-31-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Check these out.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundfor...y-exhibit.html

There are some really interesting photos there....Thanks

xoxoxoBruce · 12-31-2007, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Check these out.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundfor...y-exhibit.html

That WPA project recorded an amazing look at US, at the end of the depression and the beginning of WWII.

05-25-2007, 09:19 AM	#92
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classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	FWIW, I have a copy of the R.I. Herald with this historic event on the cover. Attached Images __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

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Drax Banned Join Date: May 2007 Location: Gallman, MS, USA Posts: 1,933	Will Rogers (1879-1935): "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

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