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.

Accurate missile.

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

The Titanic

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

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

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

Liberation

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:

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

DanaC;331899 wrote:

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.

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.

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'?

DanaC;332175 wrote:

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...

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.

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.

Kagen4o4;330843 wrote:

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.

DanaC;332187 wrote:

That is an iconic image because it depicts the absolute depths of racism to which one country sank.

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

Is that Dianna;s car?

An ant carrying a microchip. :)

That's fucking awesome

written with individual Xenon atoms (37 of them)

Oh how totally cool!

how come we havent had

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

Undertoad;332609 wrote:

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

I've seen them.

Herbert West in full reanimating flow.

Is that Jeffery Combs? :)

Yes! It is! My all time favourite schlock horror actor.....in my all time favourite schlock horror film:)

Re-animator! I also recognize him from star trek. :)

Oh he was great in that. I especially liked Weyoun from ds9.

Liquidator brunt was my favorite!

This is one of my favourite film images. Nowadays we've all seen it done to death in every type of spoof, from adverts to comedy shows, but this must have leapt out of the screen at people when it was first shown. The composition is beautiful.

Brunt was awesome. "A contract, is a contract, is a contract" I couldn't get over the fact he and weyoun were the same actor.

DanaC;332800 wrote:

This is one of my favourite film images. Nowadays we've all seen it done to death in every type of spoof, from adverts to comedy shows, but this must have leapt out of the screen at people when it was first shown. The composition is beautiful.

What is that from?

DanaC;332801 wrote:

Brunt was awesome. "A contract, is a contract, is a contract" I couldn't get over the fact he and weyoun were the same actor.

He also played this character from enterprise.

What is that from?

Nosferatu. A 1922 silent movie. The original vampire film. Truly a masterpiece of cinema, and exquisite to watch.


I liked the enterprise character, but I didn't think they did enough with him. I'd have liked to explore the character more.

Undertoad;332610 wrote:

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

DUDE, look at those cans

:drool: :eek:

(ut, i thought there was a jerkin off smiley ... i've seen that on other boards. can we get that too??)

internet iconic. search moshzilla for many variations, including one by garreh the keg

Internet iconic:

internet iconic...even though its a video

Madskillz!

Kagen. I love Starwars kid. What a hero. I love how earnest he is

Undertoad;332610 wrote:

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

What's the other one called?

Bob

proof of general relativity

This one by Kevin Carter.

King;346394 wrote:

This one by Kevin Carter.

very painful photo there

I was astonished when Carter said he didn't know the outcome, whether the boy made it to the camp, because he took the picture and left.

King;330804 wrote:

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.

Just saw the documentary about finding her -- the "Afghan girl"

Construction workers take a break from their work on the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in New York to have lunch atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground. The photo was taken Sept. 29, 1932.

Harriet Tubman (far left, holding a pan) with slaves she helped during the Civil War.

The Loneliest Job - 1961 - President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office.

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

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

Muhammad Ali - 1965 1st Round Knock out Against Sonny Liston

wolf;346589 wrote:

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

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

Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan wrote:

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.

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

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.

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.

WOW! amazing thread.

On that note...

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

Will Rogers (1879-1935):

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

Check these out.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

TheMercenary;420418 wrote:

Check these out.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

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

TheMercenary;420418 wrote:

Check these out.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

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

Iconic Beauty


North america before/during the great blackout


Albino peacock, always an icon (to me at least)

Life magazine chimes in:

100 Photographs that Changed the World

gtown;435700 wrote:

Life magazine chimes in:

100 Photographs that Changed the World

I'm looking through the photographs with interest, but am starting to notice that these are the Life magazine publication versions that I understand are 'shopped (airbrushed).
i.e Kent State shootings (pool of blood) and inaugauration of Lyndon B. Johnson (blood stains on Jacqueline Kennedy's coat)
I am also relaizing that many are 'Photographs that Changed the USA', and while still dramatic pictures, had little social impact outside the USA.:rolleyes:
Perhaps "Photographs that Changed our World' would have been better.
Edit: also only 28 images are available :headshake

One of XPs own:

I've been there. I think they closed the sidewalk but you use to be able to walk nearly, but not up to the stones. Very cool.

It makes for better photographs this way. No other tourists in all you shots like before.

Here's one for any baseball fans...

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, this pic has been in a family album for more than a century. It's a beautiful photograph in and of itself, not to mention the significance. Article here.

When asked to name people we most admire, I pick Helen Keller.

Enjoy.

How come there's no color?

And so ends my glimmer of hope for humanity. :headshake

:rolleyes:

Thats great - still amazes me that stuff like that exists as unknown. You'd think it would have been looked at or found at some point over the last 100 or so years.