Powerful photographs

Somebody on Twitter drew my attention to this web page entitled '40 of the most powerful photographs ever taken'. Check it out.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/most-powerful-photographs-ever-taken

For me, this picture of a dog sitting at its owners grave for a second consecutive day was the saddest picture. It may take a few seconds to load.




None of the usual photographs I see on these types of pages were there - the monk setting themselves on fire, the vultures lurking around a sick child and so on. Some truly incredible images.

Some very poignant pictures there. For me, the ones that include children are some of the strongest ones.

The war ones mean most to me, especially the one of the US troops landing at Normandy on D-Day. Although that Koala one is cute, and the photo taken of the earth from the moon is spectacular.

some great photos largehat, thanks. my favourite is the first one of the three sisters.

Tiananmen square and the earth-rise are the most powerful ones there - but nothing spectacular at all!!

bwfc71 wrote:Tiananmen square and the earth-rise are the most powerful ones there - but nothing spectacular at all!!

Show me something more spectacular then (and not a photo of your knob).

Its a shame that the 19 year old in Tiannaman Square was never identified, or whether he was actually killed , as the American diplomat claimed.

Some amazing photos here too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149899/The-American-West-youve-seen-Amazing-19th-century-pictures-landscape-chartered-time.html

I remember very well that there was a very powerful picture taken 30 years previously about a man standing in front of a tank -



This was the story behind it -

“Shoot!” screamed the man in thee blue overalls. Emil Gallo is a municipal plumber in Bratislava. He shouts abuse at the crew of a Soveit T-55 tank and tears his shirt open, ready to die. The photo, almost a sister image to the Tank Man photo that came out from Beijing 31 years later, was the iconic image of the Prague Spring.

On August 21, 1968, tanks from Russia and four other Warsaw Pact countries rolled into Czechoslovakia to put down Prague Spring – a period of political liberalization under Alexander Dubcek. Ladislav Blielik, the photographer who captured the scene, works for the local newspaper Smena. Together with his colleagues, he printed a clandestine edition of the newspaper with this photo on the front page. A copy of the film reached the German Press Agency on the same day, and the photo was published around the world.

After the revolution had failed, Bielik had decided to stay in Czechoslovakia, but this meant the end of his professional career. He was dismissed; he continued to work but his photos were no longer good, declared the communists. He ended up as a sports photographer and was killed tragically in Budapest in 1984 at a car race. Dubcek withdrew from the public life and lived in obscurity but lived to see the collapse of the Evil Empire he so opposed. Gallo, a father of four, committed suicide three years after the photo was taken.

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-end-of-the-prague-spring/

Wouldn't that tank thing be funny, in a horrid way, if someone tried to do it again and the tank just ran him over.

They didn't know the tank wouldn't run over them the first time!

Brave men, both of them.