Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

Feeky Magee · 25-11-2009 1:40am #1

Iconic pictures are more effective then any story. Sometimes you see photographs that just take your breath away. The following photos; some famous, some infamous, did exactly that to me on first viewing. They will live on, as a permanent reminder of the events which caused them.

Tienemen Square Protest:

9/11:

Mai Lai Massacre:

Soviet Flag Over Reichstag:

Vietnam Shooting:

Afghan Girl:

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Saddam Hussein Captured:

Hindenberg:

Ali:

Rosa Parks:

Fake Bigfoot:

Marilyn Monroe:

Earthrise:

Feel free to add your own!

dr.bollocko · 26-11-2009 12:17am

Good thread idea!
<insert flaming monk here>

Takk · 26-11-2009 12:21am

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Good thread idea!
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Feeky Magee · 26-11-2009 12:43am

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Good thread idea!
<insert flaming monk here>

Something along the lines of this?

Incredible inner strength.

Liam Byrne · 26-11-2009 12:48am

Feeky Magee wrote: »

Vietnam Shooting

Sorry to spoil the party, but at least two of those are apparently the biggest cons in history, one completely out of context, one 100% faked.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2QxNWY0N2ZkY2IxMWJhZGQ4MTU3ZjhlZjg3NTk0NzE=

http://www.creationtips.com/bigfoot.html

And that's not even including the "possible" moon landing as having a question mark.

Here's another one that caused heartache and confusion (documentary on TV a few months back).

GLaDOS · 26-11-2009 12:53am

Shook the world of football anyway

pistonsvox · 26-11-2009 1:19am

the usual

BrokenArrows · 26-11-2009 1:22am

AlmightyCushion · 26-11-2009 1:31am

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

It didn't exactly shake the world but still manages to amaze anyone I've shown it to.

hightower1 · 26-11-2009 2:26am

Hubbles Ultra deep field....

Loveless · 26-11-2009 3:00am

JFK's son saluting at his father's funeral:

Atomic bomb:

Elian Gonzalez, Miami

Black Panthers at the Mexico Olympics:

Challenger disaster

OutlawPete · 26-11-2009 5:17am

The last two photos would be the only ones that are iconic but included five as it adds more context.

a-k-47 · 26-11-2009 5:47am

ZiMZuM · 26-11-2009 7:27am

This was the 1st picture that came to my mind..

Feeky Magee · 26-11-2009 9:02am

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Sorry to spoil the party, but at least two of those are apparently the biggest cons in history, one completely out of context, one 100% faked.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2QxNWY0N2ZkY2IxMWJhZGQ4MTU3ZjhlZjg3NTk0NzE=

http://www.creationtips.com/bigfoot.html

And that's not even including the "possible" moon landing as having a question mark.

Here's another one that caused heartache and confusion (documentary on TV a few months back).

I am aware of the context and detail of both photos, it may even be why I labelled the Bigfoot one "Fake Bigfoot" don'tcha think? :rolleyes:

As for the Vietnam one, it certainly meets the criteria of the thread as having shaken the world, regardless of the facts that emerged afterwards.

spurious · 26-11-2009 9:11am

ZiMZuM wrote: »

This was the 1st picture that came to my mind..

That's the first one I thought of too. Terrible.

Turtwig · 26-11-2009 9:23am

Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin:

Chernobyl Reactor 4:

First MRI Brain Scan :
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Not really regarded as an iconic photograph at the time, shame too because today it stands as one of the most important inventions of all time :
The First Transistor.

foxyboxer · 26-11-2009 10:37am

The Blue Marble from Apollo 17

Focused people on environmentalism.

foxyboxer · 26-11-2009 10:40am

Sputnik - The catalyst for the Space Race

Diana Car Crash

Vietnam

Prisoner Abuse

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gerk86 · 26-11-2009 10:50am

that image from hubble is astounding. Each galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars with hundreds of billions of solar systems. it's a good case for intelligent life out there!

not that we'll ever, EVER meet

My name is URL · 26-11-2009 11:12am

The Lynching of Young Blacks -

Che -

The Kiss -

Iraq POW with Child -

paddyland · 26-11-2009 1:15pm

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Sorry to spoil the party, but at least two of those are apparently the biggest cons in history, one completely out of context, one 100% faked.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2QxNWY0N2ZkY2IxMWJhZGQ4MTU3ZjhlZjg3NTk0NzE=

What a great story, I never knew that. A sober lesson about taking things at face value, about ASSUMING anything in this life. A moving story too. Well done. Thanks Liam.

Here's a more modern one, from the internet age. Neda Agha Soltan, shot by a sniper in Iran. A ripple went around the Earth when this YouTube video appeared...

amacachi · 26-11-2009 1:38pm

Any chance of a "dead/dying bodies" warning in the title?

Oink · 26-11-2009 2:03pm

Now that one, that one...
I just don't know if I should puke or punch someone.

panda100 · 26-11-2009 2:17pm

Is the hubble one a pic of stars,planets,solar systems etc??
If so, that is amazing.Makes you think just how insignificant our little planet really is in the grand scheme of things.

Auvers · 26-11-2009 2:20pm

ibarelycare · 26-11-2009 2:41pm

Oink wrote: »

Now that one, that one...
I just don't know if I should puke or punch someone.

What's the story behind this one??

dr.bollocko · 26-11-2009 2:46pm

Dinner · 26-11-2009 2:51pm

panda100 wrote: »

Is the hubble one a pic of stars,planets,solar systems etc??
If so, that is amazing.Makes you think just how insignificant our little planet really is in the grand scheme of things.

There's about 10000 objects in that picture with most of them being entire Galaxys each of those could have billions or trillions of stars. Hubble looked at a piece of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arms length.

xzanti · 26-11-2009 2:56pm

Dinner wrote: »

There's about 10000 objects in that picture with most of them being entire Galaxys each of those could have billions or trillions of stars. Hubble looked at a piece of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arms length.

Makes a class desktop too

thanks

Guru Maith Agut · 26-11-2009 3:05pm

Not a Liverpool supporter but this certainly shook the world.

Vasco · 26-11-2009 3:25pm

http://www.wnd.com/images/20001204_xndku_shooting.jpg

Fago! · 26-11-2009 3:28pm

Here's one:

goddevil · 26-11-2009 3:36pm

The Gujarat Communal Riots in India

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

xzanti · 26-11-2009 3:37pm

Turtwig · 26-11-2009 3:38pm

panda100 wrote: »

Is the hubble one a pic of stars,planets,solar systems etc??

Galaxies actually.:)

@xzanti : That tsunami's a fake (I think).

Ross_Mahon · 26-11-2009 3:50pm

Image of a young US sergeant at the moment he learns that the body bag next to him contains the body of his friend, killed by "friendly fire"

xzanti · 26-11-2009 3:54pm

Malty_T wrote: »

Galaxies actually.:)

@xzanti : That tsunami's a fake (I think).

You get the general idea though..

artanevilla · 26-11-2009 3:54pm

xzanti wrote: »

Quite clearly a photoshop my friend.

dr.bollocko · 26-11-2009 4:01pm

I think even more so than JFK and the public fear after his assassination, at the time that Ruby shot Oswald and it was shown live people were in absolute fear of what would happen next.

PeakOutput · 26-11-2009 4:02pm

pretty much anything on this website

http://www.tomstoddart.com/

id link my favourite but you cant on that particular site

edit; just click eyewitness and watch the slideshow

smokingman · 26-11-2009 4:09pm

Going up...
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Coming down...

xzanti · 26-11-2009 4:16pm

No Holocaust pics yet??

so sad

dr.bollocko · 26-11-2009 4:16pm

American troops drag the body of a Viet Cong soldier to be buried.

My name is URL · 26-11-2009 4:21pm

Germany's Surrender from WW2 -

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Fago! · 26-11-2009 4:46pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

I think even more so than JFK and the public fear after his assassination, at the time that Ruby shot Oswald and it was shown live people were in absolute fear of what would happen next.

Look at their cool cloths.

Damn our un-fashionable times. DAMMIT! :mad:

rizzla · 26-11-2009 6:08pm

Not a photo but certainly stirred up some stuff..

citizen_p · 26-11-2009 6:11pm

citizen_p · 26-11-2009 6:19pm

Gingervitis · 26-11-2009 6:37pm

This image was censored by the American media, despite being published in the London Observer. I'll just link the image because it's a bit gruesome.

http://pixdaus.com/pics/3d1rUShP5DJXnvYqiD.jpg

Smau5 · 26-11-2009 6:44pm

US soldiers advance through the hazy ruins of Waldenburg Germany, April 1945.

Palestinian boy throwing rocks at a tank, I do believe he was shot after, no lie.

Aids patient, enough said.

It's funny how we think our lives are bad sometimes.

Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

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