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

PomBear

Ireland at night from Space

mle1324

allanb49 wrote: »

19 years as of the 24th November.

I know,I always wonder what would he be doing today

allanb49

mle1324 wrote: »

I know,I always wonder what would he be doing today

Bumming around i'm sure.

CrazyRabbit

mle1324 wrote: »

I know,I always wonder what would he be doing today

Still making amazing music.

rebel10

Remember seeing this photo in a history book. The jewish girl was a survivor of the concentration camps. This is what she drew when she was asked to draw "home".



For the week that is in it.

Don't know if this one was posted before:

Remember being in primary school the day he was released, it was a gorgeous sunny day, we were taught to sing "Mandela will be free, Mandela, Nelson Mandela...." Was a day I am proud to have lived through.

deepsouthtalla

This is the last pic of Freddie taken by his Irish Boyfriend very shocking pic IMO

mle1324

On a funnier note

Rubik.

There was a popular wall poster in the 80's, a b/w photo of a www2(or maybe the Korean war) American GI the moment he was shot by a sniper. It also had "Why?" printed on it. I've been looking for the photo, with this thread in mind, but can't find it. Anyone have any info on the photograph.

Donny5

Rubik. wrote: »

There was a popular wall poster in the 80's, a b/w photo of a www2(or maybe the Korean war) American GI the moment he was shot by a sniper. It also had "Why?" printed on it. I've been looking for the photo, with this thread in mind, but can't find it. Anyone have any info on the photograph.

Is this it?

Standard Toaster

^^^




That it?

Rubik.

Cheers Standard Toaster and Donny5, thats been bugging me for awhile now. Standard Toasters one is the original.

fontanalis

PomBear wrote: »

Ireland at night from Space
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SQ0eRaM1qsg/TOEUWR-TsGI/AAAAAAAAD9Q/XH1lkUHQeZ4/s1600/ireland-1024x679.jpg

Wow, I can see my house. great picture.

Will_H

Wow! Fantastic stuff....

Don't think this one is up here yet....Howard Carter's famous discovery....

mehfesto

1826: The first photograph ever taken.

Nicéphore Niépce captured the photo with a camera obscura focused onto a sheet of 20 × 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. Given the limited knowledge of the processes of photography at the time, a 9-and-a-half-hour exposure was required to complete this scene of his gardens from his window. As a result sunlight illuminates the buildings on both sides. This piece was the culmination of 33 years of work.

He travelled to Britain to convince the Royal Society of it's merits but they were uninterested. He eventually gave it away to his botanist/artist friend Franz Bauer. He never lived to see any credit for his work.

daycent

Following on from the above post; The first ever photo of a person:

"Boulevard du Temple", taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839, was the first-ever photograph of a person. It is an image of a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is a man in the bottom left corner, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show up in the picture.

cyrusdvirus

Standard Toaster wrote: »

^^^


http://i55.tinypic.com/mtuu5z.jpg

That it?

i recall reading somewhere that pic is actually the spanish civil war...will try to dig up the info.

Sponge Bob

American Embassy Saigon April 1975....before it found its way onto a poster at the airport roundabout this morning that is :cool:

1968

gatecrash wrote: »

i recall reading somewhere that pic is actually the spanish civil war...will try to dig up the info.

That uniform looks far too modern for the Spanish Civil War.

Perhaps your thinking of Robert Capa's famous image of The Falling Soldier.

The Falling Soldier is a famous photograph taken by Robert Capa, understood to have been taken on September 5, 1936 and long thought to depict the death of a Republican, specifically an Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) soldier during the Spanish Civil War, who was later identified as the anarchist Federico Borrell García. The full title of the photograph is Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936.

Holybejaysus

Donny5 wrote: »

Is this it?

http://pragjna.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/why.jpg

That is so ridiculously staged. He's not even wearing ammo pouches ffs..

Donny5

Holybejaysus wrote: »

That is so ridiculously staged. He's not even wearing ammo pouches ffs..

Probably. There's questions even about Capa's photo, though. I personnally believe he ripped this off:

MagicMarker

daycent wrote: »

Following on from the above post; The first ever photo of a person:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre.jpg/800px-Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre.jpg

Wow!

pablomakaveli

I'm pretty sure the camera obscura was being used long before 1826. So i'd imagine that it's not the first photograph although maybe it's the oldest known photograph.

Also i read that Capas photo is a suspected fake. Someone studied the scenery in the background of the photo and found that the scenery in the area the photo is claimed to have been taken in does'nt match up to that in the photo.

Tea_Bag

nothing major, but when it first surfaced, it was pretty much a breath taking thing, and supported by the Muslim community,
believing it to be the discovery of Aad, the gigantic race mentioned in the Quran. but it was a fake,
and actually entered into a photoshop competition in 2004.

original, being a "Giant Mastodon" skeleton (or mammoth)

cyrusdvirus

1968 wrote: »

That uniform looks far too modern for the Spanish Civil War.

Perhaps your thinking of Robert Capa's famous image of The Falling Soldier.

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that's the one.

cheers

rebel10

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the camera obscura was being used long before 1826. So i'd imagine that it's not the first photograph although maybe it's the oldest known photograph.

Also i read that Capas photo is a suspected fake. Someone studied the scenery in the background of the photo and found that the scenery in the area the photo is claimed to have been taken in does'nt match up to that in the photo.

Yes, you are right.
Camera Obscura was possibly used by artists like Vermeer, and it was suggested that Da Vinci also may have dabbled with it.
Pin hole photography was also used by the Chinese in ancient times. Though as you say, i doubt the images have survived.

pablomakaveli

rebel10 wrote: »

Yes, you are right.
Camera Obscura was possibly used by artists like Vermeer, and it was suggested that Da Vinci also may have dabbled with it.
Pin hole photography was also used by the Chinese in ancient times. Though as you say, i doubt the images have survived.

We may have a surviving one in the Shroud of Turin. One of the theories is that the image of the man was created with a camera obscura. Some suspect Da Vinci created the shroud.

L31mr0d

Not really world shaking. But there is something stirring about it.

This man took a Polaroid every day until the day he died.

There's something surreal and haunting about being able to just click through the pages and images of this mans life.

Story: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131

Photos: http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/

Beginning:


End:

L31mr0d

Shook up my world. I finally realized why the rest of the world is justified in not taking Ireland seriously.

cyrusdvirus

Earthrise, and Apollo 11 Lunar Module.

Everyone is in this picture. Apart from Michael Collins

BaZmO*

gatecrash wrote: »

Ha. Brilliant.