Striking Photographs of The Past Century
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01-08-2021 12:20pm#1
I was watching a TV documentary the other day about the iconic 20th Century magazine, Life, which was launched back in 1936 to document the world through the medium of the photograph.
Down through the years and the decades, many photographs have been taken and published which raised debate, made the viewer think and entered the general human narrative. Some photos even started a big debate on the issue(s) at hand and directly influenced the course of politics and history.
So AHers (the ones still with us) - what photographs have stayed with you over the years since you first saw them?
I’ll go first...
The Hindenburg airship explosion/disaster, New Jersey, USA, 1937
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Apollo 8, photo taken by astronaut Bill Anders as they came around the back of the Moon on Apollo 8, Christmas Eve 1968.
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, 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.
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6th March 1988.
3 unarmed Provisional IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.
10 days later,UDA member Michael Stone attacks the funeral and kills 3
3 days later
2 armed undercover SAS drive into the funeral procession and are mistaken for Loyalist gunman.They are executed by IRA members
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13 year old Omayra Sanchez, Columbia 1985
A volcanic eruption caused catastrophic mudslides that destroyed her village and pinned her legs under concrete debris. Lacking hydraulic equipment to lift the debris or surgical equipment to amputate her legs all the rescuers could do was stay with her for 60 hours until she died.
This photo was taken on the 3rd day of her ordeal, the blood vessels in her eyes had haemorrhaged due to trauma.
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