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

Feeky Magee

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!

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ronnie3585 wrote: »

Oklahoma bombing. I will always remember seeing this picture on the front of The Star in my local shop the day after the bombing.

I remember that too

Baylee Almon was the little baby girls name - was 1yo at the time
Apparently she died right after the picture was taken. Mad to think she'd be 14 right now if she lived.
The firefighter is Chris Fields.

tech77

Feeky Magee wrote: »

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.
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Feel free to add your own!

Great thread OP.
What's the story with the Afghan girl btw- is it that her face is uncovered?

paddyland

First colour photograph from the surface of Mars...

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Feeky Magee wrote: »

Indeed.

Tokyo B-29 Raid: March 10th 1945:

Killed at least 100,000 outright, more than either atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

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

Jesus Christ, some of the pics there.

Turtwig

Toppling Saddam's Statue:

Berlin Wall:

First Stop Action Photography photo (I think):

Famous Milk Drop Coronet.

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R Budd Dwyer seconds before suicide on live tv

The Jonestown Massacre

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Feeky Magee

tech77 wrote: »

Great thread OP.
What's the story with the Afghan girl btw- is it that her face is uncovered?

No, this is common in Afghanistan. I think the success of the picture is mostly due to the eyes; piercing and beautiful. And as Wiki says:

The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and with her piercing sea-green eyes staring directly into the camera, became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide. The image itself was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine.

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paddyland wrote: »

First colour photograph from the surface of Mars...

You'll like this one so:

This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd martian day, or sol, of its mission. The image is a mosaic of images taken by the rover's navigation camera showing a broad view of the sky, and an image taken by the rover's panoramic camera of Earth. The contrast in the panoramic camera image was increased two times to make Earth easier to see. The inset shows a combination of four panoramic camera images zoomed in on Earth. The arrow points to Earth. Earth was too faint to be detected in images taken with the panoramic camera's color filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / Cornell / Texas A&M

Feeky Magee

I will bid ye good night with some images of natural beauty, end the day on a positive note.

Breaching Whale:

Kitten Friends:

Labrador:

Night all!

Queen-Mise

newbie2 wrote: »

seal clubbing.

how else did you think they got seal fur?

Ok feeky, be nice.
Probably a moot question, is there not a more humane way to kill the seals.
Clubbing seems a bit ott.

paddyland

The first shot...

paddyland

Bobby a few short years later...

OutlawPete

Smau5 wrote: »

Who do you feel the need to quote a post so long?
Boards should give you the bandwidth bill.

Also, if people want to post a large photo they find or have and want to resize to around 400 x 400 or so, then go to PicNik.com and upload the photo (no need to register).

Click 'save and share' as soon as on the screen and you will be presented with another screen like this one below ..

Just use the 'Precent" box to alter the size (ignore the dimensions as this will just distort your image if you get the proportions wrong) .. just enter 50 instead of the 100 for half, 200 to to double the size and so on and so forth.

martinr5232

A bit light hearted.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858/show/with/3955415433/

a-k-47

talbot st

parnell st

OutlawPete

Hillsborough Disaster.

The second photo here is one of the very few images I have ever seen that I find unbearable to keep looking at. Most photos you can keep studying and the bad feeling will start to diminsh. With this second photo though I start to feel panic and despair and have to look away.

I can't imagine a photograph either, that I have seen, that would have been as hard to take as this. Photographing people trapped and dying in front of you that you have no way of helping, is something I don't think I would be able to do.

R0ot

OutlawPete

Eric Cantona Kicks Rival Fan (1995)
He launched a 'kung-fu' style kick at a finto the crowd, directed at Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons, followed by a series of punches.

Funglegunk

Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. There are far, far worse ones, but this is probably the most recognisable.

Btw, one of the best threads I've ever seen on boards!

OutlawPete

In the 1994 World Cup Andres Escobar accidentally slid the ball
into his own net. The other team (the USA

) went on to win the game and Colombia went out. They only needed a draw as far as I remember.

Reports and rumours after the match the next day said he was a dead man walking, as there where big time gangsters in Columbia that had fortunes bet on the game.

10 days later, as he left some restaurant with his girlfriend three men grabbed him and shot him in the face and chest a dozen times, shouting 'goal' after every shot.

mudokon

OutlawPete wrote: »

Hillsborough Disaster.

Isnt that from the Heysel stadium?

ballsymchugh

can't get a photo of george mitchell announcing the good friday agreement, so these will have to do!!

OutlawPete

One for the ladies

In 1913 Emily Davison (Suffragette) ducked under the railings during The Epsom Derby and threw herself under a horse . The horse belonged to King George V.

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

OutlawPete

mudokon wrote: »

Isnt that from the Heysel stadium?

I suspected it was too but I got it on a site dedicated to Hillsborough. Maybe they were mistaken. There isn't much Heysel actually.

I was looking for ones of the Liverpool team pleading with the fans but couldn't find any ones of decent resolution.

I have swapped that other pic just in case anyway

Raze_them_all

Certainly shook Hitlers world anyway.

OutlawPete

In the 1932 Olympics .. Stanislawa (Stella) Walasiewicz (Walsh) .. from Poland set 11 world records. She made loads of cash and changed her name to Stella Walsh and became an american citizen.

Then in 1936 she went to the Olympics in Berlin to defend her Gold but she lost to an American called Helen Stephens.

The Polish chick flipped out and said that the american 6ft Helen Stephens must be a man cause nobody could be that much faster than her. So they made her take a sex-test, which she passed no problem.

Four years later, in 1940, Stella Walsh (the Polish chick) was in Cleveland and there was a robbery were she was shot and died. The autopsy revealed that SHE was really a man

LMAO, How in the name of God did ANYONE ever think ths bloke was a women?? Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot looked like Angelina Jolia compared to this guy

Source for all you nay sayers

.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82awa_Walasiewicz

OutlawPete

Robbie Fowler celebrating scoring a goal against Everton .. (there were media reports at the time that he was a coke head and he clearly blamed this on the Everton fans).

OutlawPete

In 1998 while warming up for a game against Celtic Gazza did the following, clearly mimicking the Orange Order, in front of the Celtic fans :rolleyes:

OutlawPete

In 1996 when Graeme Souness was manager of Galatasaray he nearly caused a riot when at the end of the game (his team had got a late winner) he got a large Galatasaray flag and stuck it in their centre circle as missiles rained down around him). He was sacked as there are apparently political undertones to planting a flag in such a way due to some historical event and he was accused of knowing about this.

Jesus Wept