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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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What are those pictures depicting?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Five-People-Now-Dead-In-Hungarian-Red-Sludge-Spill-Which-Is-As-Large-As-BP-Oil-Disaster/Article/201010215754376?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15754376_Five_People_Now_Dead_In_Hungarian_Red_Sludge_Spill_Which_Is_As_Large_As_BP_Oil_Disaster_Five people have now died in a toxic sludge spill in Hungary thought to be equivalent in size to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
The figures have been recalculated by the government officials who estimate that 600,000 to 700,000 cubic metres (158 million to 184 million gallons) of sludge escaped and inundated three villages before entering the Danube on Thursday.
The BP oil spill amounted to more than 200 million gallons (757,000 cubic metres).
Greenpeace are warning the waste contains "surprisingly high" levels of arsenic and mercury, according to reports.
Charity representatives said detected arsenic concentration is twice that normally found in so-called red mud.
Analysis of water in a canal also found arsenic levels 25 times the limit for drinking water.
However, Hungary's interior minister Sandor Pinter said: "There is no risk of a biological or environmental catastrophe in the Danube river as alkalinity levels have declined."
Seriously, turn on your tele
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Sharkey 10 wrote: »Wow those pictures of the permanent shadows are crazy , but im struglling getting my head round how they became permanent . Could someone explain this to me? Is it just because the light was so bright or what?
Yeah basically the heat. More specifically thermal radiation.
The heat of the blast, estimated at 3000-4000 degrees celsius immediately below the explosion, was sufficient to melt glass bottles such as these, which were 900 meters away.
"Shadows" were left behind where objects shielded a surface from the heat.
Where this happened, the shadow is the original color of the surface, and the area outside the shadow has been turned to a different color by the intense temperatures. Because thermal radiation travels more or less in a straight line from the fireball (unless scattered) any opaque object will produce a protective shadow
By measuring the angles of the shadows it was possible to establish the exact location of the explosion.
All taken from here and here.
You have more then a nice tan if you were near any of these bombs, which many thousands were.0 -
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I'm sure there will be many more of these photo's to come, the first Chilean miner rescued after two months underground. Fantastic job they have done carrying out the rescue (so far) - Good to see a nation rally together to help people like this.0 -
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I am always amazed by civil rights-era photographs, because it is hard to imagine a time where Jim Crow-type policies just seemed normal. They are also interesting because the protesters were always very calm and dignified - the result of hours of training. You were not allowed to participate unless organizers trusted you to keep your cool and only offer passive resistance in the face of atrocious police brutality.
Police setting dogs on peaceful civil rights protester, Birmingham Alabama, 1961
Water hoses were also used
Famous shot of King; his Letter from a Birmingham Jail remains one of the most important and beautifully written justifications for civil disobedience in modern history.
During the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, young white college students joined their black counterparts in Mississippi in a voter registration drive.
Not only did they face threats and harassment, but three volunteers disappeared in the first few weeks of the campaign. Their bodies were later found inside a clay dam.
These images and this murder led to a political tipping point; the Civil Rights Act became law the next months, and the Voting Rights Act came into effect a year later. Below you can see Martin Luther King Jr. behind Lyndon Johnson as he signs the Civil Rights Act into law.
We still have a lot of problems in the US, but we have come a long way in the last 50 years.0 -
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Sorry to double-post, but this thread is awesome and I really love photography! I'm surprised I haven't seen much of Diane Arbus or W. Eugene Smith. Arbus' work was often quite startling because of her focus on people who were living on the margins of society. In particular, her photos of disabled and mentally retarded people were shocking at a time when these things were not often talked about, much less portrayed in print or the media. One of her most famous photos was "A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing NYC, 1966"
I'm surprised this one hasn't come up yet, but W. Eugene Smith's photo "Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath" was the most famous image from a series highlighting the terrible effects of industrial mercury poisoning. Here a mother is seen bathing her daughter who was born severely desabled as a result of exposure to mercury run-off from a nearby plant.
Although they are quite different, both of these photographs derive much of their emotional power because they echo traditional Christian religious icons: the Madonna and Child and the Pieta.
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Yokoi's first haircut in 28 years; but the image is also a document of his first ordinary contact with another person and a step in the transformation from solitary soldier to the role of celebrity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi
On January 24, 1972, two hunters captured a Japanese soldier who had been hiding in the jungles of Guam since the American forces took the island in 1944. His name was Shoichi Yokoi, and in the summer of 1944, he had retreated into the jungle rather than surrender, and had been there ever since. He resided in a cave he had dug from a bamboo thicket, and lived on a diet of nuts, mangos, papaya, breadfruit, snails, and rats.0 -
guinnessdrinker wrote: »
English football team gives nazi salute 1938.
Not as big impacting, but never the less interesting - in the same year, Adolf Hitler was voted as Time Magazine Man of the Year; he has received this honour alongside Barrack Obama, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon. Amazing to think that the pretty much the following year, he would more or less declare war on the world. Nobody saw it coming.
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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.0 -
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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?
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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.0 -
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.0 -
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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, 1936.0 -
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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:
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