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Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:46 pm
by astasia
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/ (Warning: Many of the images could be considered offensive/disturbing.)
Including:
Tiananmen Square.
Desegregation.
Nagasaki.
Migrant Mother.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:55 pm
by Cirtur
The middle two aren't in my opinion.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:18 pm
by Lethal Interjection
Afghan girl and Napalm girl were both pretty big ones, too.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:29 pm
by astasia
Cirtur wrote:The middle two aren't in my opinion.
Why not?
Lethal Interjection wrote:Afghan girl and Napalm girl were both pretty big ones, too.
Those are both on the site.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:31 pm
by Cirtur
I don't think it is the photos that are the changing thing in the case of those two. I'm not really sure about the last one as well.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:40 pm
by astasia
Cirtur wrote:I don't think it is the photos that are the changing thing in the case of those two. I'm not really sure about the last one as well.
I think the photos are something that merely shed light on it.
The pictures stick with people and are able to change the consciousness of those who didn't witness the event themselves.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:44 pm
by Lethal Interjection
astasia wrote:Lethal Interjection wrote:Afghan girl and Napalm girl were both pretty big ones, too.
Those are both on the site.
I did browse the site. You think I would've just come up with those titles as descriptors (rather than "The one with the Vietnamese children running away from the napalm blasts in the background") just like that?
Anyways, I see where Cirtur is coming from. Often it is a group of photos, or something else that is the trigger, not so much the one photo they listed.
For example, other than perhaps the Ground Zero flag raising one, I wouldn't classify any 9/11 photo as world changing. In that case it was absolutely the video that was the influence.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:00 pm
by Oldrac the Chitinous
I'm kind of surprised the Hindenburg Picture isn't on that list. You know the one:
Also, does it bother anyone else that, in the middle of all that brutality and suffering (and humanity!), the only picture that people felt we needed to be protected from by thumbnailing was the Playboy centerfold? 'cause it bothers me.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:02 pm
by Cirtur
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
I know I do.
Earthrise
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:18 pm
by Edminster
This one always makes my hair stand on end with the understanding of what it took to get.
Earthrise
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:32 pm
by Cirtur
shopped. Everyone knows they just took a picture of the moon and then reversed it.
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:54 pm
by FengharTheNord
darmit, the dang wubsite won't load for meh!
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:45 pm
by LordRetard
LAST MISSION
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:52 pm
by smiley_cow
FengharTheNord wrote:darmit, the dang wubsite won't load for meh!
Same. It keeps telling the link is broken, but that would mean that so is the google search link. Mng
Re: Photographs that Changed the World.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:23 pm
by Edminster
Yeah, it looks like the site is down.
