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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+251Incredible how the bad outweigh the good in this list
- pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+120How often does something good change the world? More often than not it is something bad that brings everyone together.
- dallascorbin504, on 10/10/2007, -0/+109The one with the starving kid and the vulture is amazing.
- WonderEver, on 10/10/2007, -3/+84Excellent collection
- Slicebox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+75The "Tank Man" photo (the guy that stood in front of the tanks in Tienanmen Square) is incredibly moving and inspirational to me. I actually got a print from AP and have it hanging up. To put your life at risk for what you believe in, at a moments notice....
- funkytaco, on 10/10/2007, -3/+78Einstein wasn't a beatnik. He just got tired of posing for paparazzi photos that day and stuck out his tongue to ruin the shot. It of course became the most famous one because he is thought of as a genius, yet he's showing a silly side people probably didn't see much.
- jggr, on 11/04/2007, -5/+67if your boss doesn't want you looking at these pictures, then you need to find a better place to work.
- skamper, on 10/10/2007, -6/+66I rarely log in to digg stuff. This was probably my first time in weeks.
- euphemizeme, on 10/10/2007, -21/+74Where's Goatse?
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/10/2007, -2/+54Eddie Adams, who took the photo of the execution of that prisoner in Vietnam had this to say when the shooter died in 1998:
"The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him"
The backstory to that photo is that the prisoner was the head of a squad that had targeted police, and if it couldn't find the police, their families. The prisoner had been caught near the bodies of several police and their relatives, who had been bound and shot.
If you lead a squad whose job is to go around executing police and their families, you should consider yourself lucky if, when you get caught, all you get is a bullet to the head. - pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+47The pic with the vulture and the starving little boy is so ***** sad....
Cached, incase it is needed: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:yud9qGQJ1isJ:weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/images-that-changed-world.html+http://weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/images-that-changed-world.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us - cerealjynx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+50I don't care if it's resubmitted. These pictures are moving and important. Dugg.
- Thumpster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+46And Eddie Adams just about hated that photo of his. It mostly destroyed the life of Nguyen Ngoc Loan. From wiki:
"The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.
What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?" - TheLoneHoot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43She was pinned down by debris under the water. It was the result of a flood/mudflow from a nearby volcanic eruption in Colombia. They didn't have the necessary equipment and the roads were impassable for the most part. It was a very tragic moment in time. Nobody remembers the 25,000 people who died there, save those in Colombia mabye. Also a tragedy. Her story has haunted be since then (late 80s).
- terrenceisdaman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+42so why didnt they save that girl from the water?
- jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43Every person should see these pictures.... Undoubtedly an amazing collection of pictures....
- qwertylicious, on 10/10/2007, -4/+44Excuse my stupidity. How did the picture of Churchill change the world?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+45BREAKING NEWS: No deadly car accident today. Stay tuned, after the break, our report on tourists napping on the sunny beach who are not dying in a tsunami. More at 11.
- Burrito, on 10/10/2007, -3/+42You're all class.
- ludditte, on 10/10/2007, -6/+44photographer killed himself at 33 because he spent 20 minutes arranging the shot instead of helping the child.
- jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36Photographs are often all we have to base an opinion on.... I've never been to Sudan but without images such as the child starving to death whilst the vulture looks on, I wouldn't know about it nor would I believe it....
- bakkouz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+38Excellent set of photos, but I'm not sure how the Portraits of Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein changed the world. Sure the photos are well known worldwide, and made their photographers famous, but they didn't exactly "change the world".
- Saad85, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38uh, shouldn't your boss want you to be.. you know.. working? isn't everything on digg nsfw?
- jun2san, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37Digg this comment down or up, but there's no denying that this and the tubgirl picture changed the internet world.
- ONELOVE23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30This was during Tet. At the very start of the offensive Viet Cong assassins (no uniforms) specifically targeted high South Vietnamese officials and their families at their homes (not Americans). General Nguyen Ngoc had just learned that this entire family had been murdered. He took out his rage on a captured assassin.
I'm not making excuses, just the facts. This photo was used out of context by the US media to depict the South Vietnamese as brutal. I was 16 at the time and very anti war. Even more so after I was drafted 2 years later and went there. War sucks.
BTW, the Tet Offensive effectively eliminated the Viet Cong (southern revolutionaries working underground). They were hunted down and killed and lost all popular support.
Some say this was planned by the North to eliminate them as political competition. - jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29This is why we need these images... so people don't forget....
- GvnMcCld, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29You don't really know what blog spam is do you?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30It made me cry.
- tavman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27You're not serious, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28Amazing collection, and a first for digg. Every other collection of photos have been cut & pasted from a google search with out even a description. This has the pics and the context.
- Renton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24"If you do something right, people won't be sure you did anything at all."
- alwilson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24So you need a history lesson. It's not the picture, it's the content of the picture and how Churchill's posture and expression represents the allies determination that no matter what, they will never, never, never give up. Read about Churchill and the critical role he played in the war, and you will better understand the photo.
It's because of photos like this that gave the general public the determination to make personal sacrifices to win WWII. Every single person living in the US was involved in the war effort, much different than subsequent wars. If you weren't fighting in the war, you were working to supply it, or were making some kind of personal sacrifice through rationing. When the public looked at the photo, they just knew that Churchill was a strong leader and that gave the public confidence.
A bit of trivia for you. Churchill always smoked cigars. The photographer wanted a photo without the cigar but Churchill refused. Guess he didn't want to be bothered with trivial things. The photographer walked quickly over and took the cigar from his hand. When he returned to his camera, he saw Churchill glaring at him and snapped the photo. The photo represents the extreme determination Churchill had and how tough of a leader he was. - jggr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22The good comes from the sharing of these stories. Otherwise how many of us would have any idea what is going on in some parts of the world?
- funkytaco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Maybe ritchmaster is young; don't digg the guy down as it's a valid question. I dugg him up one.
The chinese wanted more rights, but the government ended up killing protesters and such. Living in communist China is probably not very fun. The people protesting wanted government and political reforms for a better life, but sadly, it did not happen. - oneoverzero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19when you haven't eaten in a while, you can't eat just any ordinary food. generally speaking, most food a photographer would have on him would actually hurt the kid more than help (vomitting = worse than eating nothing)
- jun2san, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Oh, thank god I wasn't the only one who thought that. I literally had a confused look on my face when I got down to that picture.
- diggface5000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19whether or not you agree with the list- these pictures are important. most people won't take the time to read up on history, but anyone will be moved by these images
- TheLoneHoot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20I guess images of dead men on crosses don't belong in churches too?
- Burrito, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19So? Is there some Ubuntu news that is more important?
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Too bad most people who do so end up under the treads of the machine.
- vexxefx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20What are you, 12?
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Buddy, there's a big difference between a bum on a street in the United States and a child like that.
- Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Don't count on it, this is the third time I've seen this collection on Digg, however dupes don't hurt and I'm digging this up anyway.
- sparkmonkeyz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Maybe you didn't read the descriptions, but the one of Winston Churchill has been the most reproduced picture in the world, and the one of Albert Einstein showed how someone so smart could still be considered a "beatnik" by the rest of the population, and it brings out his normality as a common human being.
- mexicanman07, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15we dont even know what his name was
- decay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15more specifically he waited for the vulture to spread its wings.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15world press photo has all of these plus more, probably some of the most depressing photos I've ever seen but hopefully will help you realize that if Starbucks messes up your coffee order you are still having a great day http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=15&Itemid=115&bandwidth=high
- jun2san, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Apparently this photographer thought the same thing later on and this haunted him until he ended up committing suicide.
"On July 27, 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Center, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. The last person to see Carter alive was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." [3]
Criticism surrounding his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph and the death of a close friend, Ken Oosterbroek, who was accidentally shot and killed in Tokoza on April 18, 1994 while covering township violence, may have contributed to Carter's suicide."
Taken from wikipedia - YellowStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Many of the 1930's NYC skyscraper workers on those beams and girders were from Newfoundland or native Americans (Mohawk).
- pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I was wondering what the ***** the photographer was doing filming this starving, dying little boy and the vulture that has called dibs on him...shouldn't the camera man be feeding that kid or something!
I would like to think as soon as he snapped that pic he set his camera down and went and helped that poor little boy....... -
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