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- johnnn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59Am I the only one who's missing that famous "Tiananmen Square" picture?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 - ahuman7341, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41They forgot Goatse and Tubgirl.
- apzdsx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Some people digg it to tag and view later.
- miglaugh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19This web server hasn't been eating its wheaties.
- Falldog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Did you read the writers comments? They do pretty well to explain each photo and their impact. Keep in mind that not all world changing events need to be over dramatic and influential upfront.
- Steelfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15This should have definitely included Tiananmen Square:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
and Thích Quảng Đức burning himself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c - voodoom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12http://www.duggmirror.com/
- Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Or actually read it before they digg it. I open a few tabs of stories, read and if i like digg them. could be as long as an hour between me opening a site and digging it. plenty of time for it to go down.
And no goatse? :| - GLSmyth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"I think Ansel Adams is somewhat overrated."
Certainly you jest. His influence within the photographic world still reverberates today. - brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I guess a faked photo of the Loch Ness monster took the picture of the napalm attack's spot.
This list started out strong and then got pretty weak. - Jofaba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Should picture based submissions even be allowed anymore? They always stop working after like 30 diggs. Coral and Google cache's don't have the pictures. Duggmirror doesn't have the pictures. What's the use?
- fotodevil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For those of you looking at these pictures saying "yeah, there are some good ones, but nothing world-changing" need to look at these pictures in their appropriate context. All of these pictures had a tremendous impact on the world when they were first published. They may not be relevant in today's context, but each was very powerful in their own time. That is why we all know these photos today--because they have endured the test of time and are tightly woven into our social fabric.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just a note -- the picture of Che isn't the iconic picture of him looking up and to the right, that you see everywhere as a stencil. It is the one of his corpse.
- thegreat59, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love these pictures, each one has a statement and a reason. Sometimes I forget how much a simple photo can change, for example the Einstein photo (the one with his tongue sticking out) changed how the world thought of the man. Without that photo the world might have recognized Einstein only as a lonely, quiet, humorless man.
- albatross5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's so great how pictures 1-5 have no picture to show on that page... odd yes?
1) "Omaha Beach, Normandy, France" Robert Capa, 1944
http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/capa/images/photo6.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/1944_NormandyLST.jpg/330px-1944_NormandyLST.jpg
2) "Migrant Mother" Dorothea Lange, 1936
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/guide/pp9058.jpg
3) "Federal Dead on the Field of Battle of First Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania" Mathew Brady, 1863
http://www.civilwar.com/images/zoom/gallery/3g01826r.jpg
http://www.artandmedicine.com/biblio/images/brady/Brady3.jpg
4) "Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief" Eddie Adams, 1968
http://www.yale.edu/yale300/democracy/may1text/images/Vietnamshooting.jpg
http://liberalorder.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ut.jpg
5) "V-J Day, Times Square, 1945", a.k.a. "The Kiss" Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945
http://www.life.com/Life/special/kiss03.html
http://encarta.msn.com/media_1041500174_761575598_-1_1/VJ_Day%E2%80%94Times_Square.html - Maagic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Where's the "Britney-showing-her-cooter-to-the-press" pictures??
- haveacigar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5strange that it doesnt have st pauls cathedral in the blitz...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/media/pic10_st_pauls.jpg - glucoseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Surprisingly, the picture of Nick Ut's photograph of the effects of a napalm attack on Trang Bang's village did not make the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TrangBang.jpg
I think this photo had more to do with the souring of America's perception of the war than General Loan executing a VLF captive. After all, Trang Bang was an innocent child, not a VietCong fighter. It really brought the horrors of what we were doing in pursuing this was to the forefront of people's mind. I mean, how many people back in the US really knew what napalm was or what it was doing before that photo came out? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I was surprised that the poignant "Unknown Rebel" picture (the student blocking the tanks path at Tiananmen Square) was not included.
http://www.freedomtocare.org/Tiananmen.jpg - zioxide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5http://www.iwojima.com/raising/lflage2.gif
How is that not in there? - GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ah and sorry, one more note. I just realized that Stuart Franklin, from Magnum photos, was the one who took the picture that has been more widely acknowledged. It was taken from higher up, it has a wider field of view, and it doesn't have that lamppost.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/TankMan2.jpg - SchnellFowVay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, kind of.
This list is a composition of photos that essentially caused a change in the world or its perception.
THe Tiananmen Square photo, while powerful, was capturing an event already taking place (versus spurring on or galvanizing a movement).
That said, I'm sure the Tiananmen photo probably did raise awareness to China's vast civil rights violations. However, it really was not news by the time the photo was published...it was simply a powerful photograph. - mc4_a, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I'm sorry but not putting the Iwo Jima flag raising on there is a joke.
- fahrvergnuugen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Here's my fav:
http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-12/dali-atomicus.jpg
The photograph is Halsman’s homage both to the new atomic age (prompted by physicist’ then-recent announcement that all matter hangs in a constant state of suspension) and to Dalí’s surrealist masterpiece "Leda Atomica" (seen on the right, behind the cats, and unfinished at the time). It took six hours, 28 jumps, and a roomful of assistants throwing angry cats and buckets of water into the air to get the perfect exposure. - ckedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Jeezus, we need new mirrroring systems. Maybe duggmirror needs to go p2p style and start mirroring things way way before they make it to the front page, like when they only have 3 votes or so. Discard the mirrored copies if they never make it to the front page.
Series of tubes my ass, that's not the biggest problem, the biggest problem are the buckets at the end we're all trying to fit thousands of us into all at once. - neatorama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeah, the server got hosed cuz it got 5000 IPs per second. Sorry guys... I'm not sure eating more wheaties would help the server...
- albatross5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What about Quang Duc's "protest":
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c3/300px-Thich_Quang_Duc_-_Self_Immolation.jpg
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificaviet/monk.jpg
(With some pixel art just because: http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/grestall/log/images/quang_duc.jpg) - GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I completely agree with you.
"The Unknown Rebel" -- Jeff Widener, 1989
I think Ansel Adams is somewhat overrated. I think the Tiannamen photo should replace The Tetons. It isn't even an interesting photo! Plus, his photo really wasn't the "thing" that made it a national park. Anyway...
You can Google these, in case the site never comes up again
1. "Omaha Beach, Normandy, France" -- Robert Capa, 1944
2. "Migrant Mother" -- Dorothea Lange, 1936
3. "Federal Dead on the Field of Battle of First Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania" -- Mathew Brady, 1863
4. "Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief" -- Eddie Adams, 1968
5. "V-J Day, Times Square, 1945", a.k.a. "The Kiss" -- Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945
6. "Hindenburg" -- Murray Becker, 1937
7. "The Tetons - Snake River" -- Ansel Adams, 1942
8. "The Corpse of Che Guevara" -- Freddy Alborta, 1967
9. "Einstein with his Tongue Out" -- Arthur Sasse, 1951
10. "Dalí Atomicus" --Philippe Halsman, 1948
11. "Loch Ness Monster" a.k.a. "The Surgeon’s Photo" -- Ian Wetherell, 1934
12. "Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel" -- Margaret Bourke-White, 1946
13. "Le Violon d’Ingres" -- Man Ray, 1924 - illt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2how about hector peterson carrying the dead boy from the horrific apartheid school shootings:
http://www.damer.com/pictures/travels/southafrica/sow8.jpg - KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about the man at Tiannamen (sic?) square? Also the villagers running down the road while napalm burned their skin and their town (during the Vietnam War)?
- StereoMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Right you are, dunezone. And as others have pointed out, there were other photos besides these that had similar influence. But these are good. These are good. Worth digging. Definitely.
- 10lbhammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@m3mn0n
how can you say the war in iraq isn't "changing the world"? perspective let's us know what does and doesn't change the world, and we as yet have no perspective on iraq because we're still in the midst of it. - ultimate_ed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2And really, what did that image end up changing about China or the world? I agree, it was a powerful image of the time, but it ultimately failed to force the world the deal with China's human rights issues.
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Believe it or not but the great majority of the world has not seen that photo, or any of the other ones there.
This "changing the world" catch phrase is misleading, sensationalizing and highly inaccurate. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yes, I was really suprised that I didn't see that on the list, as I've always thought of that image as being remarkable...
- dunezone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wheres the picture of the little girl running with no clothes on, after her village was bombed in Vietnam(I think napalm).
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's down.
But I bet that two of them are Korda's photograph of Guevara and Nick Ut's photograph of the napalm attack on Trang Bang. - glucoseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whoops, the village is Trang Bang. The girl running down the street is Kim Phuc.
Yes, I need to read more carefully - kkDonut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1September 11th? Iwojima? Apollo 11? Wright Brothers? Hiroshima?
- ErinIsADrunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2while some those photos are definitely iconic I don't see how any of them changed the world.
- Pureeviljester, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you mean they are different things?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That doesn't count. Everyone knows NASA faked the moon landing.
/sarcasm - tacocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Soapbox:
Saying Ansel Adams only took landscapes is like saying Shakespeare only wrote pageant plays about kings and queens. Ansel Adams got tones in his photos a lot people couldn't get using a digital slr and photoshop, and he was using a darkroom.
If all you see is a landscape you are not looking. - macheat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting, but I don't think any of them changed anything.
- Woodpecker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually have the Einstein picture on a poster tacked to the wall over my computer right now. Except in mine, as it's a poster, you get the tongue in all its spotted glory...
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How old are you?
- salamanders, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Shameless self promotion (but useful for sites that get clobbered before they get cached): http://dugg.benjaminhill.info/
- ggold6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Robert Capa is responsible for (at least) one more very influential photo:
Death of a loyalist soldier, 1936. (taken in the spanish civil war) - deanoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A few things everyone should know about some of these photographs:
Migrant mother- Lange has long been criticized by purist photojournalists for posing the Migrant Mother (asking her to touch her face) and her children around her, even going as far as to ask an older sibling to step out of frame.
It's been shown that Matthew Brady lied about when and where some of his most famous images were taken.
The "surreal 'Rayographs'" that ManRay "created" are actually Photograms. What ManRay did that was genius was name a method of making images that was already as old as photography and name it after himself. - Fozefy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The iwo Jima is not there, because that is merely an american event, and not world wide. So yes it may be an American event, but definately not a worldwide one.
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