Page 1 of 1

Interesting Photography.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:10 am
by Nicktalopia
Image
1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

Image
January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

Image
1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

Image
1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

Image
1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

Image
1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

Image

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.

Image
1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.

Image
1973. A few seconds before Chile's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

Image
1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

Image
1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

Image
February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

Image
1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.

Image
1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

Image
1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

Image
1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

Image
1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

Image
1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola.

Image
2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.

Image
2002. Soldiers and villagers in Iran are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried.

Image
2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child

Re: Interesting Photography.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:03 pm
by [IN]Head-Kay
:( Some really saddening and inspiring stuff in here, love it!

viva La Revolución!

Re: Interesting Photography.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:11 pm
by maDJam
Most of these pictures are from the official "world press photo" group-

I've been buying their yearbooks from 1992-2008

http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/

it's the best of the best pictures ever taken-

Re: Interesting Photography.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:25 pm
by ziz00_909
:cry: only if we'd learn from this :(

Re: Interesting Photography.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:50 pm
by e-sam
All the above pictures have a point in common that is "HUMANS ARE THE MOST EVIL CREATURES ON THIS PLANET".

Re: Interesting Photography.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:11 pm
by TranceFusion
^ Sad truth indeed... humans are cruel... if a tournament in cruelty was organized among all species, humans would end up winning all the editions from first till 1000. Champions of evil...

Re: Interesting Photography.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:57 pm
by samer
thanks nick for this interesting spot on real life. sad but true!

Fatal: Not able to open ./cache/data_global.php