I'm a hopeless romantic though ;)
Posted on 11/26/2006 9:53:00 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
The Most Famous Photographs
The properties to the pictures aren't posting for me, so here's the link.
Some of them yes...others, NEVER!
I'm a hopeless romantic though ;)
I figured the Iwo flag-raising and kiss in Times Square on VJ Day would be in there, but some of the others?
I love that one, too. My FIL is a Marine, and we have a photo of my husband and a few of his brothers raising a flagpole for his yard. They staged it to look like this photo for him. :)
Famous as in "well-known"
That's a good one.
But I think the one of the one-legged vet in a standing embrace of his wife
(with the crutch fallen to the wet pavement) is my personal
"homecoming" favorite.
I saw it in an "end of the Twentieth Century" collection by AP.
IIRC, the soldier died sometime in the last couple of years;
there was a notice here on FR.
Too bad that famous "summary execution" photo (ninth row, second column)
isn't printed with a "rest of the story".
The officer (a colonel IIRC) did the job when he'd just been informed that
there'd been executions/torture of South Vietnamese civilians
(whole families) during the attack (Tet?).
IIRC, the photographer eventually apologized to the officer for
the photograph and the misery that came his way because of it.
(I'm not endorsing executing bound prisoners; it's just that there's
more to the photograph than the mere image.)
Very interesting; thank you for the information.
Most of these photos were staged!
Staged or composited. Also, unless there's some limitation that's not stated, this is a very parochial view. The photo of Ruby shooting Oswald is not there. The Star Wars "photo" is a movie poster, and was painted. There are some good shots there, but there are many great photos left out, and quite a few pedestrian photos in the mix.
Parisian watching Germans march through city, 1940
first photograph of lightning, 1885, George Eastman
bttt
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