Powerful moments in history

[bkozican]

We all know the ones, These photos will be remembered as long as time

ENJOY

Albert Einstein is probably one of the most popular figures of all times. He is considered a genius because he created the Theory of Relativity

Adolf Hitler visits Paris with architect Albert Speer (left) June 23, 1940

It is said to be fake, however…. The flow of water was stopped completely over both falls on March 29th 1848 due to an ice jam in the upper river for several hours. This is the only known time to have occurred. The Falls did not actually freeze over, but the flow was stopped to the point where people actually walked out and recovered artifacts from the riverbed!

The famous photograph of Shakur and Suge Knight just moments before the shooting.

With barbed-wire in the foreground, the picture shows a father who has been detained by the Army’s 101st Airborne division. The man wears a bag over his head, and he clutches his son in his lap.

 

[bkozican]

The Oka Crisis was a land dispute between the Mohawk nation and the town of Oka, Quebec which began on March 11 1990, and lasted until September 26 1990. It resulted in three deaths, and would be the first of a number of violent conflicts between Indigenous people and the Canadian Government in the late 20th century.

After capturing and executing Che in 1967, before bury him in a secret tomb, the executioners made a group photo with the body, to demonstrate the people that EL GRAN CHE is dead. The picture actually made him a legend, his admirers said he had a forgiving look on his face and compared him with Jesus.

Omayra Sánchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days. The picture was taken shortly before she died and it caused controversy due to the photographer’s work and the Colombian government’s inaction in the midst of the tragedy, when it was published worldwide after the young girl’s death

This picture was taken only a second before the japanese socialist Party leader Asanuma was assassinated by an right wing student. Photographer Yasushi Nagao said he was only on the right place and on the right time.

Soviet Union soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov raising the flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May, 1945.

 

[bkozican]

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

This is probably the most famous picture you know. This is the picture of a student who tries to stop the tanks in Tiananmen Square standing in front of them. The tank driver didn’t crush the man with the bags but shortly after, the square filled with blood. The photo showed the Chinese that there is hope. However, China is still controlled by a communist regime.

Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

 

[Quivorir]

That is an exact copy paste from reddit/imgur, should at least give credit

 

[little graham]

Very politically motivated choice of pics.

This one should be included.

As proof that planes can simply disappear into thin air.

 

[Gough]

This is still one of the most haunting pictures I have ever seen. Taken in Southern Sudan, the photographer, Kevin Carter, eventually committed suicide. He was part of a group of sorts of South African photographers called the Bang Bang Club.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang-Bang_Club

 

[BALKAN]

 

[bkozican]

That is an exact copy paste from reddit/imgur, should at least give credit

Actually from worldfamousphotos

I dont take any credit for any of this....Dont press the like button if you feel that way
Im just posting these so everybody can see them. Some of the pics tell many different stories.

 

[Norwood1878]

 

[bkozican]

The Statue of Saddam Hussein was a symbol of his presidency and rule over Iraq. It was built in April of 2002 for his 65th birthday. On April 9, 2003 a group of Iraqi’s and US Marines gathered and brought the statue down. They hung a pre-1991 Gulf War Iraqi flag and danced in central Badghad’s Firdos Square.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

We all know the ones, These photos will be remembered as long as time

Seriously?

 

[bkozican]

Seriously?

Love him or hate him, that is an historical photo. Seconds before he is shot. To alot of people, this pic tells a thousand words.






*may or may not have exaggerated the time statement*

 

[Plugger35]

That photo has always spun me out, how the hell could you sit up there like that without a safety harness? It's no wonder there were so many deaths building skyscrapers back then.

Love him or hate him, that is an historical photo. Seconds before he is shot. To alot of people, this pic tells a thousand words.






*may or may not have exaggerated the time statement*

A bit like the photo of John Lennon giving an autograph to Mark Chapman who shot him dead a few hours later.

Must have been a really shitty autograph.

 

[Julius Seizure]

 

[Hipster Doofus]

This is still one of the most haunting pictures I have ever seen. Taken in Southern Sudan, the photographer, Kevin Carter, eventually committed suicide. He was part of a group of sorts of South African photographers called the Bang Bang Club.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang-Bang_Club

That's ****ed

 

[Hamingja]

That photo has always spun me out, how the hell could you sit up there like that without a safety harness? It's no wonder there were so many deaths building skyscrapers back then.

I have read somewhere before that that photo is not real. Still, if you wanted to see something similar today I think you could find similar safety standards employed in Qatar building the world cup stadiums. Their death rate is through the roof and it wouldn't all be heat related.

I remember watching a documentary on Stalin and he was a massive manipulator of photos back in the day. He'd have some party official executed and then he would go back and have them removed from any photos that they both appeared in. "Photoshopping" has been around a long time before modern computers.

 

[Gough]

Kent State, Neil Young wrote Ohio in response to this.

 

[bkozican]

Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.

The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.

Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

 

[katana]

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Raising of the flag in Iwo Jima (1945)


The nuclear bomb in Hiroshima

 

[I Lost My Keays]

The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4–11, 1945, during World War Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.





A firefighter giving water to an injured koala during the bushfires in 2009




Neil Armstrong takes photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the moon



Nelson Mandela freed from prison in 1990

 

[skilts]

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Raising of the flag in Iwo Jima (1945)

It has emerged that this is a picture of a reconstruction of this event, taken the day after it actually happened. Despite this, it was this image which came to mind when I saw the thread title.

 

[AtomicBlonde]

May 19, 1962 - NYC.

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and President John F. Kennedy. The only time the three of them were photographed together and the night that Monroe met RFK whom she began an affair with after JFk had ended theirs and sent his brother out to LA to try and convince Monroe to accept that it was over. Neither would live to see out the decade.

 

[AtomicBlonde]

22/11/1969, Madison Square Garden NYC.

The only time that Tina Turner and Janis Joplin shared the stage, during the Turners' opening set for The Rolling Stones gig. Jagger had a fit backstage because he knew that no matter how well they played that night, The Stones could never top this moment which sent the crowd into a frenzy. Sadly, no audio has ever surfaced of Tina and Janis from that night.

 

[The Passenger]

The most famous sporting photograph is Muhammad Ali for me