40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken

[hifi]

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[nitz]

emotional

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[pdomino]

Quality find !!

[AxeD]

man, one thing that always strikes me on the tank man photo is the fact that he's holding fucking shopping bags. it shows he's just an ordinary nobody that was walking home from the grocery store, and saw the tanks, and instead of running like everyone else, just thought, "you know what? fuck this." it empowers me in a certain way that i can't explain. no one knew who this guy was, and i don't think anyone fucking cared, and he knew that. he was just a normal person, like you and me, that decided that one day he wasn't gonna tolerate all this bullshit anymore, and he didn't give a fuck who cared.

deep.

Was literally just thinking exactly the same thing.

These are pretty rough.

You can't know what's in the bags though.

I CAN SEE UP HER SKIRT!

Best photo of the lot. Even if the circumstances are just a stupid sports riot

[test_recordings]

Though these pictures are very moving in general there are many others that could have been included and many that could possibly have been included if there had been a camera.

I do not see many pictures beyond the developed nations (bar South Sudan), past and present though they may represent.

I will post but one example of one people brutally assaulted and almost removed from the Earth on the most false of pretenses, supported by complicit backing of the major perpetrating nation media:



I do not care for locking this thread or being banned for posting this potentially offensive image.

That girl was hit by napalm that was being deliberately dropped by the United States Air Force (USAF) to suppress the native rural population of Vietnam to prevent their support of an indigenous, popular, political movement (the 'Vietminh'). The USA did not need to be in the country, nor intervening in the affairs of another country.

Think of how many other potential photos that could be taken, of Palestine, of Latin America (either of the real democracies or the USA client states' version), the pollution of the Niger Delta by oil companies, the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed up to 280,000 people, Guantanamo Bay and illegitimate torture in the 'war on terror'...

The list could go on but I think but the article is only a partial representation of the whole world we live in. No offense Wub, thanks for bring it to our attention anyway.