[dave]

[namnok]

Dubya must feature.....

only this can be truely iconic abt him (should be ironic?)

[SA Chris]

I think moronic is the word, not iconic or ironic. How can you read the words "oh fuck" in someone's eyes?

[St Hubbins]

Not iconic, but powerful

[St Hubbins]

I always remember the pics of the kuwait oil fields from 1991

[tomtom]

I always remember the pics of the kuwait oil fields from 1991

Reminded me that jarhead was on ITV2 last night...

[Zods Beard]

[lagerstarfish]

This has always stuck in my mind

[duncan]

Helmets

[Drew]

Most reproduced photo ever (apparently)

[Jaspersharpe]

This has always stuck in my mind

 

[tomtom]

This has always stuck in my mind

 

She should be careful plugging her microphone into the mains like that....

[lagerstarfish]

This has always stuck in my mind

 

This photo was the first one that I was aware of that was manipulated to produce a convincing image of something that didn't actually happen ("anatomically impossible" was the phrase at the time).

[Johnny Brown]

In what way? We did something similar at yoga, allbeit not oiled up...

[andy_e]

A very recent modern icon  

Rotate that by 90 degrees to get a similar logo, colourwise...

[andy popp]

the end of the last fascist leader before berlusconi

I'm going to be there next Wed. History haunts us.

[Bubba]

Iraq

[lagerstarfish]

This has always stuck in my mind

 

This photo was the first one that I was aware of that was manipulated to produce a convincing image of something that didn't actually happen ("anatomically impossible" was the phrase at the time).

In what way? We did something similar at yoga, allbeit not oiled up...

Sorry, badly explained there. Grace said it was anatomically impossible in an interview. The photographer said simply that Grace couldn't do the arabesque coz she wasn't supple enough, but he was into creating images of the impossible or some bollox.

[Drewski Rootbitch]

This has always stuck in my mind

He forgot to shop in the shadow of her left arm....great image, but get thee to the hall of shame.

[lagerstarfish]

Since this was well before Photoshop ^tm, I think we can let him off

[Nibile]

[Nibile]

last one to escape. a powerful image, the soldier then tried to make his living in the west germay but his story is sadly not a happy ending.

[Serpico]

Rage Against the Machine, sorry Budhist Monk protesting about Vietnam war

Thic Quang Duc

Thích Quảng Đức emerged from the car along with two other monks. One placed a cushion on the road while the second opened the trunk and took out a five-gallon gasoline can. As the marchers formed a circle around him, Thích Quảng Đức calmly seated himself in the traditional Buddhist meditative lotus position on the cushion.

A cushion? Just how did that conversation go? "...and don't forget the cushion, you know how cold tarmac irritates my piles".
I'm sure I'd want to be sat comfortably before setting myself ablaze.

[butters]

National Geographic (June, 1985) 12-year-old Afghan girl - the famous photo of Steve McCurry), made them in a refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistani border. Soviet helicopters destroyed the village of young refugees, all of her family died, and before reaching the camp, the girl has done a two-way in the mountains.

Full image of the cover here.

More details of Steve McCurry and also an update on the girl in the photograph.

bluebrad

[Johnny Brown]

the girl has done a two-way in the mountains

???