[Darren S]

Some iconic/powerful photos in the 100 Photographs that Changed the World by LIFE magazine.

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm_index.html

[Bubba]

Thank fuck I'll never (well I hope) ever have to be in a situation like this - 65 years ago yesterday.

[Bubba]

I love that picture with the sailor and the nurse!  

Here she is talking about the photo in 2006

[namnok]

Thank fuck I'll never (well I hope) ever have to be in a situation like this - 65 years ago yesterday.

the faithful reinactment from 'saving private ryan' gives people a good idea.

i dont think you'll have to go thru that as we'll more than be likely be nuked before our [politcal/military] leaders come out of their nuclear bunkers and send us out to war

[tommytwotone]

To try and lighten the mood a touch, and on a topical note - some Ashes classics:

Beefy after Headingley 1981:



Strauss taking one of the best catches (dismissing Gilly) in Ashes history:



This still brings a tear to my eye (for more reasons than one) every time I see it:

[SA Chris]

Is that D-Day landings pic one of the Robert Capa ones that survived when the films got damaged?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa

His most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life in London made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll. Only eight frames in total were recovered.

[dave]

Is that D-Day landings pic one of the Robert Capa ones that survived when the films got damaged?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa

His most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life in London made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll. Only eight frames in total were recovered.

presumably.

[SA Chris]

Funny.

I meant is that pic one of his. It might not be, there were other photographers there.

[dave]

are we talking about the famous one or something else?

the landing craft one is some other guy.

[SA Chris]

The famous one, as posted on previous page. Your link gives the answer to the original question.

[slackline]

Stefan Glowacz on Kachoong

[SA Chris]

Stefan Glowacz (naked) on Kachoong

(I know he's not, but it looks like it)

[matthew]

20yrs ago today this happened
was in tianamen square a few months back with the missus and her family.
sat there and wondered how many of the chinese natives around knew or were let to know abt what happened.

Just seen this on Bostons Big Picture. If you look in the background you can see the fella standing in front of the tank column as everyone flees. He must have had a while to think as those tanks roll in...

[tomtom]

Stefan Glowacz on Kachoong

I think that is one of the most iconic climbing pictures...
 

[Bubba]

Really, the climbing pics should have their own topic, no?

[slackline]

Really, the climbing pics should have their own topic, no?

  Well we do have the Quality Chuffing thread, but is there justification (being that its a bouldering/climbing orientated forum in general) that there might be a few amongst those that are considered "iconic (and powerful)" of those?

Or pehraps we need an iconic climbing pictures thread 

[GCW]

Back on topic.....

Vietnam



Hiroshima



Chernobyl, and teh infamous Elephant's Foot


Amundsen

[Bubba]

...but is there justification (being that its a bouldering/climbing orientated forum in general) that there might be a few amongst those that are considered "iconic (and powerful)" of those

Cheers for starting the new topic 

As powerful and iconic as some climbing images may seem to climbers, most of them don't come close in import to the rest of the pics on the topic so better to separate them I reckon.

[philo]

[namnok]

not sure if this is the original i saw years ago that struck me but there are so many.
its the look on the seal's face

(the tagline was just funny so had to post this pic instead of the others)

[slackline]

Policeman shooting Vietcon (as requested below)

Interesting to read more about General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan who's pulled the trigger here.

[namnok]

not sure if this is the original i saw years ago that struck me but there are so many.

found it

[dontfollowme]

[Sloper]

Can I be a pedantic twat (yes you can) and suggest that an iconic photograp needs to be just that and the title is for iconic and powerful not just iconic.

There are plenty of powerful photographs on the thread but few that are truly iconic, to be an iconic photo needs either to be of an icon of an age at a highly significant event, eg Dr M L King below the Lincoln memorial or of a historically significant incident / event that takes on iconic status via the zeitgeist, eg Mai Lai, perhaps the one of the miner 'inspecting the troops at orgreave.

There's millions of powerful photographs but few, I would suggest that are both iconic and powerful.

[GCW]

Can I be a pedantic twat

Iconic:  Of, relating to, or having the character of an icon.
Icon:  An image; a representation

So Iconic purely means a picture.  The newer definition has been twisted somewhat.