40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken

[Catty1]

This was posted on Facebook. I had to look. Now that I have, I knew I had to look.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/most-powerful-photographs-ever-taken

[Taz_Zoee]

Great, I should have looked at these BEFORE I put my make-up on for the day.

[Randi]

Wow, some historic pictures - and most of them are heartbreaking.

[Karen]

A nice collection, well done. I like that it was a mix of eras and places, and of course the ending was perfect.

[cassiesmom]

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what about Alfred Eisenstadt's photo of the nurse and sailor in Times Square in 1945

#20- is the lady in the hat clapping? She looks confused. I love the picture of the firefighter giving water to the koala. And the one of the little boy hearing makes me smile because I love his expression.

[Karen]

#20- is the lady in the hat clapping? She looks confused.

She does look like she is clapping, but uncertain whether she is supposed to or not.

I love #6, so sad but sweet.

[pomtzu]

http://imagecache5d.art.com/Crop/cropwm.jpg?img=-37-3792-R3AIF00Z&x=0&y=0&w=1000&h=1000&size=2&maxw=1472&maxh=640&q=100

what about Alfred Eisenstadt's photo of the nurse and sailor in Times Square in 1945



I agree - I would have thought this would be in the collection. Also the one of the Vietnamese girl - naked and running toward the camera, after being burned by naplom. :(

Overall, it was an interesting collection tho...........

[Scooter's Mom]

I loved the firefighter & koala. They were all thought compelling and powerful (as the title suggests), but that one called to me.

[Catty1]

The title did say "40 of the most", implying there are many many more most moving pictures to add to the list. I suspect this person is doing that.

[cassiesmom]

I found this picture on Wikipedia; I think it is the one Pomtzu meant. In the article accompanying the picture I learned some things I had not known. The photographer helped get the girl to a hospital for care for her burns. She survived and went to Cuba for college studies. She met her husband there and while they were traveling to Moscow on their honeymoon, they deplaned in Newfoundland and requested asylum in Canada. She is now a Canadian citizen. I don't know a lot about the Vietnam War, but I have recollections of seeing this picture as a child and even as a high school student, but not really understanding it (What is burning? Why are the children running? Why are the children crying? Where are the child's clothes? Why aren't the soldiers helping them? etc.).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/TrangBang.jpg
photo by Vietnamese photographer Nick Út

[Lady's Human]

The children are running and crying because their village had just been attacked by the ARVN to take it back from North Vietnamese forces. The people in the picture are victims of a blue on blue attack from the South Vietnamese AF, the pilot of the attack plane had mistaken the gaggle of people for NVA forces and attacked with napalm, which is why the child's clothes are missing, they were burned off.

[Catty1]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1208737--kim-phuc-hurt-by-napalm-in-the-vietnam-war-meets-her-saviours


http://i.thestar.com/images/f7/ad/4fcdcf9f412898e9dd1958d81b76.jpg

Kim Phuc, left, at the Fairmont Royal York with Nick Ut, the photographer who took the famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning, June 8, 1972 photo of Phuc running naked in in the wake of a napalm attack on her village during the Vietnam War.