Images that changed the world

[Challenger78]

I'm not sure if there's another thread dedicated to this, but here goes:

The iconic:
http://www.megaposts.net/wp-content/files/photobrowne.jpg

The saddening
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/nilgunyalcin_childvulture.jpg

[cosmictraveler]

http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=93361

[Challenger78]

can we merge them together? , I think that's a wholly different thread though.

[wsionynw]

can we merge them together? , I think that's a wholly different thread though.

I agree, this is a different thread. Photos that changed the way people think, not just famous...

http://www.picturebay.net/img/guests/8627176221/seal_clubbing_image_2_224556181.jpg (http://www.picturebay.net/)

[S.A.M.]

How did these images change the world? What did I miss?

[wsionynw]

Not sure about the first pic but the seal clubbing pic was one of if not the first that showed the British public what happened during the Canadian seal slaughter over 40 years ago.

[S.A.M.]

Ah thanks

This is the one which I like:

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m179/pinguy1982/tiananmensquarepm2.jpg

Not sure if it changed the world.

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m179/pinguy1982/buchenwaldly8.jpg

Buchenwald. Patton ordered German civilians to march through the camp, so they could see what they had done as a nation. Thats what we need today. More civilians walking through the destruction their countries have wrought.

Which brings me to:

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/images/life/earthrise.jpg

Earthrise, 1968.

We can do many good things too.

[Challenger78]

Buchenwald. Patton ordered German civilians to march through the camp, so they could see what they had done as a nation. Thats what we need today. More civilians walking through the destruction their countries have wrought.



TV just doesn't cover it for us. It makes it all happy and nice to be in war.

[Challenger78]

Not sure about the first pic but the seal clubbing pic was one of if not the first that showed the British public what happened during the Canadian seal slaughter over 40 years ago.

Wow. And the scary thing is, the guy actually looks like a nice guy.

[Enmos]

http://www.picturebay.net/img/guests/8627176221/seal_clubbing_image_2_224556181.jpg (http://www.picturebay.net/)

I would really hurt that guy..

[Challenger78]

I would really hurt that guy..
But he's just doing his job... Employment is a derived demand from the demand for goods and services.

[codanblad]

I would really hurt that guy..

just doin his job. (edit: oops challenger beat me to it.) i think your time would be better spent explaining to him (better yet the industry) why its wrong.

i think if you're going to start hurting people, there are far better places to start.

[cosmictraveler]

Humans first step on the moon...

http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/8e66f828a58eccd8c529b5ae08c4bd7c/NASA-MOON-APOLLO.jpg



Picture of Earth as seen from the moon....


http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/earth-1.jpg

[Enmos]

But he's just doing his job... Employment is a derived demand from the demand for goods and services.

just doin his job. (edit: oops challenger beat me to it.) i think your time would be better spent explaining to him (better yet the industry) why its wrong.

i think if you're going to start hurting people, there are far better places to start.

Yea, but he picked the job himself, did he not ?
Also, if I have to explain to him why it's wrong he has bigger problems than I can help him with..

I wonder if he would mind his neighbor clubbing his little doggy to death.. :rolleyes:

Codan: Such as ?

[Challenger78]

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/images/life/earthrise.jpg

Earthrise, 1968.


The link didn't work.

[cosmictraveler]

The link didn't work.

I think my post was the same. You need to find .JPG pictures to post here.

[S.A.M.]

The link didn't work.

Thats weird, try clicking on it.

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/images/life/earthrise.jpg

[Lucysnow]

Yea, but he picked the job himself, did he not ?
Also, if I have to explain to him why it's wrong he has bigger problems than I can help him with..

I wonder if he would mind his neighbor clubbing his little doggy to death.. :rolleyes:

Dude, how else would we get the fur?:D


"The traditional way of life of many aboriginal Canadians, Alaskans, ‘Cajun’ Louisianans, Siberians, Namibians and Afghans involves hunting, fishing, trapping or herding.

Fur gives these people the possibility of maintaining and reinforcing their traditional lifestyle and cultural values. Fur also contributes to many economies in different parts of the world. Find out some facts and figures about this and the important role fur production, manufacturing or retailing plays in these communities."

That picture almost killed the trade for Greenlander inuits when they were actually using traditional means of killing the animals

[Enmos]

Dude, how else would we get the fur?:D

I don't know about you, but I don't need any fur.
I've got natural fur of my own :D

[Lucysnow]

I don't know about you, but I don't need any fur.
I've got natural fur of my own :D

Oh my god! This means you're all hairy:eek:

[Dr Mabuse]

The saddening
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/nilgunyalcin_childvulture.jpg

The photographer won the Pulitzer for that shot, but never recovered from the guilt that he did not simply help the child; in spite of the 'rules' about not touching due to parasites and disease.

He killed himself shortly after winning the Pulitzer.

[Orleander]

http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/little-rock-desegregation1.jpg
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/lynching-of-young-blacks.jpg

[codanblad]

Yea, but he picked the job himself, did he not ?
Also, if I have to explain to him why it's wrong he has bigger problems than I can help him with..

morality is not innate, what if his dad was a seal clubber/poacher etc. if i lived in a society that was ok with animal cruelty i think i'd probably be ok with it too. just look at the number of people who agree that being gay is fine but are still uncomfortable/prejudiced with them. people are sheeple.

I wonder if he would mind his neighbor clubbing his little doggy to death.. :rolleyes:

that's the difference between someone else destroying his possession and him hunting a wild (its coming right at me!) animal. so a better question would be 'would he mind his neighbour killing his (the neighbour's) livestock'. i doubt it.

Codan: Such as ?[/QUOTE]

the only thing violence will do make you feel better, but i dunno, hitler? someone fully aware of the extent of their crime, who was motivated by greed/jealousy etc. rather than someone who might not have known it was wrong.

[Challenger78]

http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/little-rock-desegregation1.jpg
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/lynching-of-young-blacks.jpg

The face of descrimination.
I like it, the photograph, that is.

[Enmos]

morality is not innate, what if his dad was a seal clubber/poacher etc. if i lived in a society that was ok with animal cruelty i think i'd probably be ok with it too. just look at the number of people who agree that being gay is fine but are still uncomfortable/prejudiced with them. people are sheeple.

that's the difference between someone else destroying his possession and him hunting a wild (its coming right at me!) animal. so a better question would be 'would he mind his neighbour killing his (the neighbour's) livestock'. i doubt it.
That's precisely what's wrong with people, they see animals as property/merchandise/useless objects. Quite sad.. and a tad psychopathic.

the only thing violence will do make you feel better, but i dunno, hitler?
Hitler is dead.
But I get your point. You say it is more appropriate to vent anger towards people that hurt other people than it is to vent anger towards people that hurt animals.
Why ?

someone fully aware of the extent of their crime, who was motivated by greed/jealousy etc. rather than someone who might not have known it was wrong.
Oh please, are you saying people that hurt animals are too dumb to realize that they inflict pain on them ? :rolleyes:

[Enmos]

Oh my god! This means you're all hairy:eek:

Or not.. :p

[cosmictraveler]

http://www.wunderkraut.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/napalm-vietnam-pulitzer-550.jpg

[Challenger78]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Nagasakibomb.jpg/502px-Nagasakibomb.jpg

Cliched. But it started the Arms Race, Cold War, and killed over 140000 people.

[Enmos]

[IMG]
Cliched. But it started the Arms Race, Cold War, and killed over 140000 people.
Ah yes, a memorable moment..

[S.A.M.]

http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/little-rock-desegregation1.jpg
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/lynching-of-young-blacks.jpg

Why didn't blacks integrate more?

[Orleander]

Why didn't blacks integrate more?

It wasn't allowed.
http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/segregated-water-fountains.jpg
but segregation hasn't ended here in the US.
http://www.decentschools.org/images/school_segregation_cartoon.gif

[S.A.M.]

I don't think its ended anywhere

[Orleander]

I don't think its ended anywhere

no. It hasn't. Its human nature to want to be better than others

[S.A.M.]

no. It hasn't. Its human nature to want to be better than others

Is that what drives them to lynch someone or confine them to ghettoes or fill prisons with them? To damage their children?

How does that make anyone "better", even relatively speaking?

[Orleander]

damage who's children?

[(Q)]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Pee_wee%27s_Playhouse.png

[(Q)]

Why didn't blacks integrate more?

Racism, Sam, a concept in which you're fully engaged. Probably why you had to ask.

[Lucysnow]

Integration. Ah yes, that's what happened after slavery and jim crow precipitated by the civil rights movement. Lets not revise history. There is a black president now how's that for successful integration.

What did the man say? Oh yeah

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone."

Hehe. Smart man.

Can't upload the picture so here's the link:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

[zhengshengming]

I'm not sure if there's another thread dedicated to this, but here goes:

The iconic:

[Lucysnow]

Dude there's no picture

[Anti-Flag]

This is apparently one of the earliest photographs taken, I'd say those changed the world the most.

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8494/800px1.jpg

EDIT: Removed.

[Lucysnow]

What the hell is it?

[Anti-Flag]

View from the Window at Le Gras - Nicéphore Niépce in 1826

[Lucysnow]

Wow, thanks. That's the first time I have ever seen this.

Cause I was first going to say that the photo was horrid but...

[cosmictraveler]

One of the first photos of an atom

http://www.csmate.colostate.edu/cltw/cohortpages/viney_old1/atom2.jpg

[Vic the Trader]

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/hitler1.jpg
This gave way to stuff like...
http://www.ghostdroppings.com/images/photodroppings/sybil2021407.jpg
this.

[Orleander]

1st x-ray. One hell of a photo and it changed medicine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Anna_Berthe_Roentgen.gif

[Challenger78]

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

The little guy: FUCK YOU!.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Tianasquare.jpg/800px-Tianasquare.jpg

[cosmictraveler]

Hubble telescopes image of the earliest known galaxies ever seen, proving that the age of the universe is about 13.5 to 14.5 billon years old.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2004-07-e-web.jpg

[Challenger78]

I wonder what he was thinking, in his last moments.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/The_Falling_Man.jpg

[codanblad]

That's precisely what's wrong with people, they see animals as property/merchandise/useless objects. Quite sad.. and a tad psychopathic.

i agree. my argument is that there's no point beating the shit out of someone who didn't know what they did was wrong. unless you think it will work as a deterrent, even then you're better of trying to educate them. violence just damages people.

Hitler is dead.
But I get your point. You say it is more appropriate to vent anger towards people that hurt other people than it is to vent anger towards people that hurt animals.
Why ?

i'm saying aim for someone who knew what they were doing was wrong and horrific. 'hitler' was used because he inflicted a lot more pain than a single seal clubber. pick a better target.

i put a lot of posts into the last animal rights thread, if you think i agree with animal cruelty you're barking up the wrong tree.

Oh please, are you saying people that hurt animals are too dumb to realize that they inflict pain on them ? :rolleyes:

no i'm saying they feel no empathy, due either to their nature or their upbringing/experiences. point being that they don't realise why inflicting pain should matter to them. but i bet more violence will help the situation. cos revenge is awesome.

[Lucysnow]

That's precisely what's wrong with people, they see animals as property/merchandise/useless objects. Quite sad.. and a tad psychopathic.

You mean like all of that time people have used horses as transportation and cattle as food or work animals? Not psychotic simply practical.

How about keeping an animal as a house pet? Do they really have a say when mommy dresses them up in a sweater, booties and sticks a ribbon in its hair? Mommy can do so because its a 'pet' and a pet is ones property. There is so much modern childish drama on this issue which is why you have pet owners now feeding their animals vegetarian canned food. Ridiculous and far more psychotic than a farmer using an animal to plow his soil.

Like you guys really really give much thought to baby seals:rolleyes:

[Enmos]

You mean like all of that time people have used horses as transportation and cattle as food or work animals? Not psychotic simply practical.

How about keeping an animal as a house pet? Do they really have a say when mommy dresses them up in a sweater, booties and sticks a ribbon in its hair? Mommy can do so because its a 'pet' and a pet is ones property. There is so much modern childish drama on this issue which is why you have pet owners now feeding their animals vegetarian canned food. Ridiculous and far more psychotic than a farmer using an animal to plow his soil.

Like you guys really really give much thought to baby seals:rolleyes:

You know what I meant.
And why should I give baby seals much thought ? Not harming them is enough.

[Lucysnow]

You know what I meant.
And why should I give baby seals much thought ? Not harming them is enough.

You lie, I know you eat blubber.

[Cellar_Door]

http://www.laprogressive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/abu-ghraib2.gif

http://www.designsojourn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/men.jpeg

http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/trodd-eddie-adams-01.jpg

[Cellar_Door]

Two iconic images from the suffragette movement:

http://www.art247.com/images/large/MIRRORPIX/WA/WA455636.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Emmeline_Pankhurst_adresses_crowd.jpg

[Challenger78]

GRAPHIC CONTENT.
Emmitt Till.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Emmit_Till_body.jpg

[Challenger78]

Or not.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Sharbat_Gula_on_National_Geographic_cover.jpg

[Cellar_Door]

Just looked up Emmett Till and, Jesus, he was fourteen when they did that to him?

As for your second picture, I've seen that a lot before in similar threads, but I've never understood why it was such an important photograph.

[Norsefire]

http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/explorers_history/Adolf_Hitler_Stars_and_Stripes_Fuehrer_Dead.jpg

[Hercules Rockefeller]

http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/dna.jpg

This is an x-ray crystallography image of DNA generated as a result of the work of Watson, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin. It helped them determine the 3D structure of DNA resulting in one the biggest revolutions in biology, if not science and society as a whole.

[Anti-Flag]

anyone old enough to remember this one?
http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/images/m/marilyn_monroe-6744.jpg