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Most Influential and Moving Photos of All Time...
Topic Started: Feb 3 2010, 05:38 PM (9,687 Views)
Holloway
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Basically post pictures that have affected society in good ways or bad and ones that you personally find moving.

I'll get the ball rolling...

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June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time. Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion.


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Brilliant thread mate, i'll add a few:

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I can't imagine the inner turmoil that photographer went through after taking that photo :( I can't remember why, but there was a reason why he didn't try to help the child.

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National Geographic's 'Afghan Girl'. The original photograph is on the left, and they managed to find her again (photo on the right). They tell her story which is unfortunately, sad one :(

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Kids running away from a napalm attack. If anyone else from the UK has studied (current poet laureate) Carol Ann Duffy's 'War Photographer' poem, they might recognise this one.

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Another very famous photo.

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A more 'positive' photo :P Although the woman apparently slapped him after XD

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Probably more famous for the americans :P

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And of course... one giant leap for mankind :)
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Boo @ Photobucket, Nicola. :(
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The reason why Kevin Carter never helped the child was explained in the quote underneath the photo. I cant see the majority of the images you posted btw.

edit; I can see them now :P
Edited by Holloway, Feb 3 2010, 06:58 PM.
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Just a few for now. :)
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Feb 3 2010, 08:12 PM
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That could quite possibly be one of the saddest things I have ever seen. =(
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Feb 3 2010, 06:57 PM
The reason why Kevin Carter never helped the child was explained in the quote underneath the photo. I cant see the majority of the images you posted btw.

edit; I can see them now :P
Oh yes :P I didn't bother reading the quote since I already knew what the photo was about, heh.

*whacks photobucket*
Nicola also whacks self for grabbing images off another website :r
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Jonestown cult suicide.

909 died

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Jonestown cult suicide.

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That's possibly one of the grimmest things I have ever seen.
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I thought that was kind of moving... :hehe:

Wow... that Carter guy killed himself? If he felt guilty for not helping that victim live, he could atleast have been strong enough to stay alive and help the famine... x_x
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Great thread idea!

Sorry if some of these have already been posted (I can't see half of the images in this thread :/ ).
When I think famous photos, three qucikly come to my mind: Dorthea Lange's Migrant Mother, Alfred Eisenstadt's VJ Day Kiss, and Joe Rosenthal's Raising the Flag on Iwa Jima. Basically those are the photos I grew up seeing in my history books. I actually did a mockumentary photography project a few years back based on famous photos, and those three were among the ones I spoofed/re-created (I won't post them all, but here is a link to one of them: [Link] :P ). All three of those photos have an interesting history to them too, because all three were supposedly staged...to some degree. Staging photos is kind of a gray area when it comes to documentary photography. Anyways, that is just something I have always found fascinating...that three very prominant, iconic American photos all have a speculation of being staged. It doesn't change the fact that the photos are iconic, but it does say something about the influence and power a picture really can hold. The idea of "captured" history versus history through a human's lens (a human with a bias and an agenda, etc etc) is quite a fascinating topic to me :D

Sorry I got a little off the main topic path there, but I love to dig into the history of photography....documentary photography especially. ;}
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Racing barefooted after kicking off her flip-flops, Cyndie pushes her son Derek Madsen, 10, up and down hallways in the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento on June 21, 2005, successfully distracting him during the dreaded wait before his bone marrow extraction. Doctors want to determine whether he is eligible for a blood stem cell transplant, his best hope for beating neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, which was diagnosed in November 2004.

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Derek is tearful as Cyndie tries to reason with him at the UC Davis Cancer Center on Feb. 14, 2006. She and Dr. William Hall argue that Derek should have a series of radiation treatments to shrink tumors spreading throughout his body and alleviate his pain. "Derek, you might not make it if you don't do this," Cyndie tells her son. Derek fires back: "I don't care! Take me home. I'm done, Mom. Are you listening to me? I'm done."

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Derek has a final burst of energy after days of Cyndie keeping vigil at his bedside. She helps her anguished son walk on April 26. A cancerous tumor has distended Derek's stomach so far that his pants no longer fit. Another tumor in his brain impairs his eyesight making navigation difficult inside their rental home.

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yndie French fights her emotions May 10, as she prepares to flush out Derek's catheter with saline solution before hospice nurse Sue Kirkpatrick, left, administers a sedative that will give the 11-year-old a peaceful death. "I know in my heart I've done everything I can," Cyndie says.

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Cyndie rocks her dying son as the song, "Because We Believe," plays on a cd. She sings along with Andrea Bocelli in a whispery voice. "Once in every life/There comes a time/We walk out all alone/And into the light..." From left, family friends Ashley Berger, Amy Morgan and Kelly Whysong offer comfort as Cyndie tells Derek, "It's OK, baby. I love you, little man. I love you, brave boy. I love you. I love you." Derek died soon after in his mother's arms on May 10, 2006.

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Cyndie leads Derek's casket to burial with assistance from her sons Anthony Moffe, foreground, Micah Moffe, opposite him, and Vincent Morris, who is not visible, as well as several friends. "I will forever carry your memory in my heart and remind others to give of their time, energy and support to other families like ours," Cyndie says at the funeral. Derek was buried in Mount Vernon Memorial Park in Fair Oaks, California, on May 19, 2006.


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Walking the streets streets of New York City for the first time, I saw this guy standing by a pedestrian crossing, when I was on my way to Chinatown with Rocky and Taylor - the guys I was travelling with. I poked Taylor on the shoulder and told him I'd be back in a second, and turned around. As I got closer to the guy, I realized just how interesting his face is, and was thankful that I didn't just keep walking. I introduced myself to him, told him my intentions, and he let me take the portrait. His name was Joe Maguire, and came to NYC decades ago from Ireland.

That's all I got to know about this man, before the light turned green and he shook my hand - after which he disappeared into the crowd.
A little note about this portrait.

Try for a second to cover the right side of his face with your hand, and then the left.

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Not really moving or inluential, but still pretty cool.
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