Anonymous
12/02/2023 12:21
Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tank Man:
This is mine for so many different reasons. An iconic image of bravery in the face of oppression, but no one knows who Tank Man is. Soon after this photo was taken he melted back into the crowd and into obscurity. And that's overall what happened after Tiananmen Square. The photo is banned in China. There was so much hope after Tiananmen and the fall of the Berlin Wall. We didn't realize that the former would actually be the future.
Wait, Tank Man escaped? I always assumed he had been caught and disappeared by the authorities.
We don't really know. He was pulled away by onlookers.
This is a pretty good account of the incident and the photo:
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/world/tiananmen-square-tank-man-cnnphotos/
Anonymous
12/02/2023 09:25
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Photo of Gerri Santoro who died hemorrhaging from an illegal abortion:
https://images.app.goo.gl/e3VGYn9JMEPNhDny8
Anyone who thinks banning abortions make them stop happening is insane. Legal, safe abortions save women's lives
https://images.app.goo.gl/e3VGYn9JMEPNhDny8
Anyone who thinks banning abortions make them stop happening is insane. Legal, safe abortions save women's lives
Anonymous
12/02/2023 08:59
Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous
12/02/2023 06:25
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
The Best of Life is a great book of historic photos. I loved looking through it as a kid.
Anonymous
12/02/2023 01:56
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:The woman in the famous Dorothea Lange dustbowl photo was only 32. I think about that a lot.
Me too.
She looked so tired, tortured + her daughters looked like they were suffering so much internally.
Anonymous
12/02/2023 00:36
Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:Tank Man:
This is mine for so many different reasons. An iconic image of bravery in the face of oppression, but no one knows who Tank Man is. Soon after this photo was taken he melted back into the crowd and into obscurity. And that's overall what happened after Tiananmen Square. The photo is banned in China. There was so much hope after Tiananmen and the fall of the Berlin Wall. We didn't realize that the former would actually be the future.
Wait, Tank Man escaped? I always assumed he had been caught and disappeared by the authorities.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 23:48
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Bandit’s Roost and all the other photos in Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives. Have revisited this book throughout my life. I have always been fascinated by this period in history.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 23:39
Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
Tank Man:
This is mine for so many different reasons. An iconic image of bravery in the face of oppression, but no one knows who Tank Man is. Soon after this photo was taken he melted back into the crowd and into obscurity. And that's overall what happened after Tiananmen Square. The photo is banned in China. There was so much hope after Tiananmen and the fall of the Berlin Wall. We didn't realize that the former would actually be the future.
This is mine for so many different reasons. An iconic image of bravery in the face of oppression, but no one knows who Tank Man is. Soon after this photo was taken he melted back into the crowd and into obscurity. And that's overall what happened after Tiananmen Square. The photo is banned in China. There was so much hope after Tiananmen and the fall of the Berlin Wall. We didn't realize that the former would actually be the future.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 23:13
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
The little black boy looking up at Obama, who is out of the frame.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 22:54
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
The woman in the famous Dorothea Lange dustbowl photo was only 32. I think about that a lot.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 21:50
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:For me I go back to the moment Goebbels realized his photographer, Eisenstaedt was Jewish.
You can see the evil burning up this man.
They didn’t call him the Poison Dwarf for nothing.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 21:24
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
The first one I remember that happened in my lifetime: the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 9, and had just left Germany for the UK. On TV I saw people sitting on the broken wall, dancing, crying, hugging, and I'm like: "Darn it, why did we have to move! I could have been there!"
Anonymous
12/01/2023 21:19
Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
Wow what a poignant photo.
And a clear sign of antisemitism on his face.
Thx for sharing OP.
And a clear sign of antisemitism on his face.
Thx for sharing OP.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 18:55
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
For those who don’t know, Eisenstaedt’s most famous photo is of the sailor kissing a woman in Times Square on V-J Day.
Anonymous
12/01/2023 18:53
Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
For me I go back to the moment Goebbels realized his photographer, Eisenstaedt was Jewish.
You can see the evil burning up this man.
You can see the evil burning up this man.