Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 21:08     Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
MacArthur and the emperor of Japan


Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 20:21     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:At work, someone has a phot in their office of Malcolm X and MLK Jr together laughing and smiling. Knowing what happened to them both, that picture is so haunting to me.

One of my favorite historical pictures is of Muhammad Ali practicing his boxing underwater. So beautiful. We have that hung as a poster in our child’s bedroom.



I dont know if this changes anything for you but both men were well aware of the kind of death that awaited them and both thought what they were doing was worth the sacrifice.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 20:19     Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
The Falling Man from 9/11. Such a powerful image from a tragic day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 20:16     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
The Burning Monk.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 20:12     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
At work, someone has a phot in their office of Malcolm X and MLK Jr together laughing and smiling. Knowing what happened to them both, that picture is so haunting to me.

One of my favorite historical pictures is of Muhammad Ali practicing his boxing underwater. So beautiful. We have that hung as a poster in our child’s bedroom.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 19:35     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:There are so many. The French man crying as the Nazis occupied France. The terrified naked little girl running in Vietnam.


I was wrong about the reason man was crying.

The Crying Frenchman

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/weeping-frenchman-1940/
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 18:53     Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images

"Napalm Girl"


Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 18:48     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:The photo by Kevin Carter of the starving child in Sudan with the vulture waiting nearby.


This is what I immediately thought of too. It has haunted me since the first time I ever saw it.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 18:46     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 18:29     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:Oh, and he won a Pulitzer for it, and killed himself 4 months later.


The film the “bang bang club” is decent.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 18:09     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous wrote:There are so many. The French man crying as the Nazis occupied France. The terrified naked little girl running in Vietnam.


Yes, the na-palm picture. That has stayed with me. BTW, she escaped and now lives in Canada.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 18:06     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
There are so many. The French man crying as the Nazis occupied France. The terrified naked little girl running in Vietnam.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 17:38     Subject: Re:Your favourite powerful historical images
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 13:29     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
Oh, and he won a Pulitzer for it, and killed himself 4 months later.
Anonymous
Post 12/02/2023 13:27     Subject: Your favourite powerful historical images
The photo by Kevin Carter of the starving child in Sudan with the vulture waiting nearby.