Gallery of Images that Changed the World

[Bobblehead]

Amazing stuff

http://weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com/...ged-world.html

[ricosuave]

cool!

[Fobby]

you must be a digg reader.. lol

[NuclearFart]

Very cool, should make a coffee table book of these.
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[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Fobby

you must be a digg reader.. lol

Takes one to know one.

[Mike F]

Originally Posted by NuclearFart

Very cool, should make a coffee table book of these.

Already done

[Drunk Skunk]

I consider myself to be a pretty jaded and desensitized person, but some of those images are still very moving. Thank you for posting that.

[Flash Walken]

Back story behind Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the south vietnamese police chief:

There are several accounts where the numbers change, but they all essentially say that viet cong had spent the previous day killing south vietnamese police and/or their families, and that Nguyen Ngoc Loan himself had lost family members, only to find them in a mass grave of roughly (this is the point of contention) 35 bodies, including some of his direct subbordinates.

The man being shot was apparently involved/perpetrated the plot, though his identity remains a mystery.

[FireFly]

The problem is that many of the images haven't changed the world. They may have redirected public opinion for a time, but in the grand scheme of things, humans and political leaders learned nothing. They are certainly moving images though.

[Draug]

Originally Posted by FireFly

The problem is that many of the images haven't changed the world. They may have redirected public opinion for a time, but in the grand scheme of things, humans and political leaders learned nothing. They are certainly moving images though.

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Images of children in dire situations hits me particularly hard.

Images like these make my 'lack of HD' rant seem pretty silly. They really make you think . . .

[Joborule]

Great find man.

[Neeper]

Very cool. But has the world really changed?? There's still war, stupidity, famine, murder.... seems like thing will never change.

The photo of the monk self-immolationing himself happened right outside my mom's home in Saigon (right around the corner). She was an actual eye witness to the event. She told me the monk walked into the middle of the intersection, started to pray and then doused himself in gasoline. He lit himself up and didn't even flinched. She will never forget what she saw. She told me this story years before I had even seen the picture for the first time.

[sadora]

Very cool stuff. Thanks for posting this bobblehead.

[Bobblehead]

None of these solved the issues of the world, but I have no doubt that they precipitated some change. At the very least they created awareness, and sometimes that is the toughest part of change.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Neeper

The photo of the monk self-immolationing himself happened right outside my mom's home in Saigon (right around the corner). She was an actual eye witness to the event. She told me the monk walked into the middle of the intersection, started to pray and then doused himself in gasoline. He lit himself up and didn't even flinched. She will never forget what she saw. She told me this story years before I had even seen the picture for the first time.

Wow.

[Frank the Tank]

I think the bigger picture (no pun intended) is that a photograph can instill hope or change. I mean some of those pictures are just mind-boggling to us, and without hope, what else do we have?

The picture of the vulture stalking that starving kid in Africa is just beyond comprehension.

[SeeGeeWhy]

The science pics (earthrise, child in womb) are extremely incredible even today. I am glad that there is this intrepid element of humanity - slowly exposing the wonders of the Universe that are far beyond our control or comprehension.

I don't necessarily understand the background or why a few of these were impactful, but the emotions conjured up from some of them are extremely powerful.

For instance, Buchenwald (1945) -

"George Patton's troops when they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Forty-three thousand people had been murdered there. Patton was so outraged he ordered his men to march German civilians through the camp so they could see with their own eyes what their nation had wrought."

Can you possibly imagine being a person involved with that event? Picture the average German citizen that had been turning a blind eye to what had been happening at their will - it would have been soul crushing (and rightfully so). I don't know much about Patton, but this says to me that he was a wise and just character.

[loob job]

Great pics, the one that gets me is the workers on the steel beam, how the hell can they sit there like they're in a guys living room, or even lay on the beam. It is so unbelievable to me that it seems fake, i know it's not though.

[FLAMESRULE]

Wow...those pictures are extremely moving. I cant get over the girl trapped in her own house after the flooding. A very eery, almost scary picture.

[Engine09]

Incredible stuff. Thanks for posting the link.