Darth Pinche
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You might like this old thread, a bunch of amazing photos : http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=450685
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Amazing historical photos and paintings
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It's a rather large image but here is one of the classics in North American art:
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) 1875
by Thomas Eakins
I got to see this in person at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and it was awe inspiring.
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) 1875
by Thomas Eakins
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I got to see this in person at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and it was awe inspiring.
those are beautiful, loved them!
More_Badass
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What's going on there? Looks like a guy from Reservoir Dogs or something, seems very out of placeCouple I have as Wallpapers:
My guess would be middle east, maybe syria civil war?
More_Badass
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Still pretty incongruous. Camo-wearing fighters and then you have this guy in a nice suit, shades on, causally holding an AK in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Idk, reminds me of a character out of a crime thriller
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Yeah, the dude is looking baller as fuck.
Sickboy007
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Not historic, but it's probably my favourite painting. Sexiest Madonna ever, she was the mistress of King Charles VII of France.
Beerman462
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Max Payne
BearFlexington
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The Golden Gate Bridge 1936
James Mitchell Ashley - He was an abolitionist before it was cool
Sitting Bull
Buffalo Soldiers - Civil War Era
James Mitchell Ashley - He was an abolitionist before it was cool
Sitting Bull
Buffalo Soldiers - Civil War Era
I just went through all of this. It took a while but was completely worth it. Thank you.
See You Next Wednesday
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Every World leader in one spot.
My personal favorite that made me really just love going to art museams. On the internet you look at it and its meh... But in real life this painting is huge and you can just feel the weight and power of this image.
Obviously it's very cliche and popular, but it really made me appreciate art
More accurate version:
BenHargrove
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Males from the Selk'nam people (indigenous to Patagonia, in southern Chile and Argentina) dressed up as ancient spirits during a ritual, an initation rite into adulthood.
Sadly, the Selk'nam were victims of a horrifying genocide during the 19th Century by european settlers who hunted them like wild animals (or worse), spurred by various cattle companies who paid them (while the chilean government did nothing to protect the Selk'nam). Today, the Selk'nam are almost extinct - descendents are usually mestizos (selk'nam and european blood) and few in numbers. No one alive (except maybe 2 people with dubious claims) is able to speak the Selk'nam language.
A horrible tragedy that has been all but forgotten, even in our own country.
Sadly, the Selk'nam were victims of a horrifying genocide during the 19th Century by european settlers who hunted them like wild animals (or worse), spurred by various cattle companies who paid them (while the chilean government did nothing to protect the Selk'nam). Today, the Selk'nam are almost extinct - descendents are usually mestizos (selk'nam and european blood) and few in numbers. No one alive (except maybe 2 people with dubious claims) is able to speak the Selk'nam language.
A horrible tragedy that has been all but forgotten, even in our own country.
Learn2read
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I just checked this out and the most striking one to me is the Asaro Mudmen.
exmachina64
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One from home. Bomb disposal soldier in Northern Ireland walking towards a suspect device in Belfast.
For a bomb of it's size inside that van the soldier is already within it's kill radius.
Is that sign on the building real?
wanderingprostheyltite
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Miles Davis and Kenny G
Miles be like "I don't like this dude"
yup it's real
indigo-cyclops
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Buffalo NY Pan American Expo, 1901. Very impressive event, similar to the World's Columbian Expo of 1893 in Chicago.
Ingueferroque
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This is the last photo taken by a serial killer right before he killed this girl. He had before this cut her hair and forced her to wear this black dress.
Now I'm out.
Josef Goebbels when he realizes the cameraman is a jew.
You should have done a before and after:
Such an evil bastard.
You should have done a before and after:
Such an evil bastard.
you should read his diaries
it's horrible
Every World leader in one spot.
I'm guessing security was pretty tight.
what would the pandemonium have even been like if that place got bombed and killed all the world leaders at once?
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Lots of cool stuff here.
More_Badass
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Battle of Stalingrad
WeAreStarStuff
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At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger.
Escape Goat
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At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger.
It must feel so weird being in space. Its an environment our bodies never had to adapt to. It is completely hostile to our fleshy meat bag bodies.
Woah! Didn't see that one. This is the one book I may actually save up for. Can't even explain the effect those photos had on me when I first saw them.
PhantomHound
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I'm aware. But the first one is an amazing painting even if it is over dramatized.
Allez Phill
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Love this thread so much.
Once I found out the photo was staged (they had already hoisted the flag the previous day iirc) it disappointed me.I've always thought Raising a flag over the Reichstag is an incredible picture. The picture shows a Russian soldier hoisting the flag of the Soviet Union over the bombed-out German capital of Berlin. It's so sinister looking, but you can tell how glorious it must have been for the Soviet troops and citizens when they saw it. It symbolized the (near) end of an absolutely horrific war that Germany waged against the Soviet Union. The reason I find it especially sinister is because we know what's happening in the background of Berlin (and the other parts of Germany that the Red army captured) at that time, which is that tons of civilians were killed and up to 2 million women were raped. It was the ultimate payback for what the German army did to the Soviet population, and I feel like this picture perfectly captures the immensely dramatic and tragic climax to an immensely dramatic and tragic war.
This is a photo taken by a British war photographer in 1917 of the trench warfare in World War I. From the comments on reddit, I learned that those streaks of light are not artillery (which I had previously thought), but are from huge flares that the armies would shoot into the night sky so they could see enemy troop movements. Awesome picture of an absolutely dreadful time and place in history.
"Brennus and His Share of the Spoils".
Damn. Dude of dudes. lol.
Every World leader in one spot.
Random guess, Tito's funeral? Can't think of any other event off-hand that would've brought them all together like this during the Cold War (I'm guessing it was taken during the Cold War).
Never seen this before that I can recall, absolutely in line with the thread title. Amazing photo.
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