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[Mohonky]

There's a video & picture of a guy dancing in the streets (Sydney or Melbourne) when news broke of the end of WWII. Dunno how to find it.

 

[Angry Grimace]

The "Blue Marble"

The snapshot taken by astronauts on December 7, 1972, is likely one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence.[2] The image is one of the few to show a fully illuminated Earth, as the astronauts had the Sun behind them when they took the image. To the astronauts, Earth had the appearance of a glass marble (hence the name).

and

 

[starchild excalibur]

Yes there is. These are supposed to be historical memorable. What they are should be readily apparent.

They should be, but they're not always. It takes 2 seconds to write what's being shown - it's basic journalism.

 

[Salsa]

 

[Misanthropy]

^^^ NeoGAF = world?

 

[ripastraea]

^^^ NeoGAF = universe

 

[Brera]

My favourite, loved it as a child!

 

[Wazzim]

-removed-
Fucking American army, full of bitches and immoral scum with no respect for the constitution.

^^^ I didn't know one person = the whole army.

There are (more than) enough other cases but I don't want to depress people even further.

 

[Misanthropy]

^^^ I didn't know one person = the whole army.

 

[maxxpower]

NSFW, pretty gruesome
Fucking American army, full of bitches and immoral scum with no respect for the constitution.

Yeah dude, this isn't the creepy image thread.

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

Yes people, pleas epost descriptions. Some are obvious, ut the ones like the first ever picture taken could have been anything. It takes 2 seconds to do. Thanks

State Funeral for WInston Churchill

 

[jooey]

^^^ NeoGAF = world?

it's the entire world to far too many people here.

 

[Wazzim]

Yeah dude, this isn't the creepy image thread.

It's something that should be remembered, it's history. You can turn your face away from it but that doesn't mean it didn't occur. Just like with the other pics in this thread (man in front of tank, burning monk etc.)

 

[maxxpower]

It's something that should be remembered, it's history. You can turn your face away from it but that doesn't mean it didn't occur. Just like with the other pics in this thread (man in front of tank, burning monk etc.)

It's fine now that you posted it as a link. I just didn't want to see a big ass picture of a dead guy at 2 AM.

 

[Blablurn]

hitler was the biggest asshole the world has ever seen but he's still part of the history..

a picture from his nuremberg rally

 

[Sylver]

shit the first one beaten.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

It's something that should be remembered, it's history. You can turn your face away from it but that doesn't mean it didn't occur. Just like with the other pics in this thread (man in front of tank, burning monk etc.)

It's history (duh) but it's not one of the most memorable images in history. Please.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos displaying the "black power" salute at 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

A photograph of the famous Loch Ness Monster supposedly taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson in 1934.

 

[tafer]

http://i.imgur.com/0LeIn.jpg[IMG]
shit the first one beaten.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nZEdm.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

What's the second image?

[QUOTE=Sylver]This is a Hiroshima wall after the bomb. A man and some stairs printed like a photo.[/QUOTE]

Hehehe funny stuff, I got the idea but wasn't sure so...


And from wikipedia:
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SIofql.jpg[/URL]

Left picture : At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. Six planes of the 509th Composite Group, participated in this mission; one to carry the bomb Enola Gay, one to take scientific measurements of the blast The Great Artiste, the third to take photographs Necessary Evil the others flew approximately an hour ahead to act as weather scouts, 08/06/1945. Bad weather would disqualify a target as the scientists insisted on a visual delivery, the primary target was Hiroshima, secondary was Kokura, and tertiary was Nagasaki.

Right picture : Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

 

[Broder Salsa]

 

[Sylver]

What's the second image?

This is a Hiroshima wall after the bomb. A man and some stairs printed like a photo.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

What's the second image?

I would like to know too, it looks nuclear related.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

 

[XMonkey]

Normandy landings, specifically, Omaha Beach.

The story of how Capa lost almost all of his photos taken on this day breaks my heart as a photographer.

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Although not a photograph, that guy posting Napoleon really has me itching to post this. In Napoleon's conquest into Egypt he came across the Sphinx. It's actually rumored that he's the one who broke the nose off the Sphinx, but there is some evidence against this.

Regardless, the reason that I love this painting has nothing to do with that but rather because it makes such a prolific statement about the futility of desiring power. Here you have Napoleon, a brilliant military strategist and leader of not only France but also Italy, on a conquest to take over essentially the whole world. He travels hundreds upon hundreds of miles with his army into a territory that, to most of the European world, is only known through the descriptions and sketches in books. It would be very much like landing on the moon to anyone but sailors and nomads. Napoleon is now in a land that is culturally, geographically, historically, and ethnically totally removed from his own. However, this monument that he is standing before is one thing that no amount of time or space could make foreign to him: the desire to be omnipotent. As Napoleon ravages everything around him, I can't help but think that he came across this incredible relic of an ancient empire and realized, if only for a split second, how powerless and hopeless anyone really is against time. I can only imagine that Napoleon saw this, stopped, and saw himself as he would exist thousands of years later: another piece of history being withered away and covered by the Earth, which is totally apathetic to our silly hopes and dreams.

Without boring you further....

 

[warthog]

Some might be interested:
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space craft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers from Earth. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space.

It's halfway down the brown band on the right.

 

[ripastraea]

Amazing

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

Man, even though Nazi's suck, they have some of the most iconic displays of architecture. I'm almost scared to say it's beautiful. I like the icons, uniform, and just general history, I read and watch so much about them

*edit, will post what it is in a sec*

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Extra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

Last semester my Astronomy professor recited Saga's words with that picture as closure for a final speech to close the course. Not to my surprise he received an standing ovation.

Man, even though Nazi's suck, they have some of the most iconic displays of architecture. I'm almost scared to say it's beautiful. I like the icons, uniform, and just general history, I read and watch so much about them

I believe we owe the Nazis the clean design of modern sans-serif fonts.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

The story of how Capa lost almost all of his photos taken on this day breaks my heart as a photographer.

Wasn't it some dumb trainee?

 

[shanshan310]

American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos displaying the "black power" salute at 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

Hey man you forgot Australian Peter Norman - he's wearing the "black power" badge as well.


Also that NSFW image - please Please PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I AM CLICKING ON. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE A BIG BLUE DEAD FACE. Simply saying "Gruesome" is not nearly enough.

 

[XMonkey]

Wasn't it some dumb trainee?

Ya the lab worker at Life set the temp too high on the dryer and toasted the film emulsion. Capa supposedly never said a word about it, but I have to think he was raging on the inside.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Surprised that there is still not Vietnam kids photo.

 

[milkyjay20]

hitler was the biggest asshole the world has ever seen but he's still part of the history..

a picture from his nuremberg rally

shit the first one beaten.

these images are very compelling.

truly the army from hell.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Hey man you forgot Australian Peter Norman - he's wearing the "black power" badge as well.


Also that NSFW image - please Please PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I AM CLICKING ON. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE A BIG BLUE DEAD FACE. Simply saying "Gruesome" is not nearly enough.

It is a grayish cadaver with a female soldier smiling at his side.

Surprised that there is still not Vietnam kids photo.

someone posted the photo but removed it later.

 

[Pisuke1983]

Berlin 1961

 

[Corky]

Ya the lab worker at Life set the temp too high on the dryer and toasted the film emulsion. Capa supposedly never said a word about it, but I have to think he was raging on the inside.

Oh god

 

[shanshan310]

It is a grayish cadaver with a female soldier smiling at his side.

Its too late. I clicked on it. I meant go back and edit it so that other people know clearly what they are about to look at.

 

[Throavium]

I've seen this picture nearly everywhere, what does it symbolize?

 

[ripastraea]

I've seen this picture nearly everywhere, what does it symbolize?

She's the "Afghan Girl"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl

 

[shanshan310]

Einstein with his tongue out.

 

[G.O.O.]

Still about Hiroshima...

 

[ripastraea]

Those shorts...

 

[strafer]

sharp knees.

 

[Wazzim]

Its too late. I clicked on it. I meant go back and edit it so that other people know clearly what they are about to look at.

But that takes away the surprise

Spoiler

But seriously, "NSFW" and "Gruesome" should be enough to describe it, what did you expect? Gory My little Pony fanart?.

 

[parrotbeak]

Hey man you forgot Australian Peter Norman - he's wearing the "black power" badge as well.

Ya, can't forget him. His career suffered a lot because of it. Pretty sad how his life turned out.

Australia's Olympic authorities reprimanded him and the Australian media ostracised him; Norman was also banned for two years on his return. Despite Norman running qualifying times for the 100m five times and 200m 13 times during 1971/72, the Australian Olympic track team did not send him, or any other male sprinters, to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the first modern Olympics since 1896 where no Australian sprinters participated.

Of course, Smith and Carlos' Olympic careers were also ended and they faced the same bullshit back in the US.

 

[bolbronx]

She's the "Afghan Girl"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl

I don't see the historical significance.

Same goes for a lot of the other pictures in this thread

 

[Drkirby]

Where is the undoctored one? IIRC they airbrushed some of the loot off the guy (I think he was wearing a bunch of looted watches or something) in the original.

Looking into it, that is the undoctored one. This is the doctored one:

It is a minor change IMO.

Not only that, not only did he not loot the "watches", only one was a Watch. on the left hand was a compass, and the right was a normal watch. Having both was common for soldiers to have in the Red Army.

 

[shanshan310]

It is a minor change IMO.

Why bother??

 

[Desmond]