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are you asking me to explain it, or why I chose it?
I can do either in great detail.
I can do either in great detail.
HappyScrappy
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not china - vietnam.
china would have been the tienniman (sp?) square protests, and a man stepped in front of a tank. it was sent around the world and if I recall a news special a few years later, that man "disappeared"
I chose the picture because Kryp2o's new avatar, everytime I see it, makes me think it is this pic.
I know that Dave Navarro (former guitarist for Jane's Addiction and brifly RCHP) has one wall of his apartment done with that image. He did it as a reference to a scene in "Stardust Memories" which I think, if I recall correctly, is a Woody Allen movie.
The image is from the Vietname war, and it is Nguyen Ngoc Loan (with gun) and a Viet Cong prisoner. Eddie Adams won the pullitzer priize for the photo, and if I recall correctly, he had the camera up and was talking to the man (Loan) and was being told that the prisoner was seen killing people and was a known Viet Cong leader, thereby was guilty.
at that point he raised the gun and the pic went down in history.
Adams (photographer) continues to back Loan's move - the pic has brought about much negative criticism, but Adams claims that the man should be seen as a hero...
that is about all I know in reference to it.
china would have been the tienniman (sp?) square protests, and a man stepped in front of a tank. it was sent around the world and if I recall a news special a few years later, that man "disappeared"
I chose the picture because Kryp2o's new avatar, everytime I see it, makes me think it is this pic.
I know that Dave Navarro (former guitarist for Jane's Addiction and brifly RCHP) has one wall of his apartment done with that image. He did it as a reference to a scene in "Stardust Memories" which I think, if I recall correctly, is a Woody Allen movie.
The image is from the Vietname war, and it is Nguyen Ngoc Loan (with gun) and a Viet Cong prisoner. Eddie Adams won the pullitzer priize for the photo, and if I recall correctly, he had the camera up and was talking to the man (Loan) and was being told that the prisoner was seen killing people and was a known Viet Cong leader, thereby was guilty.
at that point he raised the gun and the pic went down in history.
Adams (photographer) continues to back Loan's move - the pic has brought about much negative criticism, but Adams claims that the man should be seen as a hero...
that is about all I know in reference to it.
HappyScrappy
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the current aronld one - for some reason, as I read your posts, out of the corner of my eye, I see that photo that is now in my avatar.
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Also, General Loan (the executioner) was himself dispatched in a similar fashion less than a year after this picture was taken.
His wife was interviewed in a magazine last year. It was actually a very interesting story.
That said, it disturbs me to see avatars such as this. The execution of a war prisoner, regardless of which side you may have been on, should not be a source of amusement for any of us.
Happy, don't you have something more appropriate. Something fun? You know - perhaps a pic of a couple of guys engaged in some butt sex?
His wife was interviewed in a magazine last year. It was actually a very interesting story.
That said, it disturbs me to see avatars such as this. The execution of a war prisoner, regardless of which side you may have been on, should not be a source of amusement for any of us.
Happy, don't you have something more appropriate. Something fun? You know - perhaps a pic of a couple of guys engaged in some butt sex?
It was and still consider one of the turning point of the war for public support back home.
The photographer had been telling those guys for a couple days that he needed action. That he was wasting his time with them.....he needed something that would make good print.
Story goes they were sick of hearing his shit.....the captain(officer) then got sick of the photog's shit. So when they caught this suspected VC guy on the street the officer told the photographer you wanted to see action here it is. He told the photographer to get set up and he called everyone into the streets and told them this is what happens if we just suspect you of working with the VC and executed his ass.
The photographer has had major problems with it his whole life and actually wrote a paper on how journalists shouldn't effect the story they cover and the impact that they can have by just being there. They say he has never been the same since.
Never remember the names but the story stuck hard.
The American public freaked...after all we are all about law and order and he should of had a trial and what not. It was like the whole nation turn on the war all at once because of it.
The photographer had been telling those guys for a couple days that he needed action. That he was wasting his time with them.....he needed something that would make good print.
Story goes they were sick of hearing his shit.....the captain(officer) then got sick of the photog's shit. So when they caught this suspected VC guy on the street the officer told the photographer you wanted to see action here it is. He told the photographer to get set up and he called everyone into the streets and told them this is what happens if we just suspect you of working with the VC and executed his ass.
The photographer has had major problems with it his whole life and actually wrote a paper on how journalists shouldn't effect the story they cover and the impact that they can have by just being there. They say he has never been the same since.
Never remember the names but the story stuck hard.
The American public freaked...after all we are all about law and order and he should of had a trial and what not. It was like the whole nation turn on the war all at once because of it.
