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Spartacus
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1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, though he was later said to have regretted the impact it had. The image became an anti-war icon. Concerning General Nguyễn and his famous photograph, Eddie Adams later wrote in Time:
“ The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths...What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?'
How do you know you wouldn't have pulled the trigger yourself?
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Eddie Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyễn and his family for the damage it did to his reputation. When General Nguyễn died, Adams praised him as a hero of a just cause:
“ The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him.[2]
“ The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths...What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?'
How do you know you wouldn't have pulled the trigger yourself?
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Eddie Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyễn and his family for the damage it did to his reputation. When General Nguyễn died, Adams praised him as a hero of a just cause:
“ The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him.[2]
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A vulture watches a starving child [1993]
The prize-winning image: A vulture watches a starving child in southern Sudan, March 1, 1993.
Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child.
Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the "Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid.
Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in 1994 soon after receiving the award.
The prize-winning image: A vulture watches a starving child in southern Sudan, March 1, 1993.
Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child.
Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the "Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid.
Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in 1994 soon after receiving the award.
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PIC TO THIS ONE IS JUST UNBELIEVEABLE
By Jeff Widener
Thích Quảng Đức [1963]
Thích Quảng Ðức was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. His act of self-immolation, which was repeated by others, was witnessed by David Halberstam, a New York Times reporter, who wrote:
" I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think.... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him."
By Jeff Widener
Thích Quảng Đức [1963]
Thích Quảng Ðức was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. His act of self-immolation, which was repeated by others, was witnessed by David Halberstam, a New York Times reporter, who wrote:
" I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think.... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him."
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churchill was a drunk
not a good man at all for other reasons
twit
not a good man at all for other reasons
twit
javaguru
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Like shipping arms on civilian liners during WWI which was against the rules of war, Lusitania. He was also the architect of Gallipoli....Spartacus said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybc0WEhUW8U
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blueta2
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Those pics speak volumes.
The one that affected me the most...The starving child with the waiting vulture and the man falling from the WTC 9/11.
Seeing ppl (especially) children starve is sickening. The fact that the photographer killed himself not long after winning an award for that pic is daunting. The reality of life is harsh!
The one that affected me the most...The starving child with the waiting vulture and the man falling from the WTC 9/11.
Seeing ppl (especially) children starve is sickening. The fact that the photographer killed himself not long after winning an award for that pic is daunting. The reality of life is harsh!
billfred
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The girl in the picture is the most moving for me. Don't know if you guys have followed the story - I read the book on the same.
The girl running naked had just been burned over her entire body by napalm. She is naked because her clothes had been burned off. Go back and look at her face again - that is pure pain.
Blue probably knows this but she survived and is living in Canada as a Canadian citz.
The girl running naked had just been burned over her entire body by napalm. She is naked because her clothes had been burned off. Go back and look at her face again - that is pure pain.
Blue probably knows this but she survived and is living in Canada as a Canadian citz.
MichaelScott
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did he try to help the child, wtf did he just stand there?blueta2 said:
MichaelScott
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i hate children suffering, it is the worst thing on the planet. when u jump out a window like the 9-11 guy do you die b4 u hit the ground or do you think u see the pavement as u hit it? just askin...
MichaelScott
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huh, that is one powerful set of images
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Gambino
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meh, if you ask me, those pics were chosen for poly reasons
are you gonna tell me that "pics that changed the world" are largely american? bs
are you gonna tell me that "pics that changed the world" are largely american? bs
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Spartacus
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such as the execution picGambino said:
the guy getting executed had killed a friend of the officer's wife and kids earlier in the tet offensive
I'd have executed him too
seaking420
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WOW, some unbeleiveable pictures
Turd Ferguson
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very moving.
calveless wonder
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that napalm attack and the vulture pic make me feel ill........
terrible what war and famine can do..........
i feel sad now
terrible what war and famine can do..........
i feel sad now
Inhibitor13
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Those pictures definatley move you when you look at them, least it did me. Makes me realize there is a lot more problems in life than your everyday b.s. we go through today and how lucky we are to have the small but yet important things we tend to forget about like food, loving family/friends, shelter ect. I think I am gonna save this site for the next time I think life is rough, unfair or whenever I think I have it the worst.
Thanx for sharing the pics.
Thanx for sharing the pics.
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