This is a good one. I beleive this photo raised the awareness of the world. As a result, additional political pressure was put upon the Chinese government.
If I remember right (I wasn't quite alive just yet) this photo pretty much changed America's attitude on the Vietman War.
While dramatic, I don't think those photos altered public opinion or policy. People were already outraged.
Here's some... My Lai China Lech and Solidarity start the decline of the Soviet Union Iwo Jima Spanish Civil War (by Robert Capa) Civil Rights
My business partner tells me that the images he remembers were the pictures of body bags coming home from Vietnam with the number of American dead in the top corner of the screen. Im guessing that had quite an effect. Here's a question: given these pictures...and given that war is hell. do you think America has lost all resolve for all wars, just or not? we don't seem to be able to withstand an image. i'm sure there were awful things done to Nazi prisoners of war...would we, with modern media, have pulled back a bit? would we have been less vigilant if there were unpleasant images streaming from those events, the way there are today?
I can't see that photo anymore without thinking of the Clerks cartoon TV show where they had a similar picture in the yearbook with Randal holding the gun and "Best Hall Monitor" as the caption.
Representationally the subject matter includes [from left to right]: the upper loft (or, so-called "pigeon-house") of the family home; a pear tree with a patch of sky showing through an opening in the branches; the slanting roof of the barn, with the long roof and low chimney of the bake house behind it; and, on the right, another wing of the family house. Details in the original image are very faint, due not to fading -- the heliographic process is a relatively permanent one -- but rather to Niepce's underexposure of the original plate.
mlk assassination After this photo was published along with others in a series about the dust bowl, the US government decided to provide assistance.
Don't know that one, but here's a famous shot of the Bikini Atoll "Crossroads" atomic test in '46. The same type of a-bomb used at Nagasaki was used here. The carrier Saratoga, which my father served on for awhile during WWII, is in this shot. Too bad that I can only find this small image. You can see the Sara in a larger one.
The Nam pics were huge, especially the excecution and the baby running from 'defoliation'. The protester in front of the tank, Iwo Jima, "Oh the Humanity", and others were all huge. But IMO, the two most significant pictures ever seen in this country, in terms of their effect on our history, were the Zapruder stills of JFK's assassination which led to a majority of the country disbelieving the Warren Commission's decision, and above all, the picture taken from a U2 spy plane over Cuba. That baby came pretty close to ending the world as we know it.
