if you ever saw flags of our fathers, you would realize how much of a farce that photo is, it doesn't mean crap to me anymore! And for the Che Guevara, I wonder if all those stupid kids that wear it on their shirt actually know who he is and what he did, always gives me a kick cause I know about 1 in 10000 actually do.
The little African kid one is messed up. How are you going to leave the kid like that? Unbelievable. Nice goin dumbarse photographer...you win an award the kid dies. Wait...the photographer committed suicide? Holy crap!!! I probably would too if I left a kid in that condition.
agree - at some point your roll as a journalist needs to take a back seat to your roll as a human being. its like during katrina, they had all the news helicopters showing people stuck on their roofs. how many of those news people tried to help rescue them rather than just showing them for their tv audience?
click on photos to enlarge The Hubble Deep Field Credit: R. Williams, The HDF Team (STScI), NASA Explanation: Galaxies like colorful pieces of candy fill the Hubble Deep Field - one of humanity's most distant optical views of the Universe. The dimmest, some as faint as 30th magnitude (about four billion times fainter than stars visible to the unaided eye), are very distant galaxies and represent what the Universe looked like in the extreme past, perhaps less than one billion years after the Big Bang. To make the Deep Field image, astronomers selected an uncluttered area of the sky in the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Bear) and pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a single spot for 10 days accumulating and combining many separate exposures. With each additional exposure, fainter objects were revealed. The final result can be used to explore the mysteries of galaxy evolution and the infant Universe. Date: 25 Apr 2005 Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope Depicts: M16, The Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611 Copyright: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) The Eagle Nebula is a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.
and guess how many millions the tv station would be sued if one of those victims stubbed their toe because they were assisted by a non professional personnel?
The guy who took this photo also took the photo of Paris Hilton crying in the back of the squad car yesterday. That seems like a huge step down to me, but he sadly probably made a lot more money from the Paris photo than from this one from Vietnam.
could you cite a more credible source than a Hollywood movie as to why it's meaningless now? i've always wondered what happened to all those people in the photos. Tiananmen Square anyone?
As long as you know that there is a lot of human suffering going unnoticed, you don't need any photographs to make the case. There just aren't enough cameras around -- or interest -- to keep us informed of all that's going on. Photographs can be powerfully symbolic in that they reflect our worst fears as well as that indomitable human spirit that keeps us going...at times both can be captured in one photo.
Well, in the case of the World War II one we're talking about, three of the men never made it off Iwo Jima.
This one and the little girl on her way to the UN camp make me want to puke. Baylee Almon was one when she died in the blast. She would have been 13 on April 18th. This is the foundation that her mother established: http://www.protectingpeople.org/
