Iconic Images

[Spy Bee]

If there is a story with the image please post that too.

 

 

 

The picture above was published in The New York Times in 1993. It was taken by a South African photographer named Kevin Carter, who was covering the humanitarian crisis in Sudan in the 90's. As you can see in this symbolic image, a vulture, aware that a starving Sudanese girl is close to taking her last breath, is stalking her in order to feed its hunger. In 1994, Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for this picture. A few months later he committed suicide because of severe depression.

[lifetime fan]

Thats some fucked up shit.

 

One that immediately springs to mind is that guy walking out in front of the tank.

[Spy Bee]

One that immediately springs to mind is that guy walking out in front of the tank.

 

Protesting against the regime.

 

The first thing anyone thinks of when they hear the words 'Tiananmen Square'

[Dr.Filth]

[Hazel Motes]

[Hazel Motes]

[wiiksie]

[wiiksie]

[Baldi]

[wiiksie]

[wiiksie]

[CrouchieBoy]

[theghost]

 

I've been trying to find a poster of that but can't, anywhere.

[Vincent Vega]

 

Buddhist monk protesting against the Vietnam war.

[Spy Bee]

 

What is this?

[7dalglish]

is it the 1936 olympics?

[Spy Bee]

And the story behind it?

[7dalglish]

some pictures don't need the story do they, they often tell the story.

[CrouchieBoy]

And the story behind it?

 

36 Olympics were in Berlin and Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals.

 

Hitler wanted to use the Olympics to show off aryan supremecy

[Spy Bee]

some pictures don't need the story do they, they often tell the story.

 

Yes that's very true. For me however, that wasn't one of them.

[CrouchieBoy]

MLK Civil Rights Speech

 

[7dalglish]

 

Senna winning his first GP, 1985 Estoril, Portugal. The rest of the field couldn't deal with the wet conditions and Senna blew them away.

[hamstrung]

[7dalglish]

[DJLJ]

 

I always think of this one instead.