Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Greatest Photos of All Time (Plus a Few I Would Add)

  •  Buzzfeed published a list of the 40 Most Powerful Photos of All Time.   To that list, I would add the following: 
     
    Willi Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, kneeling before a memorial to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
    Hiroshima (an Allied correspondent is in the foreground).
  • 4 Dead in Ohio. The Pulitzer Prize winning photo from the Kent State Massacre.


    Civil rights protesters being fire-hosed.


  • Rosa Parks.


  • Martin Luther King.



    Russian women searching for their men.


  • 82nd Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge. "This is as far as the bastards are going..."


    Iconic soldier of a German soldier on the Eastern Front.


  •  If any single photo captured the madness and cruelty of the Vietnam war, it was probably this one of a girl running, her back burned with napalm (you cannot see it from this angle - it is not just grief and shock that is causing her to cry but pain).



    When I think of the Holocaust, this is the picture I see.





  • A leap to freedom by a DDR soldier as the Berlin wall is being built.














  • A German soldier helping a boy escape from East Berlin. The soldier was reassigned after being caught by his supervisor. His fate was never known.

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