Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson and children became the most famous image of the Great Depression in the United States. Its one of the classic photographs of the 20th century, and is now an icon of resiliance in the face of adversity. --- From Wikipedia
- posted on 03/02/2006
One of the most famous images in the upcoming Pulitzer exhibition at the Haggin will be the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi during World War II. Ironically, the photographer, Joe Rosenthal, had been rejected as a military photographer by the Army and Navy due to impaired eyesight. It was while serving as a combat photographer for the Associated Press that he was sent to the small Pacific island of Iwo Jima.
On February 23, 1945, Rosenthal was only part way up the mountain when the Marines raised a small American flag to celebrate the capture of Mount Suribachi, a volcano on the island’s southern end. By the time he reached the top, they had decided to substitute a larger flag that could be seen all over the island. It was this moment that Rosenthal captured.
“Out of the corner of my eye ... I had seen the men start the flag up. I swung my camera and shot the scene.”
This year (2005) marks the 60th anniversary of this photograph that captured a brief moment of glory in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Over 6,800 American troops were killed, including three of the marines in the photograph. Rosenthal’s image endures as a memorial to their sacrifice. - posted on 03/02/2006
Alfred Eisenstaedt worked as a photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1972. He is most renowned for his candid photographs, most of which he made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera. His most famous photograph is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square in 1945. (The young woman is widely accepted to have been Edith Shain, although some sources say she was Greta Friedman; the sailor was identified by the Naval War College in August 2005 as George Mendonsa, of Newport, Rhode Island, although many other men have claimed the honor.) A sculpture was made, based on the photo, by artist J. Seward Johnson. Entitled "Unconditional Surrender," it was unveiled on August 11, 2005 and will be moved to a gallery after a four-day display in Times Square.[1]
- posted on 03/02/2006
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon is a photograph taken by Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968 showing South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. The event was also captured by NBC News film cameras, but the Adams' image remains the defining image.
The photo won Adams the 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 Nguyen 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?" Adams asked.
Eddie Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyen and his family for the damage it did to his reputation. When General Nguyen died, Adams praised him as a hero of a just cause.
- Re: General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigonposted on 03/02/2006
the last one is vivid, touching...
but we have a lot of them from china, isn't it?
war and peace, peace and war. is the war fighting for peace,
or the peace preparing wars ?
freedom is not free! -- a famous U.S slogan.
- Re: V Day Kissposted on 03/02/2006
搁了今天,这大兵起码会被指控sexual assault,而这女孩则可拿到一笔美国海军军部提供的undisclosed amount of settlment而小发一笔,而这类照片当然会以恶意破坏军民关系被美国国防部加以指责,媒体会知趣的进行自我censorship…这照片所以珍贵是因为这一切在今天都不可能再重演了。 - Re: General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigonposted on 03/02/2006
史载这位南越将军最后在美国加州定居,问心无愧地尽享天年。而那越共的后代最多弄一烈属待遇,继续在越南受苦。“善有善报,恶有恶报”的信条在日趋复杂的社会里已经越来越没有意义了,因为善恶的标准,何以为“报”越来越不确定了。对大多数人,大概既不愿做那将军,也不愿做那越共,而只是愿象那记者一般,做个局外人,静观人生吧。 - Re: Iconic Imagesposted on 03/02/2006
For you feminists out there -
- Re: Rosa Parks on the Busposted on 03/02/2006
Rosa Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event. - Re: Iconic Imagesposted on 03/02/2006
This is pretty good chole! Post us some more...
chloe wrote:
For you feminists out there - - posted on 03/03/2006
Sharbat Gula (born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman of Pashtun ethnicity. Her face became famous as a cover photograph on a 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Gula was orphaned during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan. While at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984, her picture was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time.
Although her name was not known, her picture, titled "Afghan Girl," appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic magazine. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and with her piercing green eyes staring directly into the camera, became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide. The image itself was named as "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine.
- posted on 03/03/2006
March 1993 Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan with intentions of documenting the local rebel movement. However, upon arriving and witnessing the horror of the famine crises Carter began to take photographs of starving victims. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a seemingly well-fed vulture had landed nearby. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the girl:
"The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." [2]
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note on the fate of the girl. On April 2, 1994 Nancy Buirski, a foreign New York Times picture editor, phoned Carter to inform him he had won the most coveted prize for photography. Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography on May 23, 1994 at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library.
He later confided to friends that he wished he had intervened and helped the child. Journalists at the time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease. This criticism and the death of a close friend, Ken Oosterbroek, who was shot and killed in Tokoza on April 18, 1994 while covering township violence, may have contributed to Carter's tragic suicide. On July 27, 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Center, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. The last person to see Carter alive was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." [3]
- posted on 03/03/2006
关于贫困的研究表明,过于“刺激”的贫困的图象,其社会效果是很复杂的。
一方面人们期望它们能唤起社会对这些“不幸者”的意识和同情,另一方面
又在很大程度上带来了“误解”,造成了“隔膜”。明显的负效果包括,强
化“我们”和“他们”的意识鸿沟,突出不幸者的个人“弱点”,导致“不
幸审美”疲劳,诱发潜在帮助者的“个人无助”感,仅仅导致一些偶然的,
特殊事件性的帮助行为,有时候甚至会给被宣传者的个人意愿和切身利益带
来危害等。所以,越强烈、持久的宣传(mediascape)有时候其实越把“不
幸者”隔离于社会意识之外,因为把这些不幸的“我们”给stereotype了,
适得其反。
就像前面的一些例子所表明的那样,图像是非常powerful的双刃剑。即使是
所谓“真实的”,尤其是所谓“真实的”。这个真实其实往往不真实。真可
真,非常真。这种问题随着媒体的越来越发达和无所不在,更严重了。
He later confided to friends that he wished he had intervened and helped the child. Journalists at the time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease. This criticism and the death of a close friend, Ken Oosterbroek, who was shot and killed in Tokoza on April 18, 1994 while covering township violence, may have contributed to Carter's tragic suicide. On July 27, 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Center, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. The last person to see Carter alive was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." [3]
Susan wrote:
March 1993 Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan with intentions of documenting the local rebel movement. However, upon arriving and witnessing the horror of the famine crises Carter began to take photographs of starving victims. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a seemingly well-fed vulture had landed nearby. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the girl:
"The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." [2]
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note on the fate of the girl. On April 2, 1994 Nancy Buirski, a foreign New York Times picture editor, phoned Carter to inform him he had won the most coveted prize for photography. Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography on May 23, 1994 at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library.
He later confided to friends that he wished he had intervened and helped the child. Journalists at the time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease. This criticism and the death of a close friend, Ken Oosterbroek, who was shot and killed in Tokoza on April 18, 1994 while covering township violence, may have contributed to Carter's tragic suicide. On July 27, 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Center, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. The last person to see Carter alive was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." [3]
- posted on 03/03/2006
说得很好,图像越“典型”,越觉得离自己很远,贫穷、文化、宗教、地域等等之图像表现,都是如此。
图像bias wrote:
关于贫困的研究表明,过于“刺激”的贫困的图象,其社会效果是很复杂的。
一方面人们期望它们能唤起社会对这些“不幸者”的意识和同情,另一方面
又在很大程度上带来了“误解”,造成了“隔膜”。明显的负效果包括,强
化“我们”和“他们”的意识鸿沟,突出不幸者的个人“弱点”,导致“不
幸审美”疲劳,诱发潜在帮助者的“个人无助”感,仅仅导致一些偶然的,
特殊事件性的帮助行为,有时候甚至会给被宣传者的个人意愿和切身利益带
来危害等。所以,越强烈、持久的宣传(mediascape)有时候其实越把“不
幸者”隔离于社会意识之外,因为把这些不幸的“我们”给stereotype了,
适得其反。
就像前面的一些例子所表明的那样,图像是非常powerful的双刃剑。即使是
所谓“真实的”,尤其是所谓“真实的”。这个真实其实往往不真实。真可
真,非常真。这种问题随着媒体的越来越发达和无所不在,更严重了。
- Re: Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, 1932 Poster by Charles C. Ebbetsposted on 03/03/2006
Tired already? You guys got really weak nerves! Ok, some classic posters coming up, so you won't have 不幸审美疲劳.
- Re: Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, 1932 Poster by Charles C. Ebbetsposted on 03/03/2006
Enjoying it, keep posting. :)
Susan wrote:
Tired already? You guys got really weak nerves! Ok, some classic posters coming up, so you won't have 不幸审美疲劳.
- Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
- Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
I once had this poster on my wall. :)
Susan wrote:
- Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
Are you that girl or that guy? :)
QQ wrote:
I once had this poster on my wall. :) - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
I like all their expressions. vivid. :)
Susan wrote:
Are you that girl or that guy? :)
QQ wrote:
I once had this poster on my wall. :) - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
Enjoyed the pictures. Here are some I liked a lot.
PERU — A boy on the road to Cuzco, near Pisac, in the Valle Sagrado of the Urubamba River, May 1954.
PHOTO: Werner Bischof
- Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
SAO PAULO, Brazil — 1960.
PHOTO: Rene Burri
- Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
LE CAP, South Africa — 1984.
PHOTO: Ian Berry - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
VIETNAM — The 10-year-old South Vietnamese soldier in this 1968 photo was known as "little tiger" for allegedly having killed his mother and teacher, two Viet Cong members.
PHOTO: Philip Jones Griffiths - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
TEHRAN, Iran — Veiled women training in shooting on the outskirts of the city, 1986.
PHOTO: Jean Gaumy - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
ITALY — The Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1990.
PHOTO: Martin Parr - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
BURMA — The Shwe Pyi Daw Rock, a Buddhist holy site, is located 10 miles north of Kyakito and 150 miles from the capital, Rangoon.
PHOTO: Hiroji Kubota - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
NEW YORK CITY — A llama in Times Square in 1957.
PHOTO: Inge Morath
- Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
WUHAN, China — A statue of Mao Tse-tung in the large industrial center of Wuhan, Hubei province, on the Yangtze, 1971.
PHOTO: Marc Riboud - Re: American Girl in Italy 1951 by Ruth Orkinposted on 03/03/2006
TOKYO — Courtyard of the Meiji Temple blanketed in snow, 1951.
PHOTO: Werner Bischof - Re:posted on 03/04/2006
Thanks Blue River! Love this one, seems it is right out of poetry.
Blue River wrote:
TOKYO — Courtyard of the Meiji Temple blanketed in snow, 1951. - Re: Richard Avedon - Dovima with Elephants 1955:posted on 03/04/2006
Some fashion photographies...
- Re: Vietnamese Girl On Fireposted on 03/04/2006
On June 8, 1972 a South Vietnamese aircraft accidentally dropped its napalm payload on the village of Trang Bang. With her clothes on fire, 9 year old Phan Thi Kim Phuc ran out of the village with her family to be airlifted to hospital.
Photo by Nick Ut/AP - Re: Vietnam Girl On Fireposted on 03/04/2006
July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon - astronaut Buzz Aldrin planting an American flag.
- Re:posted on 03/04/2006
Susan wrote:
Thanks Blue River! Love this one, seems it is right out of poetry.
Blue River wrote:
TOKYO — Courtyard of the Meiji Temple blanketed in snow, 1951.
I also think the Meiji Temple is one of the very best by Bischof. Too bad he died so young (at age 38). - RE: Iconic Imagesposted on 01/24/2011
新版上方的图把从前的精华都翻上来了。请大家多上图片。 - posted on 01/24/2011
六十年过去了,她们还在。
其实很少有人帮得上忙......
都是但丁的错,把男人们都带坏了......
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