40 of the most powerful photos ever taken

[JU_88]

Worth a look, some of them are quite moving :)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/most-powerful-photographs-ever-taken

[u crank]

Worth a look, some of them are quite moving :)...

Yes, some of them are very moving. Thanks for sharing.:up:

[Karle94]

Damn, some of them were very powerful. My favourite is John Kennedy junior saluting his fathers coffin.

[TLAM Strike]

I see a photo from Operation Overlord made it in but why didn't the flag raising on Mount Suribachi make it in?

Also they had the photo of the Earth from Apollo 8 but not Aldrin saluting the flag from Apollo 11. :hmmm:

[Platapus]

Glad I was alone in my study so no one saw me bawling.

Some of those are incredible pictures.

[sharkbit]

The one that got me was the picture of the marine presenting the flag to the 8 yo son of Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, killed on his second tour in Iraq. :cry:

[TarJak]

I may be old and cynical, but none of them really moved me much at all. I've seen some much more powerful photographs of events and even sunrises and sunsets that moved me more.

I don't understand how the Vietnamese monks self immolating were excluded or the image of the young Vietnamese girl running down the road with major burns to her body after her village was napalmed were excluded as these were far more powerful than say, the soldier sweating under his beret.

How about images from Belsen or Auschwitz?

Just another dumb list showing another sign that news should really be called views.

[Tribesman]

I see a photo from Operation Overlord made it in but why didn't the flag raising on Mount Suribachi make it in?

Also they had the photo of the Earth from Apollo 8 but not Aldrin saluting the flag from Apollo 11.
Maybe because people without a flag fixation wouldn't find them powerful photos.
If you take the two pictures with the stars and stripes the power of the photo is in the faces of the people, in the one of the union flags it is in the young lady that conveys the reality in the image.

[BossMark]

Hmm yes some are rather moving indeed :yep:

[Schroeder]

Thanks for sharing.

[JU_88]

@Tarjak and Tribesmen, yes admitadly the selection in biast, there are more powerful photos out there that we know of, Im guessing they wanted to go for powerful without the 'shocking' and 'depressing' so burning monks and children have obviously been excluded.

To be fair to the author though, the title is "40 of the most" not "The top 40 most" ;)

[Kongo Otto]

I may be old and cynical, but none of them really moved me much at all. I've seen some much more powerful photographs of events and even sunrises and sunsets that moved me more.

I don't understand how the Vietnamese monks self immolating were excluded or the image of the young Vietnamese girl running down the road with major burns to her body after her village was napalmed were excluded as these were far more powerful than say, the soldier sweating under his beret.

How about images from Belsen or Auschwitz?

Just another dumb list showing another sign that news should really be called views.

Spot on!

[Takeda Shingen]

I found the one with the dog sitting by the grave of his owner particularly moving.

[Platapus]

In any list of photographs that contain less than 100% of all the photographs ever taken, will naturally have photographs missing that some would like, and include photographs that some don't like.

Whether a list includes your personal favourite photographs does not diminish the value of any list.

I am sure I am not the only one who could quickly think of 50-100 historical photographs that are good and not included on this list.

It would be impossible to create a list of only 40 photographs that everyone would agree on.

[u crank]

Number 33. Young woman beside hearse made this old boy weep.

[TarJak]

@Tarjak and Tribesmen, yes admitadly the selection in biast, there are more powerful photos out there that we know of, Im guessing they wanted to go for powerful without the 'shocking' and 'depressing' so burning monks and children have obviously been excluded.

To be fair to the author though, the title is "40 of the most" not "The top 40 most" ;)

Fair enough Francis. I just get a bit cynical when so called "news" outlets drop out of reporting and into opinion forming. This is probably one of the more harmless examples.

[Rockstar]

Well if im gonna get choked up over a photo. Then this should be included too to make it 41 most powerful photos

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MSk7Te54iaw/SpfaODGZcOI/AAAAAAAAAj8/8l5h7av90x4/s400/sp1.jpg

[JU_88]

Well if im gonna get choked up over a photo. Then this should be included too to make it 41 most powerful photos

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MSk7Te54iaw/SpfaODGZcOI/AAAAAAAAAj8/8l5h7av90x4/s400/sp1.jpg

Thats from South Park isnt it? or am i getting mixed up with the one of Tom Cruise? :D

[TFatseas]

I'm sorry, but many of those pictures just don't belong.

[JU_88]

No need to apologise, I didn't choose them.:salute:

[Osmium Steele]

Also they had the photo of the Earth from Apollo 8 but not Aldrin saluting the flag from Apollo 11. :hmmm:

And they almost never show that photo as taken. The horizon should be vertical.

[gimpy117]

Well if im gonna get choked up over a photo. Then this should be included too to make it 41 most powerful photos

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MSk7Te54iaw/SpfaODGZcOI/AAAAAAAAAj8/8l5h7av90x4/s400/sp1.jpg

whaleziak no!

[HunterICX]

I found the one with the dog sitting by the grave of his owner particularly moving.

Aye,
can't have a men's friend to be more loyal then that.
also found the one where the dog is reunited with the owner in Japan 2011 also quite moving.

HunterICX

[Kongo Otto]

I see a photo from Operation Overlord made it in but why didn't the flag raising on Mount Suribachi make it in?


Overlord is known at the whole planet, but how many people would now Mount Suribachi? Maybe some would now the Names of the Major battles of the PTO, but i'm not even sure about that.
Same goes for the Korean war, ask some of your friends about battles like Triangle Hill, Bowling Alley, Heartbreak Ridge (be sure most will only know a Clint Eastwood movie) Operation Killer or Outpost Harry.
Most of them maybe know the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir... i'm sure you get the point.