40 of the most powerful photos ever taken
 

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

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/...phs-ever-taken

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

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

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:

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

Some of those are incredible pictures.

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:

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.

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.

Hmm yes some are rather moving indeed :yep:

Thanks for sharing.

@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" ;)

Spot on!

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

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.

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