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Images That Changed The World?! [AWESOME PICS]

weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com — These images are NOT intended to offend anyone; We need to learn from past events other wise we will keep repeating history. There are so many past events that we must never forget about.....

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  • pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -68/+26Every picture has a description.....the only thing that sucks, it's not in date order....
    • bleep1912, on 10/10/2007, -22/+6Bwhahaha dugg down on your own Post, Lozer!!! XD
      • Quakee, on 10/10/2007, -10/+8you spell loser with a Z? Who the ***** is the loser in this situation?
    • Quakee, on 10/10/2007, -10/+7I don't understand why this comment would get dugg down...
      • Kedyn, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Simply because people can.
      • persept, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Maybe because they don't realise that this poster is the same person who submitted the article.
  • menwuur, on 10/10/2007, -3/+252Incredible how the bad outweigh the good in this list
    • pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+120How often does something good change the world? More often than not it is something bad that brings everyone together.
    • jggr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22The good comes from the sharing of these stories. Otherwise how many of us would have any idea what is going on in some parts of the world?
    • ufia, on 10/10/2007, -6/+45BREAKING NEWS: No deadly car accident today. Stay tuned, after the break, our report on tourists napping on the sunny beach who are not dying in a tsunami. More at 11.
    • Renton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24"If you do something right, people won't be sure you did anything at all."
      • Prathik89, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3like Tiananmen Square, not many youths in China know it all.
        Shame really.
      • seventoes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1One of the many good quotes from Futurama, such as
        "In our time we had a way to move things long distances without hovering!" "Impossible!" "Yeah, it was called... the... the wheel!"
    • newvideo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It's not that the bad outweighs the good - it's that there's a public notification system to bring news of the bad that is robust and ongoing. 911 and other international emergency numbers elevate and honor the need for help. There's no equivelent system for elevating and honoring the myriad acts of generosity and kindness that happen planet wide.

      Bad news gets better press, because that's how the system needs to work. Period.
    • sdlavergne, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The bad may outweigh the good, on this list. Keep in ming this is just one person's opinion of what photos changed the world.
    • iNunchuk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7A quote from Star Trek TNG if I may:
      "Sadly, Terrorism is often the means for vast political change"
      Captain Picard, I couldn't agree more.
    • CkMaverick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It takes something shockingly bad to remind us of what is good unfortunately.
      • cyberwiz01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Do you have to be extremely sick to appreciate being healthy?
    • pinguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0"Incredible how the bad outweigh the good"

      yeah tell me about it I know I am going to get digg down because every comment on here saying that this has been copied is being digg down.

      This person is getting away with stealing intellectual
      property, every post on that site has been copied from someone else, and they are making money from it from the ads, is that fair? they don't even host there own images they hot link them from the site they copied it from.

      This post has had more diggs then the one it got copied from.
      If you people haven't seen this post before you shouldn't be digging this one you should be digging the original.

      Whats wrong with Digg its not very ethical.
      http://www.digg.com/world_news/Images_That_Changed_The_World_2
  • WonderEver, on 10/10/2007, -3/+84Excellent collection
  • Error601, on 10/10/2007, -57/+5If you base an opinion on a photograph, you're not really thinking.
    • jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36Photographs are often all we have to base an opinion on.... I've never been to Sudan but without images such as the child starving to death whilst the vulture looks on, I wouldn't know about it nor would I believe it....
      • KirbyMorph, on 10/10/2007, -13/+0Bums die in the street every day in America, yet you dont care or do anything about it. Why does a photo from a place you never been stir such emotion when you snub your nose at your fellow man in the streets next to you on your way to work each day? If I post a pic of one dying next to a trash bin, will it change your world like a photo from a third world country?
        • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Buddy, there's a big difference between a bum on a street in the United States and a child like that.
        • AxeSwinger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I would hope it would change peoples perception of poverty in America.
    • TheWorm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I believe anyone with a heart can share a common opinion on many of these photographs.
  • monkeycatDx, on 10/10/2007, -52/+5NSFW...
    • jggr, on 11/04/2007, -5/+68if your boss doesn't want you looking at these pictures, then you need to find a better place to work.
      • eschompthis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8uhh no your boss does want you to see them, just not at ***** work!
      • db113456, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How about posting the pictures at work, why would that be wrong ?
        and even more dangerous and threatening,
        How about discussing them with your colleagues, and talking about what they represent, and why they happened ?
    • scojerroc, on 10/10/2007, -21/+5No, he doesn't. Pictures of dead bodies do not belong on a workplace computer. this is NSFW.
      • TheLoneHoot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20I guess images of dead men on crosses don't belong in churches too?
        • thatsmyaibo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I like where your mind is with that statement but I don't believe it to be relevant. People go to church to learn about the dead men on crosses people don't go to work to be looking at historical images.
      • drgmdp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7everything non-work related doesn't belong to work
        • rcomegys, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Man, I hope you guys never make your way into management.
    • Saad85, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38uh, shouldn't your boss want you to be.. you know.. working? isn't everything on digg nsfw?
  • skamper, on 10/10/2007, -6/+66I rarely log in to digg stuff. This was probably my first time in weeks.
  • dallascorbin504, on 10/10/2007, -0/+109The one with the starving kid and the vulture is amazing.
    • ludditte, on 10/10/2007, -6/+44photographer killed himself at 33 because he spent 20 minutes arranging the shot instead of helping the child.
      • pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I was wondering what the ***** the photographer was doing filming this starving, dying little boy and the vulture that has called dibs on him...shouldn't the camera man be feeding that kid or something!

        I would like to think as soon as he snapped that pic he set his camera down and went and helped that poor little boy.......
        • oneoverzero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19when you haven't eaten in a while, you can't eat just any ordinary food. generally speaking, most food a photographer would have on him would actually hurt the kid more than help (vomitting = worse than eating nothing)
        • DruSam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9oneoverzero is right.

          If you ever read about the Allies who passed out food to holocaust survivors, some of the survivors ended up choking and dieing on the food they so desperately needed. So yeah, it's not as simple as just handing out food.
        • drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12As ***** as it sounds, you can't save them all. That one child represents thousands. if memory serves, the photographers were told not to touch any of the indigenous peoples for fear of some high contagious disease. It can be heartbreaking, but sometimes all you can do is watch.
          • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2At that point, dying from a disease is the least of that kid's worries. I'd rather take the chance and find some broth or something. Soggy bread, anything.

            When you've got 3 days to live, tuberculosis is low on your priority list.
          • drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It's not the child fearing from disease, it's the photographers.
      • firebhaal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Even if it sounds wrong, taking a picture that will open millions of people's eyes and hearts is going to help more than feeding one helpless child that is probably close to death anyway.
    • decay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15more specifically he waited for the vulture to spread its wings.
    • xeomage, on 10/10/2007, -15/+1Poor kid just needed some Sammichal...

      http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9882/sammichalnx9.jpg
    • juicebag, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4*insert extremely offensive /b/ photoshop of said image*
      • kuyman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I dugg you down because you broke the rule.
    • queenstarsha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6yep. it made me decide not to be a journalist when i was in high school. you pick up the kid. you run.
  • jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43Every person should see these pictures.... Undoubtedly an amazing collection of pictures....
    • DeathGod321, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6If they're on digg, they probably already have seen those pictures.
    • LucasVB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8May I also suggest Hubble's Ultra Deep Field and The Pale Blue Dot as well? These pictures are great to remind us about what we do to ourselves, but I think we all should know how little we are and how meaningless our conflicts are. I believe no picture show, if not demands, more sense of unity than the Pale Blue Dot. And yet again, by bringing the HUDF, we just remind ourselves that our precious little dot is nothing special, after all.
      • Chicken2nite, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I would figure Earthrise would have the precedent of being the first high res image from another planetary body, plus there's the fact that the earth is actually recognizable. you point to a pale blue pixel and tell me that's earth... it doesn't do much for me. ditto for the HUDF. At that point you start to get lost in the Total Perspective Vortex.
        • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"you point to a pale blue pixel and tell me that's earth... it doesn't do much for me. ditto for the HUDF."

          Then you don't really understand the point of the pictures.
  • diggface5000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19whether or not you agree with the list- these pictures are important. most people won't take the time to read up on history, but anyone will be moved by these images
    • jimmick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I agree, if you take a look at the 9/11 picture, people actually said it showed disrespect to the dead.
      A testament to people's closed mindedness and unwillingness to accept the world for what it is.
      *runs out of house pleading for some sort of sanity*
      • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Don't pay attention to those digging you down - you're absolutely correct. If we can show the pic of the guerrilla being executed (the first pic on the page) to better understand that part of history, we can show the 9/11 jumper pic to better understand the reasons for the way we felt that day. They are one and the same, and if you believe otherwise you're deluding yourself.
    • NorthstarBlues, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0There are some great photographs missing, but this is a really great list. Just as interesting are the stories behind what happened with the photographers after they took these pictures; how they were moved to get involved or lost their hope.
  • pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+47The pic with the vulture and the starving little boy is so ***** sad....

    Cached, incase it is needed: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:yud9qGQJ1isJ:weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/images-that-changed-world.html+http://weirdworldstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/images-that-changed-world.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
  • Slicebox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+76The "Tank Man" photo (the guy that stood in front of the tanks in Tienanmen Square) is incredibly moving and inspirational to me. I actually got a print from AP and have it hanging up. To put your life at risk for what you believe in, at a moments notice....
    • Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Too bad most people who do so end up under the treads of the machine.
    • bdhughes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3does anyone know what happened to that guy? did he end up getting 're-educated' by the govt?
      • mexicanman07, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15we dont even know what his name was
        • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Arguably, the best part of the photo.
      • ludditte, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3he was reeducated with a bullet in the brain and his family was charged for the cost of the bullet. China another state
        that believes in capital punishment.
      • Fozefy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8"The Unknown Rebel - This famous photo, taken on 5 June 1989 by photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone protester who tried to stop the PLA's advancing tanks until he was pulled into the crowd by several onlookers." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

        Basically, the guy got away with it.
        • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I've read other accounts that say he was taken into custody, and yet another that says he is still alive and living in hiding to this day. The point being, we're not really sure if he got away with it or not.
      • cheesenuggets1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Unknown. Bruce Herschensohn, former deputy special assistant to President Richard Nixon, reported that he was executed 14 days later. Jan Wong's Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now says he's still alive and in hiding. Finally, in 1990 Barbara Walters interviewed Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and asked about the young man's fate. He responded, "I think never killed." So who knows.
      • itwasthursday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, his identity remains a mystery. Check out this Frontline documentary which mentions him. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/
    • Scaryclouds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That really is an amazing photo. The amount of courage it would take to stand in front of certain death... All this for an idea... For freedom... I think what makes the picture even more amazing is w don't even know who he is.
  • ritchmaster, on 10/10/2007, -30/+15felt a lil tear in my eye while looking at those pics. why the hell was that guy standing in front of the tanks.
    • skamper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8read the caption
    • tavman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28You're not serious, right?
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

    • jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30This is why we need these images... so people don't forget....
      • epicstruggle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3But pictures should come with some context. Look at the first image about the viet cong being killed, does this part of the story ever get mentioned (from wiki):
        "South Vietnamese sources said that Lém commanded a Viet Cong assassination platoon, which on that day had targeted South Vietnamese National Police officers, or in their stead, the police officers' families; these sources said that Lém was captured near the site of a ditch holding as many as thirty-four bound and shot bodies of police and their relatives, some of whom were the families of General Loan's deputy and close friend. (In some accounts, the deputy was a victim as well; in others, the number of murdered relatives were as few as six.) Photographer Adams confirmed the South Vietnamese account, although he was only present for the execution."
    • SlappyMc, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4read the description fool.
    • funkytaco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Maybe ritchmaster is young; don't digg the guy down as it's a valid question. I dugg him up one.

      The chinese wanted more rights, but the government ended up killing protesters and such. Living in communist China is probably not very fun. The people protesting wanted government and political reforms for a better life, but sadly, it did not happen.
      • cmpshotty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Yes it did. They wanted Economic reform too. That event is what pushed the Chinese government to become what it is today. Now you're right that it didn't do anything about political reform, but they did get their economic desires.
    • patrickloggins, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A lot of teens in China don't even know about the Square.
  • bakkouz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+38Excellent set of photos, but I'm not sure how the Portraits of Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein changed the world. Sure the photos are well known worldwide, and made their photographers famous, but they didn't exactly "change the world".
    • sparkmonkeyz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Maybe you didn't read the descriptions, but the one of Winston Churchill has been the most reproduced picture in the world, and the one of Albert Einstein showed how someone so smart could still be considered a "beatnik" by the rest of the population, and it brings out his normality as a common human being.
    • UnstableMind, on 10/10/2007, -7/+3Albert Einstein did change the world. Do you remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki? It was partly his research which he later regretted.
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1I like how you added the "which he later regretted" part in there, as if to prove some point. He also later regretted not being a religous person.
      • Castronaut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I don't know how you could get from bakkouz's post that he was implying that the subjects themselves did not change the world. Just the images themself. I agree with him too, because if the definition is that loose, than Eisenhower holding up the newspaper that says his opponent Dewey won should be on there. Eisenhower changed the world, and that picture showed his sense of humor, but the picture itself did not change the world.
    • alwilson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Let me give you a 20 second history lesson. Ready? Winston Churchill was instrumental in ending WWII, he was a key player in the powers that brought the end to Nazi Germany. Without him, we all might all be speaking German, unless you are Jewish. For being that, you would be dead.

      Albert Einstein was arguably one of the most brilliant of scientists in the history of humanity. Rated right up there with Galileo, Copernicus and Newton. Einstein's theories are still the center of great scientific discovery and have proven true long after his death. Ever hear of MC2 (MC Square)? That was Einsteins theory of relativity. What's that got to do with history? Everything! Why is this particular photo so important? It shows the human side of a brilliant man. It's a shame you don't know that. Don't they have schools where you live?
  • Shiftyeyedgoat, on 10/10/2007, -22/+5Seriously, what the ***** is with all the "changed the world!" or "*something* in the world!" or "of the world" threads today?

  • ScotchInBox, on 10/10/2007, -50/+2blog spam - yet again
  • crushfan, on 10/10/2007, -19/+8I really wonder if it's necessary to put "AMAZING" in every ***** title. We're talking about Eddie Adams' photo here... You have no difference between Fox News - reporting Virginia Tech Massacre by saying "Oh my god, amazing... Jesus! Did you see that? Oh... Amazing" or any other *****.
    • Ukonu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I agree. It feels almost wrong to label pictures of starving children, nuclear explosions, and tortured dead bodies as: "AWESOME PICS".
      But whatever gets him his diggs I suppose.
  • mirzar, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13ever since i read the grapes of wrath, i feel this burning hatred for big business every time i see the picture of the migrant mother
    • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I feel that way every time I watch cable news. But yeah, also for the migrant mother.
    • ButSeriouslyNow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Was that big business' fault? The world's economy was going to hell in a handbasket.
    • pyerby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I understand your hatred, but you really need to re-evaluate the direction in which it is cast. A flourishing economy is the antidote to hunger and poverty. Big business works in furtherance of the economy. If you want to think about the effect of big business on people's lives, compare countries with flourishing big businesses (like the U.S., Japan, and most of Europe) to those with none (any of the various poverty stricken African countries).
  • Thumpster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+47And Eddie Adams just about hated that photo of his. It mostly destroyed the life of Nguyen Ngoc Loan. From wiki:

    "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 people?"
    • ONELOVE23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31This was during Tet. At the very start of the offensive Viet Cong assassins (no uniforms) specifically targeted high South Vietnamese officials and their families at their homes (not Americans). General Nguyen Ngoc had just learned that this entire family had been murdered. He took out his rage on a captured assassin.

      I'm not making excuses, just the facts. This photo was used out of context by the US media to depict the South Vietnamese as brutal. I was 16 at the time and very anti war. Even more so after I was drafted 2 years later and went there. War sucks.

      BTW, the Tet Offensive effectively eliminated the Viet Cong (southern revolutionaries working underground). They were hunted down and killed and lost all popular support.

      Some say this was planned by the North to eliminate them as political competition.
    • queenstarsha, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1what you do is arrest them. he was handcuffed. in america before the republicans, no one got shot without trial to great applause. the perpetuation of injustice causes war.
      • Scaryclouds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Injustice doesn't cause war, greed does. Injustice and war is an inevitable outcome of greed.
      • OhROFL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You are retarded.
        1) That's not America. Nor is it an American.
        2) Republicans? Yes, it is entirely their fault. As soon as they came around, slaves were freed and people got "shot without trial".
        3) I'm sure you would arrest someone kindly who was found to have killed your family. Oh wait, a rational human being would go ape *****.
  • Crushkilla, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1I'm pretty sure all these pictures are taken from Time Magazine's "Images that Changed the World."
  • euphemizeme, on 10/10/2007, -22/+74Where's Goatse?
  • zuppy, on 10/10/2007, -14/+4I know at least one digg post in the last 1-2 months that had them all. Thumbs down, try to be more original.
    • zuppy, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2what a bunch a morons... you buried my post even if i said something true.
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1is it really true? i bet it was more than 2 months ago
    • DiggaDave, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2I dugg ya up. I knew I had dugg these before. I was just lookin for a comment that said the same.
    • iansmith6, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The entire article was copied, not just the pictures.

      Here is the first one, complete with the missing links that are mentioned at the top:: http://pinguy.infogami.com/blog/vwm6
  • bouche, on 10/10/2007, -19/+13I didn't realize that it was the monthly submission of these SAME ***** PICTURES again.
  • funkytaco, on 10/10/2007, -3/+79Einstein wasn't a beatnik. He just got tired of posing for paparazzi photos that day and stuck out his tongue to ruin the shot. It of course became the most famous one because he is thought of as a genius, yet he's showing a silly side people probably didn't see much.
  • sallos, on 10/10/2007, -33/+1So sick of mile long pages of just random pictures. Thats what google images is for!
  • cmpshotty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11It's an incomplete list, but a good list none the less.
  • kosmoss, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30It made me cry.
  • dewyjuhl, on 10/10/2007, -16/+4this story has been submitted like 4 times. literally
    • Burrito, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19So? Is there some Ubuntu news that is more important?
    • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2literally?
    • thedragon4453, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I am not sure I see your point. Something so obviously important only has a place on digg once, because you've seen it?

      4 times or not, this is the first time I've seen it, and I'm thankful for the resubmit.
  • YellowStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Many of the 1930's NYC skyscraper workers on those beams and girders were from Newfoundland or native Americans (Mohawk).
  • IphtashuFitz, on 10/10/2007, -8/+16The firefighter holding the baby in the picture from the Oklahoma City bombing was Capt. Chris Fields. I believe he committed suicide a few years after the bombing because he couldn't handle the stress caused by the publicity from that picture. He, along with many other emergency responders came down with post traumatic stress disorder as a result of responding to the bombing. (Ditto for a lot of the 9/11 rescue workers.) As much as many of those pictures sadden me it's things like this that really make me choke up when you realize just how fragile the lives of those we rely on to respond to emergencies can also be.
    • bglav, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I can't find anywhere that the firefighter pictured committed suicide. http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/04-96/04-07-96/1aoak.htm

      Chris is still giving interviews, but figures his celebrity will soon pass. "If it doesn't," he says, "I'll just keep representing the Oklahoma City Fire Department."
    • HA5TY, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I just search google and it says 10 years later he got his a degree in physical therapy.......but you said he killed himself a few years after this happened.
      heres the link-- http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=Oklahoma_City_Bombing
    • ThePeteStanis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Fitz and Ha5ty both fail. Ha5ty has the same link as I do, just not the same reading comprehension.

      Chris Fields is still alive: "Ten years after the bombing Chris Fields has gone from Capt. to Major and is the acting battalion chief with the fire department."

      Chris Porter (the photographer): "Eventually he went back to school and found his destiny - a degree in physical therapy."

      Meh, it's Digg. I don't really come here for the truth anyway...
  • qwertylicious, on 10/10/2007, -4/+44Excuse my stupidity. How did the picture of Churchill change the world?
    • jun2san, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Oh, thank god I wasn't the only one who thought that. I literally had a confused look on my face when I got down to that picture.
    • jhuang16888, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Oh... just showed how badass Churchill was
    • alwilson, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24So you need a history lesson. It's not the picture, it's the content of the picture and how Churchill's posture and expression represents the allies determination that no matter what, they will never, never, never give up. Read about Churchill and the critical role he played in the war, and you will better understand the photo.

      It's because of photos like this that gave the general public the determination to make personal sacrifices to win WWII. Every single person living in the US was involved in the war effort, much different than subsequent wars. If you weren't fighting in the war, you were working to supply it, or were making some kind of personal sacrifice through rationing. When the public looked at the photo, they just knew that Churchill was a strong leader and that gave the public confidence.

      A bit of trivia for you. Churchill always smoked cigars. The photographer wanted a photo without the cigar but Churchill refused. Guess he didn't want to be bothered with trivial things. The photographer walked quickly over and took the cigar from his hand. When he returned to his camera, he saw Churchill glaring at him and snapped the photo. The photo represents the extreme determination Churchill had and how tough of a leader he was.
      • queenstarsha, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1and how much he loved his cigars (and food, from the looks of it) when people were sacrificing everything.

        whatta buncha *****. that picture doesn't belong there.
      • Boreras, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Then I would consider Stalin and Hitler pictures way more important, because they both played a role that was quite a lot bigger than England's and Churchill's. I mean, no "disrespect" for the U.K. in the WOII, they did very well, and tried very hard, but the two most important parties in the war were the Germans and the Russians.
        The same goes for the USA pictures from WOII, America played a role of less importance than the two totalitarian countries mentioned before.
  • cerealjynx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+50I don't care if it's resubmitted. These pictures are moving and important. Dugg.
  • moxley, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3I think that Kent State picture is the edited version. They edited out the blood. (not the poster, I'm talking about back shortly after it happened).
    • Jaq524, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6No, that picture was only edited to remove a pole behind Mary Ann Vecchio. In this version the pole still appears, so it's not the edited version.
  • insanebrain, on 10/10/2007, -24/+10It's missing bush . .the biggest ***** and world destroyer ever.
  • SpykerSpeed, on 10/10/2007, -17/+1Nothing more than emotional bluster. Thank God for the internet and context so we don't have to rely on Time magazine for our understanding of the world.
  • slowmode, on 10/10/2007, -14/+0FOR THOSE WHO WANT A VIDEO OF THIS CHECK THIS OUT
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=sME4rQySK6M
    • smarba, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2based on that comment, you probably fit better on youtube.
  • Burrito, on 10/10/2007, -14/+7I can't look at these now. American Idol is on.
    • Burrito, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What? Only Colbert can do satire now??
    • queenstarsha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ohmigod. look! at! sanjaya's! hairrrr!
  • harlowsmonkeys, on 10/10/2007, -2/+54Eddie Adams, who took the photo of the execution of that prisoner in Vietnam had this to say when the shooter died in 1998:

    "The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him"

    The backstory to that photo is that the prisoner was the head of a squad that had targeted police, and if it couldn't find the police, their families. The prisoner had been caught near the bodies of several police and their relatives, who had been bound and shot.

    If you lead a squad whose job is to go around executing police and their families, you should consider yourself lucky if, when you get caught, all you get is a bullet to the head.
    • ONELOVE23, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Amen. See my previous post. Learn to question every photo, every video, every article. There is no such thing as objectivity, and there never has been. Everything is taken out of context and spun. No excuses for General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. But ask yourself, what would you have done in his shoes? Also, in Vietnam, journalists had free reign, unlike today. I would much prefer free inquiry, however manipulated to "embedded" propaganda. The true facts about Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan did eventually come out. There is much about Iraq that we will never know.
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5If I were in his shoes I would've made sure there wasn't a photographer right there,
    • queenstarsha, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1no. ***** you. did you *see* the ***** lynch mob picture? that isn't how justice works, you *****.
      • Scaryclouds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm not saying what General Nguyen did was right, but like ONELOVE23 said, put yourself in his shoes.
  • Wildhoney, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Duplicate story but good photographs nonetheless.
  • Ifishbein, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Spectacular!
  • kneeofwisdom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8The link to the documentary on Tienanmen Square made this digg particularly meritorious.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4727787930108202470
  • LordSlashstab55, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2you can see the footage of about 3 to 5 in the intro of the Zeitgeist movie
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331
  • terrenceisdaman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+42so why didnt they save that girl from the water?
    • TheLoneHoot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43She was pinned down by debris under the water. It was the result of a flood/mudflow from a nearby volcanic eruption in Colombia. They didn't have the necessary equipment and the roads were impassable for the most part. It was a very tragic moment in time. Nobody remembers the 25,000 people who died there, save those in Colombia mabye. Also a tragedy. Her story has haunted be since then (late 80s).
  • Lionhart, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3Direct copy of another blog: http://pinguy.infogami.com/blog/vwm6
    Which is probably a direct copy if Time Magazine...

    Amazing images, but still blogspam. Look at some of the other crap in this blog. It looks like it is written by a 13 year old boy.
  • gossipninja, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3so that pic with the vulture and the boy...why didnt the photographer put down his camera and help the boy to food? I always wondered that. Why dont these journalists who say its so bad, do something when they see something so terrible? I understand they can only do so much, but jeez, pick the kid up and take him somewhere, if nothing else it stops a VULTURE from eating him as he wastes away.
    • jun2san, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Apparently this photographer thought the same thing later on and this haunted him until he ended up committing 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]

      Criticism surrounding his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph and the death of a close friend, Ken Oosterbroek, who was accidentally shot and killed in Tokoza on April 18, 1994 while covering township violence, may have contributed to Carter's suicide."

      Taken from wikipedia
    • onewingedangel9, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8The picture will be published worldwide, possibly causing a lot more good than just 1 person helping 1 child. Then again, who's to say the photographer DIDN'T help the child AFTER he took the picture?
    • DoobieWheel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Journalists were forbidden from helping the famine victims in case they spread disease.
      • ludditte, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1what a great human being you must be to just sit there and watch somebody die when a sip of water could help, no wonder he killed himself
        • tiggyfiggy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1but you then spread a disease that not only kills you, but also another hundred people?
    • iansmith6, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Every one of those reporters WERE helping simply by putting their lives in danger and taking the pictures. But you miss the whole point... it's not just a single starving child. He could give one child his food. But there would be another, and another, and another.

      Now think about this... have you helped a starving child today? Donating a few dollars online is quick and easy.
    • joker2k3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I read somewhere (like DoobieWheel) that at least in this case the photographers were forbidden to help or even touch the people in the area.
    • alwilson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, if there was just one kid that you could help, that would be a good thing. However, if you are surrounded by thousands, which one do you help? You make it sound like there was one incidence with one vulture and he did nothing. You are seeing one point of view. What was the view behind the photographer, or to the left or right, or in the next village. You see so much suffering that it would drive you crazy. If you help one you have to try and help them all and that is impossible for one person. The best way to help is to capture it on film and show the world.
    • drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's easy to judge when you sit nice and comfortable in your home. Arm chair quarterback. There are reasons why reporters can't and in some cases shouldn't help. You may not agree with those reasons. If you feel so strongly about wanting to help, i suggest you hop on the nearest plane to Africa.
  • Daiken, on 10/10/2007, -19/+2Changed the world? No.
    Famous photographs nonetheless.
    • TheLoneHoot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5When photos raise awareness of events worldwide, some awareness becomes activism or political fodder. THAT is change. When it affects governments or societies all over the globe, it can be said to have changed the world.

      An example is the famous image of the Vietnamese girl burned by napalm. Images such as this helped get out the story to the average world citizen of what napalm is and does. As a result changes were made regarding its use, and the perception of militaries employing napalm and similar weapons became quite negative around the world. That's something that can be termed changing the world.
    • queenstarsha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1sadly, i see your point. china's still oppressing people. the u.s. still threatens to nuke anyone who looks at 'em funny. children are still injured and killed in bombings by "the good guys." children starve to death while no one does anything. young men still think it's okay to kill unarmed human beings if their leader says so.
  • addatwork, on 10/10/2007, -15/+2good job stealing content from http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/ BRAVOS!
    • rodon, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1seriously.. I just saw these same pictures last night from http://www.worldfamousphotos.com WTF is up with people? The descriptions are taken word for word from that site.
      • rodon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4*****.. even worldfamousphotos.com is a ripoff of digitaljournalist.org.. again.. wtf is up with people?
  • Tuggboat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Taken as a collection, they relocate my current externally and internally manipulated perspective and create a context for more contemporary happenings. I have no problem if this has been repeated recently, other less moving stuff is repeated daily. Stirring one's soul occasionally helps incorporate big media's flotsam into the soup.
  • petebert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15world press photo has all of these plus more, probably some of the most depressing photos I've ever seen but hopefully will help you realize that if Starbucks messes up your coffee order you are still having a great day http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=15&Itemid=115&bandwidth=high
    • Womack123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Thanks for ruining my day even more after seeing the original article
  • KAZVorpal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They left out the pic of the stormtrooper abducting Elian Gonzalez, to send him back to the tyranny from which his mother had died freeing him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Inselian.jpg
  • SimonGray, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3The Wright brothers didn't conduct the first human flight as it says on that page, they made the first working air plane. Air balloons and air ships existed prior to air planes.
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