Parafox Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Jamie Bulger CCTV footage... Anyone who has children will find this very moving... that poor little boy, an innocent, trusting 3 year old who believed all people were good, walking to his death :(
stripeyfox Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 OH DEAR GOD... This photo shows fireman Chris Fields holding dying infant Baylee Almon at the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Tragically the infant was one of 169 people who were killed that day. The photo won the Pulitzer Price for News Photograhy in 1996.
MikeyT Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 One of the most famous photographs ever published by Life, V-J Day In Times Square was shot in Times Square on August 14, 1945. Alfred Eisenstaedt was in the square taking candids when he spotted a sailor "running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight," he later explained. "Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn't make any difference. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder... Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse." Eisenstadt was very gratified and pleased with this enduring image, saying: "People tell me that when I am in heaven they will remember this picture." The participants in the kiss were never confirmed by Eisenstaedt, whose notes on the photo were not found after his death in 1995. Life, however, accepted nurse Edith Cullen Shain's claim to this honor in a handwritten letter to Eisenstaedt 35 years later. Shain was 27 on V-J Day. Over 20 men have claimed to be the sailor, but none has been positively identified. The sailor was identified by a team of volunteers at the Naval War College in August 2005 as George Mendonça, of Newport, Rhode Island, although many other men have claimed the honor. Shain then identified the sailor to be former New York City police detective Carl Muscarello.
UpTheLeagueFox Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 This is quite sublime, interesting, sad yet uplifting thread. Great work everyone.
Tielemans63 Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Homs, Syria, 28th Feb 2012 Saw this father and his stricken child on the news yesterday. I always feel awkward watching things like this on the news. I'm always very aware that I'm being presented with someone else's raw grief. I often wonder why the hell it's mine or anyone else's business to see this. On the other hand we wouldn't know the severity of the situation if it wasn't for the news. Where do you draw the line? It's a tough one.
Leicfox Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Black physicians treating in the ER a member of the Ku Kux Klan
Zingari Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Black physicians treating in the ER a member of the Ku Kux Klan i'm not absolutely sure but i think that's a fake http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/klaner.asp
Leicfox Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 i'm not absolutely sure but i think that's a fake http://www.snopes.co...ical/klaner.asp Minstrels ?
pSinatra Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Nothing in comparison to the Nuremberg rallies, but I was amazed the first time I saw this photograph. Sir Oswald Mosley leading a meeting of the British Union of Fascists at Earls Court in July 1939
Guest Bilo Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 That picture brings it home for me. Fascism really COULD have happened here if things had been different. Thankfully, Oswald Mosley had all the charisma of a used Durex.
Phube Posted 29 February 2012 Posted 29 February 2012 Nothing in comparison to the Nuremberg rallies, but I was amazed the first time I saw this photograph. Sir Oswald Mosley leading a meeting of the British Union of Fascists at Earls Court in July 1939 Ahhh... Max (F1) Mosley's dad! Makes you proud!
FoxesAreBlue Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 I can't post a pic because I'm on my phone but the image of Zidane walking past the world cup trophy after being sent off in his last game. Such a great player ending his career in such a sad way. He must regret that.
StanSP Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 I can't post a pic because I'm on my phone but the image of Zidane walking past the world cup trophy after being sent off in his last game. Such a great player ending his career in such a sad way. He must regret that. This isn't poignant though because it's not the holocaust or a disaster picture
ajthefox Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 Where's that picture of Smuts at Stoke..? On a more serious note; Always gets me. To be driven to do such a thing to yourself is just beyond comprehension.
flowwolf Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 Innocent until proven guilty. He was acquitted... twice. So how come he never had little girls to stop over night with him then ? nothing poignant about him what so ever , he brought his way out of it ( Jordy Chandler for instance ) . Anyone with a ounce of common sense knows he was a nonce.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 All these from Black Saturday a day i will remember for a long long time.
ajthefox Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 That last one is pretty powerful Roo. Emergency service workers are so often seen in photos like the one posted a page or two back saving someone or something, makes this one all the more hard hitting.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 That last one is pretty powerful Roo. Emergency service workers are so often seen in photos like the one posted a page or two back saving someone or something, makes this one all the more hard hitting. Alot of them worked that day in 40 degree plus heat (that was with out a fire in front of you) for over 24 hours straight. Many of whom had lost there own homes and in some cases friends and relatives. It was truly a crazy few days it seemed as tho half of Melbourne and Victoria was under fire.
ACF Posted 1 March 2012 Posted 1 March 2012 Alot of them worked that day in 40 degree plus heat (that was with out a fire in front of you) for over 24 hours straight. Many of whom had lost there own homes and in some cases friends and relatives. It was truly a crazy few days it seemed as tho half of Melbourne and Victoria was under fire. I could see the fires about 50 km away, from my bedroom window. That's how close to home it was. Scary day.
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