The world's most famous photograph

[scottmandue]

I find it sad that so many think of death and war when it comes to the 'worlds most famous photograph'

[Dantilla]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

I find it sad that so many think of death and war when it comes to the 'worlds most famous photograph'

Seeing the horrors of war, what humans are capable of doing to other humans, leaves a real impact on the brain.

That is going to create far more emotion than a pretty picture of flowers or a river in the woods.

[GH85Carrera]

Most all of the photos posted are famous ONLY in the USA. Do you think anyone in Africa or South America cares anything about most of the pictures on the last few pages.

Pretty women and death has been and always will be part of the human condition.

That photo of Earth from the moon was something no one had ever seen before. It made the entire earth look small and cozy.

Carl Sagan said it way better than I ever could:



Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Dantilla

Seeing the horrors of war, what humans are capable of doing to other humans, leaves a real impact on the brain.

That is going to create far more emotion than a pretty picture of flowers or a river in the woods.

I don't see any flowers in the picture I posted or the OP.

And people made a profit off those photo's of the "horrors of war"... they sold magazines and that is only reason they were published and became famous... food for thought.

[look 171]

Scott,

Its shocking to see a man with a gun to another man's head knowing what the outcome is. That mental image tends to stick to my hard drive. If you ask someone in a war torn country, I bet the answer would be different.

The gaze of those green eyes from he photo of the Afghan girl was so mesmerizing. I still remember the exact location and time I first saw that cover.

[vash]

where's that bigfoot photo?

[seanratpel]

Prize-winning photograph in Sudan[edit]







Carter's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph
In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, Carter was preparing to photograph a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center when a hooded vulture landed nearby. Carter reported taking the picture, because it was his "job title", and leaving. He was told not to touch the children for fear of transmitting disease. He committed suicide three months after winning the Pulitzer Prize.[4]

Sold to the New York Times, the photograph first appeared on 26 March 1993 and was carried in many other newspapers around the world. Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask the fate of the girl. The paper reported that it was unknown whether she had managed to reach the feeding centre. In April 1994, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for

** This is what has become of us...pitiful.

[seanratpel]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Kevin-Carter-Child-Vulture-Sudan.jpg


Goes to above commentary

[pavulon]

[scottmandue]

I would add that the photojournalist taking pictures of war no doubt have altruistic motives. However if the intent is to show man's inhumanity to man and thus bring an end to war... well... the human race has not made much progress in that area has it?

Personally I would rather look at pictures of the space program where mankind has made some progress.

But to each their own:

[BE911SC]

[GWN7]

The story of her life was interesting when they found her again.

[Z-man]

I think the OP means the most famous picture taken OF the world, not necessarily the most famous picture in the world.

Just sayin'
-Z

[BE911SC]

[nota]

this
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2014-27-a-large_web.jpg

[scottmandue]

Well, why didn't you say so?

http://youtu.be/iUsYskn5P7o

[jorian]

Not the most famous but worth posting.

[jorian]

London Calling

[URY914]

Is the most famous nude the one of Marilyn Monroe as the first Playboy centerfold?

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by jorian

Not the most famous but worth posting.

Reincarnated?