The Most Memorable Photograph of All Time?

[JTG]

photoshop

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

or

i reckon.

 

[JTG]

is she picking her veruca or summat?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

is she picking her veruca or summat?

class

 

[gabi]

 

[Thora]

You have got to be kidding me, I didn't have you down as a tin-foil hat type

I'm suprised you would be so willing to believe them!

 

[JTG]

she's been brainwashed

 

[8ball]

Always thought Thora had good-mental, not bad-mental.

(((bad-mental Thora)))

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

why?

 

[gabi]

In reality, this is it

Altho Im sure theres better versions of it.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

why?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html

someone else's opinion JC2. what is yours?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

someone else's opinion JC2. what is yours?

My opinion is that the photo encapsulates War.

I provided the link in case you weren't familiar with it. Background, and the like.

 

[treefrog]

it's not really a personal perspective though, is it?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

My opinion is that the photo encapsulates War.

I provided the link in case you weren't familiar with it. Background, and the like.

War? When. I doubt whether the harsh reality of 'War' really is captured these days by that pic. Although civil disobedience or insurrection or disorder might come close.

But does 'war' and/or 'violence' and/or '???' define your most memorable photo JC2? nothing with hope or forgiveness or owt else?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

War? When. I doubt whether the harsh reality of 'War' really is captured these days by that pic. Although civil disobedience or insurrection or disorder might come close.

But does 'war' and/or 'violence' and/or '???' define your most memorable photo JC2? nothing with hope or forgiveness or owt else?

I think the reality of war is captured just fine in the pic. It's a random, unknown individual, not a hero or a general, losing his life in an unknown, nondescript location. Somebody's father, husband, brother.

All that he was, is departing, at the moment the picture is taken.

The tools of war might change, but the essence is the same.

As for images of hope etc, they're fine too, but I'm selecting what I select as being most memorable. It's obviously a subjective process.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

it's not really a personal perspective though, is it?

I don't get what you mean.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I think the reality of war is captured just fine in the pic. It's a random, unknown individual, not a hero or a general, losing his life in an unknown, nondescript location. Somebody's father, husband, brother.

All that he was, is departing, at the moment the picture is taken.

The tools of war might change, but the essence is the same.

As for images of hope etc, they're fine too, but I'm selecting what I select as being most memorable. It's obviously a subjective process.

So 'war' is the overriding factor in making an objective judgement about what SE said was the 'most memorable photo of all time'. surely, there are other bits of human munificence that have dragged on your heart strings slightly. after all, you've posted the odd attractive snap sometimes, something to make you smile maybe?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

So 'war' is the overriding factor in making an objective judgement about what SE said was the 'most memorable photo of all time'. surely, there are other bits of human munificence that have dragged on your heart strings slightly. after all, you've posted the odd attractive snap sometimes, something to make you smile maybe?

Sure, there have been happy photos, etc, but I think this is one of the most memorable photos ever.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Sure, there have been happy photos, etc, but I think this is one of the most memorable photos ever.

Ok JC2, why is it that an image that is famously associated with death, despair and destruction is so closely identified with 'most memorable'? Has your life been that bad?

Surely, there are other images that you remember? Are they all so sad?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ok JC2, why is it that an image that is famously associated with death, despair and destruction is so closely identified with 'most memorable'? Has your life been that bad?

Surely, there are other images that you remember? Are they all so sad?

How odd.


What I'm doing, is thinking about the most memorable photo ever. Chances are good that a photo will be memorable if it is powerful, if it addresses timeless themes, and often, if there is something unusual, remarkable, or shocking about it that will cause it to stay in the memory.

I remember many many images, but usually pictures of smiling babies, flowers, or lambs, won't meet the criteria for 'most memorable'.

The question isn't most pleasing, or happiest, but 'most memorable'.

Also, it doesn't say, 'most memorable to you', but 'most memorable'. We're judging the photography of the world. There are personal photos that have much more meaning to me, and are more memorable than that one, but that isn't what was asked.

 

[JTG]

I like this one, from the 1984/85 miners' strike

 

[boskysquelch]

bal blah bla blah blah bla bla bla blha blaaaa blah blah blah blah blah BLAH..bla bla bla bla blah blah blH. blah.

did he win then?

OR

is this the MOST memorable photograph of all time?

 

[Thora]

Always thought Thora had good-mental, not bad-mental.

(((bad-mental Thora)))

Sheeple

 

[golightly]

This is a memorable photo, but it's fake. It was set up. You can debate the whether the moon landings were fake as much as you like but the photo of Aldrin taken by Armstrong is still memorable whether it was taken on the moon or in a studio. Thora's comments considering the topic of the thread thread title are irrelevant.

 

[boskysquelch]

Thora's comments considering the topic of the thread thread title are irrelevant.

so are yours... I've won photo_n00b.

 

[_pH_]

That Kevin Carter one.....or a photo of an East German guard leaping over the barbed wire in Berlin....can't remember his name though

 

[boskysquelch]

....can't remember his name though

FAIL then