The Most Memorable Photograph of All Time?
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I'm going for a nice Ansell Adams landscape:
Most memorable to me because it was the subject of an 'A' level essay or, summat?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Henri Cartier Bresson yet. Very prolific and most of his work very quickly forgotten, but this shot usually comes up in these sort of lists:
golightly's Flag over the Reichstag nomination is a good example of a powerful propaganda image, but Capa's shot (as posted by JC2) is also said to have been staged.
Interesting that Four of the photographs posted so far are actually considered by most experts to be staged, or set-up and reported as actual events.
Most memorable to me because it was the subject of an 'A' level essay or, summat?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Henri Cartier Bresson yet. Very prolific and most of his work very quickly forgotten, but this shot usually comes up in these sort of lists:
golightly's Flag over the Reichstag nomination is a good example of a powerful propaganda image, but Capa's shot (as posted by JC2) is also said to have been staged.
Interesting that Four of the photographs posted so far are actually considered by most experts to be staged, or set-up and reported as actual events.
This would have been in a top 10 list 20 years ago. Seems all but forgotten now.
Barking_Mad
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lighterthief
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That's a deeply unsettling picture.
The TV/Newspaper audience had the stark truth brought to them by viewing this starving child, attended to by a vulture only, through this photographer's lens. Conversely, viewing the unfolding famine through his lens removed/distanced the photographer from the reality of the scene.
stowpirate
skinflintish camera nut
Sugarmouse
DVNC
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That pics won a few prizes.... I am struck by the photographer though- I am not sure I could calmly focus a camera at that scene. I just remember thinking the vulture is awaiting the child to die at least,before he tears it apart for dinner.
That photo would be one of my all time faves though. But with this thread I was confused as to whether Stanley meant personal photos, or just images in general.
Wasn't that pic found to be a setup?
zenie
>^^<
Sugarmouse
DVNC
The clue is in tht title he says 'the' not 'your'
Right ok.No, I dont beleive it is a setup?But I guess it could be. I thinkthe tog commited suicide shortly afterward..
It's even on currency, it is that famous. In fact, when it was used by an advertising agency to promote vodka the photographer (who is still alive) took it to court and won, because not only did the subject not drink (although he was often drunk in a book he wrote) but also because it was offensive to anti-capitalism.
Bingo.
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The V&A Museum also proclaims it "the most reproduced image in the history of photography."[5] Jonathan Green director of the UCR Museum of Photography has postulated that "Korda’s image has worked its way into languages around the world. It has become an alpha-numeric symbol, a hieroglyph, an instant symbol. It mysteriously reappears whenever there’s a conflict. There isn’t anything else in history that serves in this way."[6]
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The V&A Museum also proclaims it "the most reproduced image in the history of photography."[5] Jonathan Green director of the UCR Museum of Photography has postulated that "Korda’s image has worked its way into languages around the world. It has become an alpha-numeric symbol, a hieroglyph, an instant symbol. It mysteriously reappears whenever there’s a conflict. There isn’t anything else in history that serves in this way."[6]
stowpirate
skinflintish camera nut
Except this
Che also had good taste in cameras, he used a Leica.
http://www.c-weng.com/cheguevara01.jpg
I've always been impressed with this photographer for clicking at that exact moment.
stowpirate
skinflintish camera nut
Vietnam has some iconic images. How does something like this compare to the homeless thread and the right to photograph them for gain?
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Didn't the photographer kill himself?It makes you wonder, that kind of photo.
The clue is in the OPThe clue is in tht title he says 'the' not 'your'
Quite a few of these photos are on this thread in a different form
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=245767
Vietnam has some iconic images. How does something like this compare to the homeless thread and the right to photograph them for gain?
it was staged.
the Woman has said so... often.
Those who are bold and brave enough to choose a career in war photography deserve every penny they get for spreading the truth IMO. It's a job and we all need money.
People who choose to snap shots of people down on their luck for personal gain aren't doing it in the belief they're going to change society for the better. I'm not really sure why they do it TBH
this however wasn't
I know, I can't even be arsed to point it out anymore.
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