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I ran across this (http://wtam.com/cc-common/gallery/display.html?album_id=66759) while checking the local news. It's a gallery of 50 famous photographs.

Take a gander. Are there any that you haven't seen before?

What famous photographs are missing? I would say that this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunchtime_atop_a_Skyscraper)belongs in the Top 50. Also this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat_Gula).

What say you, NSG?

cba to look through the photo's but if there isn't tubgirl then these won't be 50 famous photographs

*snip*
Tubgirl

I hate you for making me see that. I wish I could go back in time.

This (http://copiaeincolla.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/guernica.jpg).
Guernica after the calamity.

This one is missing:
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/50/71350-004-75E35FF9.jpg

and there are more but my mind has gone blank -_-

People shouldn't have to do this kind of pleading (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geraldo-Rivera-Katrina-Aftermath-FNC.jpg)...

http://arsenalist.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/michael-jordan-slam-dunk-88-poster.jpg

Given the mileage Nike has gained from this picture.

I can't say I even knew half of those photos.

This one (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hatch/images/europe/berlin.guard)is definitely missing.

This one is also missing

http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/Dewey-Truman.jpg

This one is also missing

http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/Dewey-Truman.jpg

Why didn't I suggest that one too? :(

Why didn't I suggest that one too? :(

Because you're made of phail.

This one is also missing

http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/Dewey-Truman.jpg

Never seen it before, thb.

Because you're made of phial.

I'm made of the Phial of Galadriel? That'd make me the ultimate ToME artifact!

*ahem* we now return to our previously discussed photography thread.

This one is also missing

http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/Dewey-Truman.jpg

Damn beat me to it. I was looking for that...

I can't really post a link to the one I thought was missing, but it probably isn't a very important one anyway, other than locally.

I've seen 18 on them before, but yeah they're missing that picture of that chick.

SNIP

if you've seen one picture of Blackpool you've seen em all tbh

SNIP

what on Earth possessed Churchill to wear that coat?

I've seen 18 on them before, but yeah they're missing that picture of that chick.

I'd say Fearne Cotton is more a girl you have to see at work though

Elvis was pretty famous (http://www.8notes.com/images/artists/elvis-presley.jpg)

Ms Monroe's generally remember for this one (http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/associated%20press_marilyn_monroe_seven_yr_itch_L.jpg)

Mandela (http://www.noutopia.com/Resources/person_nelson_mandela_in_prison.jpg)

Need a WWI, though to be fair I'm struggling to think of an individual iconic image.

What about the photos of the Shackleton expedition?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_expedition
The photos of Edward S. Curtis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S_Curtis
or Eadweard Muybridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge

or that girl playing tennis with no knickers scratching her arse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Girl

I've seen most of them, but I dislike the way the website doesn't give photographer details.

This (http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/) site is better.

There are several of those that don't seem to be "famous photos" so much as "photos of famous events/people."

There are several of those that don't seem to be "famous photos" so much as "photos of famous events/people."

Famous events or people to the US - who the hell cares about a picture of some obscure baseball player?

Famous events or people to the US - who the hell cares about a picture of some obscure baseball player?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson

Some are a bit US-centric, for sure, but not exclusively so.

EDIT: and, c'mon, 'Tennis Girl' isn't exactly a world-famous shot either. Cuter than Jackie, though. :wink:

I've seen most of them, but I dislike the way the website doesn't give photographer details.

This (http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/) site is better.

That is a nice site. Saw quite a few on there that I didn't see in the OP.

Famous events or people to the US - who the hell cares about a picture of some obscure baseball player?

Um. Jackie Robinson is not exactly "some obscure baseball player."

I certainly agree that they're excessively US-centric, though - and I also think that particular photo fits in my category of "photos of famous people" rather than "famous photos," and thus really shouldn't be included.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson

Some are a bit US-centric, for sure, but not exclusively so.

EDIT: and, c'mon, 'Tennis Girl' isn't exactly a world-famous shot either. Cuter than Jackie, though. :wink:

I still don't think Jackie Robinson is any more significant than a picture of the first Chinese person to play professional snooker. I admit I added Tennis girl as a joke.

Um. Jackie Robinson is not exactly "some obscure baseball player."

I certainly agree that they're excessively US-centric, though - and I also think that particular photo fits in my category of "photos of famous people" rather than "famous photos," and thus really shouldn't be included.

Indeed, some are hardly good photographs.


I like this (http://www.abneypark.com/sanfranfromairship.jpg) picture a lot.

Um. Jackie Robinson is not exactly "some obscure baseball player."

Outside North America all baseball players are obscure.

URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat_Gula"]this one.

What say you, NSG?
That may be my favorite picture of all time.

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarjevo by the Serbian Nationalist,Gavrillo Princips, in 1914 was the shooting that led to millions of deaths in World War 1 (and that was only the dress rehearsal to WWII):
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWassass2.jpg

What about Marilyn Monroe over the steam vent?
http://www.testriffic.com/resultfiles/17812019_1374~Marilyn-Monroe-Posters.jpg

Well, I think this one here definitely deserves mentioning.

http://www.bundestag.de/blickpunkt/bilderInhalte/0501/500px/0501025.jpg

The captions for those photos read like they were co-written by Tinky Winky and La La. But I'm glad they included Florence Owens Thompson. I have that photo on my wall, and will always find it very poignant.

As for missing photos, I'm bemused they left out Kevin Carter's famous photo (http://iusbpreface.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/kevin_carter.jpg).

Other possible choices:
- Paul Simonon on the front of London Calling (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/TheClashLondonCallingalbumcover.jpg);
- the starving PoW (http://www-tc.pbs.org/thepriceoffreedom/images/features/tertiary-starving-pow.jpg) (couldn't find a bigger image);
- and, for the 21st century, this one (http://visibility911.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/card_tells_bush.jpg).

Well said Quint! Yes, the caption writer did not do much justice to many of the photos and included such nauseating and vacuous comments - th eflag waving particularly annoyed me.

I liked the photos that you included.
I started looking through the Auschwitz ones but gave up because I got sick of trawling through obscenity.

they dont have this one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/recent/falklands/images/falklands_6_yomp.jpg

Elvis was pretty famous (http://www.8notes.com/images/artists/elvis-presley.jpg)

Ms Monroe's generally remember for this one (http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/associated%20press_marilyn_monroe_seven_yr_itch_L.jpg)

Mandela (http://www.noutopia.com/Resources/person_nelson_mandela_in_prison.jpg)

Need a WWI, though to be fair I'm struggling to think of an individual iconic image.

Chuinck Bear (spelling?) would go down nicely.

Forsakia, here's a classic WWI photo - a British soldier in a captured German trench:

http://www.collectinghistory.net/trench.jpg

There are more iconic Fall of the Berlin Wall photos than that, I think he just grabbed one.

Has anyone ever seen the captured Saddam photo? How did that make it?
What about this (http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/saddamstatue.jpg)

And I know they are missing another old black and white one but I forgot what it was while going through them to look for it.

Here's "Mission Accomplished" to go with the toppling Saddam statue, Pantless:

http://roadkillrefugee.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/mission-accomplished.png

Better than "lunch atop a skyscraper," I like this Empire State Building pic:

http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/Icarus.jpeg
"Icarus"

This is a photo that has always haunted me, of a Spanish Civil War soldier being shot - the photo was taken by the great Robert Capa. Apparently some people argued that the photo was "staged" but Capa's other negatives apparently refute this allegation:
http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/editordetail.php?id=198

More info on this photo and on Capa generally:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/robert-capa/in-love-and-war/47/

The ones of the "smiling" Chinaman enduring the "death by a thousand cuts" method of execution. Remarkable if he really was happy, but oddly powerful either way. I won't link to it, obviously.

Take a gander. Are there any that you haven't seen before?
I'd say about half of them were new to me, actually. Most of the ones I've already seen I've seen from history classes.