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Interesting Photography.

Postby Nicktalopia » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:10 am

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1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

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January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

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1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

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1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

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1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

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1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

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February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.

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1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.

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1973. A few seconds before Chile's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

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1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

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1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

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February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

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1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.

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1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

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1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

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1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

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1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

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1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola.

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2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.

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2002. Soldiers and villagers in Iran are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried.

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2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child
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Re: Interesting Photography.

Postby [IN]Head-Kay » Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:03 pm

:( Some really saddening and inspiring stuff in here, love it!

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Re: Interesting Photography.

Postby maDJam » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:11 pm

Most of these pictures are from the official "world press photo" group-

I've been buying their yearbooks from 1992-2008

http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/

it's the best of the best pictures ever taken-
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Postby ziz00_909 » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:25 pm

:cry: only if we'd learn from this :(
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Re: Interesting Photography.

Postby e-sam » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:50 pm

All the above pictures have a point in common that is "HUMANS ARE THE MOST EVIL CREATURES ON THIS PLANET".
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Re: Interesting Photography.

Postby TranceFusion » Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:11 pm

^ Sad truth indeed... humans are cruel... if a tournament in cruelty was organized among all species, humans would end up winning all the editions from first till 1000. Champions of evil...
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Re: Interesting Photography.

Postby samer » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:57 pm

thanks nick for this interesting spot on real life. sad but true!
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