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40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken
BuzzFeed ^ | May 30, 2012 | Jack Shepherd

Posted on 06/03/2012 11:26:48 AM PDT by EveningStar

A moving collection of iconic photographs from the last 100 years that demonstrate the heartbreak of loss, the tremendous power of loyalty, and the triumph of the human spirit.

(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society
KEYWORDS: photography
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To: EveningStar

Yeah, it seemed like it got better as the list wore on.

I have never heard of the the Himmler/POW incident.


21 posted on 06/03/2012 11:49:36 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Fat, drunk and stupid = Dumb, dependent, and Democrat)
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To: dfwgator

The picture with Margaret Thatcher at Reagan’s casket still brings a tear to my eye.


22 posted on 06/03/2012 11:49:54 AM PDT by mrpotatohead
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To: al baby

That’s my all time favorite. VP Cheney reminds me of Father Merrin (The Exorcist) who knows what we’re dealing with here.


23 posted on 06/03/2012 11:51:35 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
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To: Lazamataz

Maureen Dowd is one fine looking women


24 posted on 06/03/2012 11:51:54 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes indeed he knew like most of us knew


25 posted on 06/03/2012 11:54:13 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: moonshot925
Stalingrad

Polish AK soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising


26 posted on 06/03/2012 11:55:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar

Sentimentalism. Maybe cheap, maybe not.


27 posted on 06/03/2012 11:56:34 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Tzimisce

Baloney.

Near the end of the photos is one of an 8 year old accepting the flag at the funeral of his dead Marine father. It tore me apart.

Not liberal,not conservative,just heartbreaking.


28 posted on 06/03/2012 11:57:32 AM PDT by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost


Have we forgotten?
29 posted on 06/03/2012 11:57:55 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

my favorite too, Cheney would have been agreat President.


30 posted on 06/03/2012 11:58:55 AM PDT by cajungirl
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To: EveningStar

Best one is number 40: Earthrise. Puts a bit of perspective on things...


31 posted on 06/03/2012 11:59:10 AM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: Tzimisce

Did you look before popping off?


32 posted on 06/03/2012 11:59:44 AM PDT by cajungirl
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To: al baby

No, that is not Maureen Dowd. This is the woman Maureen Dowd lost her fiance, Michael Douglass, to.


33 posted on 06/03/2012 12:02:25 PM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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To: EveningStar
And this one didn't make it?

34 posted on 06/03/2012 12:02:25 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Good catch.. Those are powerful indeed.


35 posted on 06/03/2012 12:10:32 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: al baby

Cheney knew exactly what 0mugabe is. Bush looks ss though he’s holding in laughter. Why didn’t any of them say anything.


36 posted on 06/03/2012 12:12:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: EveningStar
For a collection of the most iconic photos of the last 100 years, I thought it was pretty biased in favour of only the last few years. And I don't recall seeing anything from the Vietnam era, apart from the one "flower power" one. No burning Kim Phuc running down the road? No evacuation of Saigon? Like or hate Vietnam-era politics, there's no denying the visual impact of those photos.

For that matter, where were the mushroom clouds? Astronauts on the moon?

37 posted on 06/03/2012 12:13:20 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: EveningStar
Lots of American ones I would have included, but I can think of a few foreign ones that I would have picked long before most of those. Among those are Yeltsin standing on the tank during the Soviet coup attempt, the pictures of Neda Agha-Soltan dying after being shot by the Iranian paramilitary and any number of pictures of people escaping over the Berlin Wall (or even one of the shots of the Wall being torn down).

Far too many of the forty were people weeping at coffins or graves, and I think they lost some of their power from repetition. And three of the forty were dogs being reunited with their owners? Pick one (or none) and that opens up two more slots.

38 posted on 06/03/2012 12:16:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: EveningStar

39 posted on 06/03/2012 12:17:03 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Revolting cat!

Sentimentalism? Maybe, but there comes a time in most lives when sentimental memories invoked by timely photos becomes a major part of life. When you can no longer go out and make new memories you tend to value the old ones more.

You’ll see — if you live long enough.


40 posted on 06/03/2012 12:17:39 PM PDT by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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