01. Afghan Girl [1984]
Photographer: Steve McCurry
And of course the afghan girl, picture shot by National Geographic
photographer Steve McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an
informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the
opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and
captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time. She
made it on the cover of National Geographic next year, and her identity
was discovered in 1992.
02. Omayra Sánchez [1985]
Photographer: Frank Fournier
Omayra Sánchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz
(Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old
had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days. The picture was taken
shortly before she died and it caused controversy due to the
photographer’s work and the Colombian government’s inaction in the midst
of the tragedy, when it was published worldwide after the young girl’s
death.
03. Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]
Photograph from: Yousuf Karsh
This photograph was taken by Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer,
when Winston Churchill came to Ottawa. The portrait of Churchill brought
Karsh international fame. It is claimed to be the most reproduced
photographic portrait in history. It also appeared on the cover of Life
magazine.
04. The plight of Kosovo refugees [1999]
Photographer: Carol Guzy
The photo is part of The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed
through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run
by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala
family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.
05. Stricken child crawling towards a food camp [1994]
Photographer: Kevin Carter
The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him.
This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the
child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as
soon as the photograph was taken.
Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
06. Segregated Water Fountains [1950]
Photographer: Elliott Erwitt, Magnum Photos
Picture of segregated water fountains in North Carolina taken by Elliott Erwitt.
07. Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation [1963]
Photographer: Malcolm Browne
June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned
himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring
attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that
controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time. Buddhist monks
asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist
flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop
detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to
practice and spread their religion.
While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.
08. Bliss [~2000]
Photographer: Charles O’Rear
Bliss is the name of a photograph of a landscape in Napa County,
California, east of Sonoma Valley. It contains rolling green hills and a
blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the
default computer wallpaper for the “Luna” theme in Windows XP.
The photograph was taken by the professional photographer Charles
O’Rear, a resident of St. Helena in Napa County, for digital-design
company HighTurn. O’Rear has also taken photographs of Napa Valley for
the May 1979 National Geographic Magazine article Napa, Valley of the
Vine.
O’Rear’s photograph inspired Windows XP’s US$ 200 million advertising campaign Yes you can.
09. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]
Photographer: International Ladies Garmet workers Union
Picture of bodies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Company rules
were to keep doors closed to the factory so workers (mostly immigrant
women) couldn’t leave or steal. When a fire ignited, disaster struck.
146 people died
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