What is the greatest photo of all time?

[partygirluk]

Or just, post a great photo. Sorry to be anal, but please don't post gross out or hot lady photos, they have their place, but in a different thread. I am looking for photos with "wow" factor.

I don't know how to post images, but if someone could this for me, I would be grateful. My vote goes to a photo from Vietnam. Some young Vietnamese man is being shot by a general. The photo is taken as the photo is halfway through his head. It entered via the right hand side of his body, but you can see that it his left hand side of his body that is dead, whilst the right hand side seems normal.

[dr. klopek]

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Photo_Decade_of_Collecting/images/1.R.jpg

I like this photo a lot, it was taken in 1850 by Gustave Le Gray. It's from a negative on salt paper or something, the first time I saw it I thought it was a drawing.

[rusellmj]

This one?

http://www.treefort.org/~cbdoten/rvntanks/sp071632.jpg

[partygirluk]

It looks much better blown up, the difference between the two halfs of his body is much more evident.

Of course, this is not all down to brilliant photography. The timing involved is incredibly lucky. Still, "Wow".

[pshreck]

I've seen this photo numerous times, and I don't think that half of his body is dead... I think that this is what a face would like whenever a bullet would enter from that side, for not just an instant but a little longer.

[Dynasty]

This was one which came to mind. Although, I don't rate it as the greatest.

It's a polaroid take by Mary Moorman at the exact moment President Kennedy is struck in the head.

The famous grassy knoll and picket fence are in the background. The photograph has been used by both sides of the Kennedy assassination debate to support and debunk arguements.

http://www.koelle.dk/pictures/MOORMAN_PICTURE.JPG

[rusellmj]

BTW, this was actually captured on color video (film) also. Suffice it to say a fountain of blood comes out when he hits the deck.

Russ

[VBM]

this is the one i thought of; it's not "great" in any edifying sense, but I think it's one that is haunting and memorable...

[partygirluk]

How come there is a massive fingerprint mark on it?

[dr. klopek]

http://www.tombofjesus.com/duc1.jpg

[partygirluk]

There is an oft used photo of a Chinese student defiant in the face of a procession of tanks in Tianamenn square that will stick forever in my mind. This might be vidoe footage though.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0107/tiananmen.jpg

[PoBoy321]

This one?
http://www.rollins.edu/history/Web%20Pictures/Tiananmen%20Square%202.jpg

[pshreck]

[ QUOTE ]
There is an oft used photo of a Chinese student defiant in the face of a procession of tanks in Tianamenn square that will stick forever in my mind.

[/ QUOTE ]

That photo is all about symbolism, but the student does run out of the way shortly after the tank approaches... something that is so often overlooked about that picture.

If you want to read something interesting on the power of a photo, read "Flags of our Fathers". It is about the famous Iwo Jima flag photo, and how it affected the lives of the soldiers in it. It also gives some truth about the photo that wasn't expressed for many years.

[dr. klopek]

http://espn-i.starwave.com/classic/2000/0918/photo/l_aliliston_i.jpg

[partygirluk]

http://www.iw3p.com/DailyPundit/concamp.jpg

[Dynasty]

Another great sports photo (sorry I couldn't find a better version)

http://www.ushockeyhall.com/80team/80-4.jpg

[mmbt0ne]

http://www.sfo.com/~csuppes/NHL/BostonBruins/orr.gif

[dr. klopek]

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Japan/Hiroshima/AtomicBombMuseum/IndividualArtifacts/BoyWithBurnedBack.jpg

There was another one that I wanted to post, but I couldn't find it, it's one of the versions of the cover for "Things fall Apart," by The Roots. This is a kid from Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

[BusterStacks]

http://www.kold-fire.net/images/haha/owned.jpg

[PokerCat69]

[ QUOTE ]

There was another one that I wanted to post, but I couldn't find it, it's one of the versions of the cover for "Things fall Apart," by The Roots. This is a kid from Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

[/ QUOTE ]

That pic is a tad gross and the 'greatest photo' thread was supposed to exclude gross and hot women photos.

[Clarkmeister]

http://www.halloffamememorabilia.com/images/products/alou-16x20-bartmanmed.jpg

[PoBoy321]

Granted, they're hot women, but still, wow.

http://www.minid.net/archivos/kiss.jpg

[partygirluk]

That kind of photo is fine for this thread. It is exquisite.

[BusterStacks]

[ QUOTE ]
That kind of photo is fine for this thread. It is exquisite.

[/ QUOTE ]

[Dynasty]

http://www.xedmoc.com/cognoscenti/gallery/images/bigfoot_006.jpg

[Cubswin]

http://www.wbur.org/photogallery/op_sontag/images/1.jpg

[private joker]

It's not even close.

http://img168.exs.cx/img168/6762/bestpictureever4mx.jpg

[partygirluk]

Unless it is ultra obvious, please provide a brief background to the photo in your post.

[dr. klopek]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]

There was another one that I wanted to post, but I couldn't find it, it's one of the versions of the cover for "Things fall Apart," by The Roots. This is a kid from Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

[/ QUOTE ]
That pic is a tad gross and the 'greatest photo' thread was supposed to exclude gross and hot women photos.

[/ QUOTE ]

The "wow factor" clause makes it permissable. It is quite a bit more affecting than any sports photo.

[Jezebel]

http://www.iwojima.com/raising/lflage.gif

[BOTW]

Most mentioned are awesome.

http://home.comcast.net/~genuinejon/firstphoto.jpg link (http://home.comcast.net/~genuinejon/firstphoto.jpg)
The first photo. Dude couldn't draw, but he took this to all his artist buddies and was like "Wazzup, bitches! I rule!"

http://home.comcast.net/~genuinejon/adamsmoonrise.jpg linky (http://home.comcast.net/~genuinejon/adamsmoonrise.jpg)
http://home.comcast.net/~genuinejon/hubble.jpg link (http://home.comcast.net/~genuinejon/hubble.jpg)
Anything by Ansel Adams or the Hubble makes me think "Wow!"

[Dynasty]

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=apollo+earth+rise/v=2/SID=e/l=IVI/SIG=131uof71o/EXP=1107233914/*-http%3A//take-sa506.hp.infoseek.co.jp/apollo/wallpaper/as11446551_1280x1024.jpg

[Clarkmeister]

Winner.

[partygirluk]

A friend sent me this photo of their Granddaughter, who is 13 months old. She can not talk much, but her parents are teaching her some sign language. She pants like a puppy to represent a dog.

http://www.davidphoto.ca/media/portraits/jennie/doggie1.jpg

The father is a professional photographer. I think this photo is simply wonderful.

[partygirluk]

WOW.
Does anyone know a way I can get that as a poster, or framed photo?

[emonrad87]

Sponger's room:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Sponger15aa/Room4.jpg

[Joe Tall]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/joetall/snow/VegasBoys.jpg

This one of my friends and brother at a Vegas wedding that I took.

-JoeTall

[pubz r 4 nubz!]

http://www.obleek.com/stuff/ww2ol/pwned/pwned1.jpg

[sthief09]

reminds me of Reservoir Dogs outside the diner for some reason

[partygirluk]

That photo is fantastic. How come it is in black and white?

[ThaSaltCracka]

I really like that picture dynasty.

[Edge34]

[ QUOTE ]
reminds me of Reservoir Dogs outside the diner for some reason

[/ QUOTE ]

Exactly. Freaking cool.

[Joe Tall]

That photo is fantastic. How come it is in black and white?

It wasn't originally but I think the photo deserved it. My brother is the tall one in the middle behind my roomate. My roomate is the brother of the groom and he is in the background w/the black shirt on. They did wear ties and handkerchiefs (sp?) of the Scottish Kilts of the family.

[fsuplayer]

[ QUOTE ]
Sponger's room:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/Sponger15aa/Room4.jpg

[/ QUOTE ]

that is freakin gross.

[wacki]

http://www.union.edu/Gallery/images/nikon1.jpg

This won the Nikon Small world competition.

[ThaSaltCracka]

http://www.cbox.cz/tomas_psika/tornada/tornado.jpg

Mt. St. Helens
http://www.nhoem.state.nh.us/mitigation/Mt%20St%20Helens%20wo%20Frame.jpg

http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/images/aurora8.jpg


nature rules!!!!!!!!!


Here is one man made one, a sonic boom.
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/OddPics/Images/sonicboom.jpg

[mmbt0ne]

It's not so much a single picture that I can post here, but I always go wow everytime I look at it.

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

Here's one screenshot I took from it.

http://www.f2f2s.com/images/everest.jpg

[bernie]

[ QUOTE ]
That photo is all about symbolism, but the student does run out of the way shortly after the tank approaches... something that is so often overlooked about that picture

[/ QUOTE ]

Also remember that many chinese history books deny this event in their history happened.

b

[mmbt0ne]

2 more that are really good, only because of how they work with each other.


Nice wave
http://www.f2f2s.com/images/camp01L.jpg


Devil wave
http://www.f2f2s.com/images/camp02L.jpg

[wacki]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/packageart/mugshots/ojmug.jpg

[theBruiser500]

TSC I really like yours, beautiful. What is devil wave?

[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
TSC I really like yours, beautiful. What is devil wave?

[/ QUOTE ]that last one is sweet though, eh? Pure luck that the photographer captured that.

[theBruiser500]

actually, my favorites were the nature ones /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[mmbt0ne]

</font><blockquote><font class="small">En réponse à:</font><hr />
What is devil wave?

[/ QUOTE ]

It's just the first way I thought of to describe it. It's such a nasty wave, with like 4 shelves (is that the phrase Sponger? I'm an idiot) and all those undulations. I just love the fact that it's the same guy on two waves in almost the same setting that are so amazingly different.

[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
actually, my favorites were the nature ones /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[/ QUOTE ]dude, nothing beats nature, I agree, I like the last one too though, just really cool picture. The first three are sort of awe inspiring, the last one is sort of like a "OH [censored]!" type thing

[colson10]

This is a Galen Rowell photo, all of his stuff is pretty amazing, but this is his most famous. It's the Dalai Lama's palace.
http://mountainlight.com/AA-images/aa_0019_480.jpg

colson10

[andyfox]

The famous picture of the Wright Bros. first successful flight.

[mmbt0ne]

</font><blockquote><font class="small">En réponse à:</font><hr />
This is a Galen Rowell photo, all of his stuff is pretty amazing, but this is his most famous. It's the Dalai Lama's palace.
http://mountainlight.com/AA-images/aa_0019_480.jpg

colson10

[/ QUOTE ]

I remember reading an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about this picture right after he died. Apparently, he wasn't anywhere near that angle and was about to take the picture. Suddenly, he thought up the idea and sprinted something like half a mile to get this angle before the rainbow disappeared.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

that has to be a cloud or somthing. Sonic booms are just built up sound waves, and last i checked you cant see sound in air.

[wacki]

That is water vapor that condensed into a cloud due to the compression wave of the sonic boom.

A.K.A. The Prandtl-Glauert singularity

[1800GAMBLER]

http://ditocujo.weblog.com.pt/ficheiros/KevinCarter.jpg

Kevin Carter.

[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
that has to be a cloud or somthing. Sonic booms are just built up sound waves, and last i checked you cant see sound in air.

[/ QUOTE ]hmmmmmmmmmmm.....I dunno man.

[Clarkmeister]

That would have been a better reply with a "hmmmmmmmmmm....." in front of it.

[partygirluk]

That is a great photo Jay. At first glance I was certain that the thing at the front was an animal. Powerful stuff.

[slickpoppa]

thats pretty disturbing

[ronzoni]

http://www.solarviews.com/raw/moon/footprnt.gif

[Zeno]

That's the one. And for a multitude of reasons.

There have been some amazing photos taken with the Hubble Telescope. One of the horse head nebula is pure awe. I am too lazy to find the link or post a photo. But they are worth looking up.

-Zeno

[Reef]

-

[Evan]

where is that?

[Zoltri]

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/7195/towerjet.jpg

[fsuplayer]

just a shot in the dark....africa?

[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
just a shot in the dark....africa?

[/ QUOTE ]hmmmmmm..... I dunno man.

[Evan]

/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
You make a good point.

I meant like was it during some specific event (war, famine, etc.). I worded it poorly I suppose.

[Clarkmeister]

well done. that avatar just screams "hmmmmmmm...."

[Duke]

http://oncedead.tripod.com/photos/belmont73.jpg

~D

[PoBoy321]

Since when does "greatest" mean "most depressing"? This thread is turning into one of the world's biggest collections of photos of death and catastrophe.

Just my $.02.

[Reef]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/reef/sklansky.jpg

do you see why?

[Duke]

[ QUOTE ]
Since when does "greatest" mean "most depressing"? This thread is turning into one of the world's biggest collections of photos of death and catastrophe.

[/ QUOTE ]

That's why I jumped in with the Secretariat Belmont pic. If that one made anyone cry it wasn't out of sadness.

~D

[youtalkfunny]

(I tried to post a pic of Sailor kissing Nurse in Times Square on VJ Day, but I suck at the internet.)

BTW, Duke, the Secretariat pic isn't here. But go ahead and post a bunch of them. My fav's feature the perplexed look on the jock's face, as he can't figure out where all the other horses went!

[kemystery]

surely not the greatest, but worth mentioning

http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/pinkfloydwallpaper.jpg

[Duke]

[ QUOTE ]
BTW, Duke, the Secretariat pic isn't here. But go ahead and post a bunch of them. My fav's feature the perplexed look on the jock's face, as he can't figure out where all the other horses went!

[/ QUOTE ]

I can't find it, and I know the one you mean. This was as close as I could find.

~D

[kemystery]

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~yair_k/cool%20stuff/un_need%20money.jpg

[housenuts]

what the hell??

http://members.shaw.ca/chowder/nofood.jpg

[AncientPC]

http://img187.exs.cx/img187/4621/wtcsite1sd.jpg

The original I have is 9372x9372 @ 14.0MB.

[plaster8]

[ QUOTE ]
http://espn-i.starwave.com/classic/2000/0918/photo/l_aliliston_i.jpg

[/ QUOTE ]

There's a great documentary on HBO (might be OnDemand, I don't know) about sports photography and how the photogs got some of the best shots in sports history. This photo is included. I'll post the title of the documentary if I can find it, but it's definitely worth watching.

[nicky g]

Sorry if it has been posted before, I didn't fancy wading through the incredibly original efforts of theposters who think posting tubgirl for the umpteen millionth time is hilarious at work, but this is probably at the top of a lot of lists:

http://www.henricartierbresson.org/hcb/redimg/photo.jpg

[partygirluk]

This is by Leni Riefenstahl, director of the brilliant Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will". She found work hard to come by after the war, but went to Africa and took some breathtaking photos. This photo is breathtaking blown up. These womens' bodies look like a Michaelangelo sculpture.

http://www.fashion.at/foto/riefenstahl12-2002d.jpg

[Clarkmeister]

http://i6.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/38/ag/ca_1_b.JPG

[Zoltri]

I was looking for that famous photo from the Sioux City plane crash when the fireman was carrying the baby.
No where to be found.

[Aces McGee]

Am I remembering correctly that the photographer who took this picture committed suicide at least in part because of it, or is my memory from college failing me?

My recollection is that this was a Pulitzer winning photo, and the photographer received a lot of criticism for taking the photo, instead of helping the child (which probably would have been a bad idea, given the risk of disease). At any rate, if memory serves, the criticism got to him and he fell into depression and ended up killing himself.

-McGee

[jdl22]

[ QUOTE ]
I was looking for that famous photo from the Sioux City plane crash when the fireman was carrying the baby.
No where to be found.

[/ QUOTE ]

You aren't talking about this are you? It's from the Oklahoma City bombing:
http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/images/00000049.gif

[cnfuzzd]

http://www.iphotoart.com/isroot/iphotoart/SiteImages/productimg/APA4087355.jpg

http://www.iphotoart.com/isroot/iphotoart/SiteImages/roductimg/APA6170984.jpg


http://www.iphotoart.com/isroot/iphotoart/SiteImages/productimg/APA2699652.jpg

http://silverscreensirens.com/galleries/cgi-bin/getpic.cgi?aud34&amp;jpg



peace

john nickle

[1800GAMBLER]

Yep (http://www.fotoartmagazine.gr/02_AGGLIKO/PHOTOGRPHY/HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY/GREATEST%20PHOTOGRAPHERS/C/Kevin_Carter.htm)

[theredwave]

Astronomy picture (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040925.html)

Other Astronomy Pics (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html)

[cnfuzzd]

hey, im special, four pics, not one of them posted correctly.

peace

john nickle

[ronzoni]

http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/images/Gregraymerwsopchampframe.jpg

[Daliman]

[ QUOTE ]
That is water vapor that condensed into a cloud due to the compression wave of the sonic boom.

A.K.A. The Prandtl-Glauert singularity

[/ QUOTE ]


Well, duh....

[Daliman]

[ QUOTE ]
http://ditocujo.weblog.com.pt/ficheiros/KevinCarter.jpg

Kevin Carter.

[/ QUOTE ]

Wow, does this photo make me feel like [censored].

[Number4]

While maybe not the coolest, I really like these two.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/UFNumber4/Picture34.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/UFNumber4/Picture32.jpg

[Daliman]

[ QUOTE ]
While maybe not the coolest, I really like these two.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/UFNumber4/Picture34.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/UFNumber4/Picture32.jpg

[/ QUOTE ]
First one is a fake.

[Daliman]

What about that picture of the guy tied up to 2 seperate trees that was in the "we didn't Start the fire" video? I believe it was on for an extended period just after he sings "trouble in the suez"

[Clarkmeister]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/sarah02/scared53770.jpg

[Aces McGee]

There's an interesting story behind this one, too. The guy who took the picture was named Eddie Adams, and he regretted taking it, because he felt it unfairly portrayed the South Vietnamese police chief shown executing the handcuffed Viet Cong.

I did an quick search and found that Adams refused to display this photo in his studio, despite winning a Pulitzer for it. "Sometimes a picture can be misleading because it does not tell the whole story. I don't say what he did was right, but he was fighting a war and he was up against some pretty bad people."

-McGee

[kipin]

This one is pretty good

http://img169.exs.cx/img169/3355/soccerkidflicking7ik.jpg

[partygirluk]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0303/v838mon_hst_fulldec.jpg

[luckyharr]

&lt;img src="http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Kittinger/EX31G4.jpg"&gt;

photo of highest altitude jump (over 100,000 feet)

[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
&lt;img src="http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Kittinger/EX31G4.jpg"&gt;

photo of highest altitude jump (over 100,000 feet)

[/ QUOTE ]


http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Kittinger/EX31G4.jpg

[eastbay]

That picture doesn't do that justice. From another angle which I've seen in video, the guy is in outer space more or less, you can see the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth. Totally spine tingling to watch him jump from there.

eastbay

[ThaSaltCracka]

I would love to see the vid.

[daryn]

http://www.aao.gov.au/images/image/aat015.jpg


helix nebula

[rusellmj]

I've seen the vid on a sports show. Pretty amazing. A few people have died trying to duplicate the jump.

Russ

[Rick Nebiolo]

[ QUOTE ]
Or just, post a great photo. Sorry to be anal, but please don't post gross out or hot lady photos, they have their place, but in a different thread. I am looking for photos with "wow" factor.

I don't know how to post images, but if someone could this for me, I would be grateful. My vote goes to a photo from Vietnam. Some young Vietnamese man is being shot by a general. The photo is taken as the photo is halfway through his head. It entered via the right hand side of his body, but you can see that it his left hand side of his body that is dead, whilst the right hand side seems normal.

[/ QUOTE ]

I haven't looked through the responses in this thread but I think you might have seen a still shot taken from a TV clip. I thought of this first but remember another (that was a photo) of a little girl running down the street naked crying in agony after a naplam attack. That was powerful.

~ Rick

[Rick Nebiolo]

This was the one I was thinking of in my post below. Should have browsed the responses first.

~ Rick