Pictures That Say 1000 Words (some graphic)

[jjbrr]

So I have an imageshack account with a bunch of pictures posted on a different forum on the topic in the title. Mostly they're famous pictures from history, some are just remarkable photography, and some are just random but certainly provoke some thought.

 

I'll start by posting some of the historical ones for people to identify/discuss, and if the thread gets good discussion and participation, I'll post more, some of which depict some graphic content.

 

I hope this thread isnt a big failure, and I hope others will contribute pictures that are meaningful to them or that generate conversation.

 

If mods find the content in this thread inappropriate, I apologize. My intent wasn't to offend anyone, but merely to take a journey through the human world via photography.

 

If you're interested, I can find captions for some of the pictures.

 

Have fun trying to recognize the people/places.

 

1. http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/8269/35522743.jpg

 

2. http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5775/45729683.jpg

 

3. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9284/18577640.jpg

 

4. http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/7490/55865602.jpg

 

5. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5436/74071730.jpg

 

6. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1083/22619609.jpg

 

7. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/408/46053180.jpg

 

8. http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5563/83058466.jpg

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9. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8876/11422373.jpg

 

10. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2880/20372278.jpg

 

11. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3967/77596906.jpg

 

12. http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/7232/72251648.jpg

 

13. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9004/50103827.jpg

 

14. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4184/28321827.jpg

 

15. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6290/88834264.jpg

 

16. http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/6839/11242895.jpg

 

17. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/603/69226426.jpg

 

18. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8537/97161199.jpg

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19. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5425/63891870.jpg

 

20. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2728/64753820.jpg

 

21. http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9776/23420098.jpg

 

22. http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/439/69874589.jpg

 

23. http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1278/32779094.jpg

 

24. http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3738/40576084.jpg

 

25. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1579/41830212.jpg

 

26. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9776/64075055.jpg

 

27. http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/6020/43664637.jpg

 

28. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/8181/32709493.jpg

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29. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9601/87577044.jpg

 

30. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2213/27193966.jpg

 

31. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/194/68387268.jpg

 

32. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6416/75375588.jpg

 

33. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4503/67277157.jpg

 

34. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/5015/79586300.jpg

 

35. http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/1639/94994408.png

 

More later if this thread takes off.

[blackshoe]

5. Promontory Point, Utah, 18something, 1st transcontinental railroad, the "golden spke" ceremony.

7. US soldiers in WWII, N Africa, Sicily, or southern Italy, I think.

8. Black Power salute, 1972 or 76 Olympics.

10. Adlai Stevenson

12. New Orleans after Katrina.

13. Spacewalk.

14. Looks like San Francisco. Don't know the occasion.

15. Nazi Salute, 1936 Olympics.

16. Not sure if that's Rosa Parks, or the first black student in a white school in Birmingham, AL.

17. Some road in Switzerland. If I remember correctly, it figured prominently in at least one James Bond flick.

22. Presenting the flag to the son of a fallen comrade.

26. Albert Einstein and... Neils Bohr

28. Tiananmen Square.

29. "My God, it's full of stars!"

 

 

All off the top of my head, some are pure guesses.

[Aberlour10]

7. US soldiers in WWII, N Africa, Sicily, or southern Italy, I think.

I am pretty sure these are Israeli soldiers at the Wall in Jerusalem 1967

 

9) USA victory over the Sovjet Union at the Winter Olympics 1980

 

11) Joe Kittinger

 

19) Rio

 

35) Tschetschenia or Georgia

 

6) if not an american event.....maybe Versaillies Conference 1919?

 

so at the first look....

[hotShot]

Isn't that Einstein in the middle of 6?

[blackshoe]

7. US soldiers in WWII, N Africa, Sicily, or southern Italy, I think.

I am pretty sure these are Israeli soldiers at the Wall in Jerusalem 1967

Could be. On second look, that does look like it might be a wall behind them.

Isn't that Einstein in the middle of 6?

Yep.

[bb79]

#6 is from 1927 Solvay conference, there are many famous physicists there.

 

I am interested in the story behind #31.

[Lobowolf]

8. Black Power salute, 1972 or 76 Olympics.

Mexico City, '68

[Hanoi5]

1. Is that Hemingway?

2. Charles Manson?

3. Some nuclear facility? Chernobyl?

15. The Nazi came in third behind 2 black guys?

[Aberlour10]

15. The Nazi came in third behind 2 black guys?

Its the long jump medal ceremony

 

1 Jesse Owens/USA

2 Luz Long / Germany

3 Naoto Tajima / Japan

[Winstonm]

#26 Meckwell discussing system notes.

#31 The Firestarter

#28 The Governator addressing the troops on the Ventura Freeway

[jjbrr]

Uploading about 20 more pics, then I'll provide some captions assuming I can still find them.

 

I'm sorry I don't know the story behind the girl in front of the burning house. I speculate that she has simply been conditioned to smile when she's in a photograph. But she realizes that she shouldn't really be smiling. Just my thought.

[jjbrr]

1. Is that Hemingway?

2. Charles Manson?

3. Some nuclear facility? Chernobyl?

15. The Nazi came in third behind 2 black guys?

1. Not Hemingway. I'll post an explanation and an additional picture to go with it.

 

2. Manson.

 

3. Chernobyl is right.

 

16. Hazel Bryant - Another Landmark Image - It was the fourth school year since segregation had been outlawed by the Supreme Court. Things were not going well, and some southerners accused the national press of distorting matters. This picture, however, gave irrefutable testimony, as Elizabeth Eckford strides through a gauntlet of white students, including Hazel Bryant (mouth open the widest), on her way to Little Rock's Central High.

[jjbrr]

29. Blows my mind. This image is the furthest into space we've ever seen before, almost every little smear is a galaxy which contains up to 1 trillion stars.

[jjbrr]

36. http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/3691/wtcs.jpg

 

37. http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5968/42303646.jpg

 

38. http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/73/64160913.jpg

 

39. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9173/revolutiond.jpg

 

40. http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/5476/prisoner.jpg

 

41. http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2719/prisoni.jpg

 

42. http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3117/polaru.jpg

 

43. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2594/moonh.jpg

 

44. http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3027/livingz.jpg

 

45. http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3848/kentstate.jpg

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46. http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/9923/hindenburgq.gif

 

47. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2791/goata.jpg

 

48. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3950/fountain.jpg

 

49. http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2130/cokej.jpg

 

50. http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7122/cloud.jpg

 

51. http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5960/cliff.jpg

 

52. http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/8092/birmingham.jpg

 

53. http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9601/armyr.jpg

 

54. http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2647/annefrankr.jpg

 

55. http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1300/88254773.jpg

[jjbrr]

6. Solvay Conference 1927, with an impressive list of attendees who went on to collect 17 Nobel prizes.

 

BACK: A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, Ed. Herzen, Th. De Donder, E. Schrödinger, J.E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin;

MIDDLE: P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr;

FRONT: I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch. E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, O.W. Richardson

 

7. This is a photo of paratroopers reaching the "western Wall" in Jerusalem at the culmination of the "6 Day War" probably the most amazing war story of modern times. Jewish or not its a great read. Wiki page.

 

10. On the night of January 24, 1950, one of the most amazing photographs of all time was taken in the Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, Texas. As William Branham (an influential Bible minister sometimes credited with founding the Latter Rain Movement within American Pentecostal churches) stood at the podium, a halo of fire appeared above his head. This picture was the only one that turned out on the entire film! George J. Lacy, Investigator of Questioned Documents, and often hired by the FBI in that capacity, subjected the negative to every scientific test available. At a news conference, he stated, “To my knowledge, this is the first time in all the world’s history that a supernatural being has been photographed and scientifically vindicated.” The original of this photograph is kept in the archives of the Religious Department of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

 

11. On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere.

 

12. On August the 29th Katrina hit Louisiana, most notably New Orleans where 80% of the city flooded because the flood protection system was breached in more than fifty places. The hurricane caused over $80 billion in damages and over 1800 people were confirmed to have died with over 700 missing.

 

13. At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space walk" during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. The MMU works by shooting jets of nitrogen and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit. The MMU was replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit.

 

50. A gigantic cloud of dust, called a haboob, advances toward Khartoum, Sudan, in April. Seasonal haboobs can reach as high as 3,000 feet.

[jjbrr]

1. This is a picture of Sir Ernest Shackleton, an explorer who was one of the principal explorers during the "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration" circa 1900. His wiki page can be found here.

 

Wiki: "After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Shackleton turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying—the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole. To this end he made preparations for what became the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17. Disaster struck this expedition when its ship, Endurance, was trapped in pack ice and slowly crushed, before the shore parties could be landed. There followed a sequence of exploits, and an ultimate escape with no lives lost, that would eventually assure Shackleton's heroic status, although this was not immediately evident."

 

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8814/44007608.jpg

[PassedOut]

45. Kent State, May 4, 1970

46. Explosion of the Hindenburg, Lakehurst, NJ, May 6, 1937

54. Anne Frank, May, 1942

[jjbrr]

Any objections to posting some pictures that the average person can't look at without getting emotional? I've got some, but not many.

[ggwhiz]

1. Scott on the Antartica expedition? ( Well, I got the continent right)

 

18. After the Exxon Valdez?

 

26. Looks right for Meckwell.

[gwnn]

17 is

Transfagaras from Romania?

 

 

43 is inside a well-crafted studio in Houston TX :)

[Hanoi5]

42 is the meaning of life. I mean, what is 42 about? I thought those bears were 'wild'.

 

Remember you can post anything that you would send your grandmother in an e-mail. Other than that, ask the moderators.

 

By the way in 48, is the water from the colored fountain coming from the discarded water of the white?