Topic: Pictures that stir the soul

Any photos that wrench your gut or make your heart soar?

this one always gets to me - as does the song by CSNY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kent_State_massacre.jpg

~ Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ~
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that photo of the little girl with her clothes blow off covered in blood, veitnam war i think,

also the person standing in from of the tanks in tieninin (sp?) square

You mean:

Phan Thị Kim Phúc?

and

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?

I can think of a few but cannot find them right now

both great photos...here's another one which i find haunting

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0410/images/faas_execution.jpg

~ Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ~
http://www.sleepingwolves.com/

yeah kimson those ones

German occupation of Paris:


Russian occupation of Berlin:


Einstein and Szilárd create letter encouraging Roosevelt to develop nuclear weapons in response to possibility of German development (recreated):


Oppenheimer:


First (fission) nuclear bomb explosion, over two months after victory declared over Germany:


First (fusion) nuclear bomb explosion, during Korean War:


Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc self-immolates in protest of religious oppression and Vietnam War:


Chernobyl, abandoned since the three-year-old and latest of four nearby nuclear fission reactors suffered an explosive meltdown:


(Edited by reisio on 11-10-2006 06:16)