Human history captured on photo (pic heavy)

[RobinBanks]

Spanglepants said:

/\/\ Certain i read they both survived?

I'm pretty sure that's the case too.

The chilling part for me is the fact that just a few minutes later that car was in pieces and 29 people were dead or dying right there with many more injured. The street looks so normal and peaceful - it was transformed in split seconds.

It's not the only photo taken shortly before a disaster, but it's still very poignant.

[Stickyfinger]

[Boozy]

Not so much a photo but one of the first ever "graphs" of an important part of human history.

Minard was a pioneer of the use of graphics in engineering and statistics. He is most well known for his cartographic depiction of numerical data on a map of Napoleon's disastrous losses suffered during the Russian campaign of 1812 (in French, Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813). The illustration depicts Napoleon's army departing the Polish-Russian border. A thick band illustrates the size of his army at specific geographic points during their advance and retreat. It displays six types of data in two dimensions: the number of Napoleon's troops; the distance traveled; temperature; latitude and longitude; direction of travel; and location relative to specific dates.[2] This type of band graph for illustration of flows was later called a Sankey diagram, although Matthew Sankey used this visualisation 30 years later and only for thematic energy flow).

[AJS-]

Some great photos here. This one is probably a bit cliched and widely known, but it always has an effect on me.



I could write war and peace one what I find so important about this picture, but it paints many more than 1,000 words by itself.

[Eric Mc]

The image of the helicopter on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon reminded me of pictures like this - which to me symbolise the pointlessness and waste of war in general and the Vietnam War in particular -

[Watchman]

Luke Warm said:

The Histomap, 1931
4,000 years of world history

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUM...

That's brilliant. I've never seen that before.

[MysteryLemon]

AJS- said:

Some great photos here. This one is probably a bit cliched and widely known, but it always has an effect on me.



I could write war and peace one what I find so important about this picture, but it paints many more than 1,000 words by itself.

When I see that picture, I always wonder why they didn't just go round him. The road is massive :P

[onyx39]

Vyse said:

Car containing explosive device, photo taken shortly before the Omagh bombing. 15 August 1998)

I wonder how many people in the picture are still alive?

[onyx39]

That Omagh bombing picture reminds me of this, which I know turned out to be fake.



This is a fantastic thread btw, good work OP!

[IvanSTi]

Luke Warm said:

Moving day in the American suburbs, 1953

Interesting pics, but what is this one all about??

[944fan]

Stickyfinger said:

Wow, that literarily is the last chopper out of Saigon. Great pic

[onyx39]

this has got me searching for great photographs. There is some very emotive stuff out there.
Must get the cleaners to dust the office properly tonight.....

[AJS-]

MysteryLemon said:

When I see that picture, I always wonder why they didn't just go round him. The road is massive :P

There's a video which shows why - basically because the road wasn't as big as that guy's cojones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

But I still find the still pic more powerful.

[br d]

AJS- said:

There's a video which shows why - basically because the road wasn't as big as that guy's cojones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

But I still find the still pic more powerful.

The bravery of that bloke is difficult to comprehend. We can't even put ourselves in his shoes, he had grown up in a place where the party was in complete, unequivocal, unquestionable totalitarian control. The people of his generation would barely be able to think of commiting such an act of defiance.

Just a bloke coming home with his shopping.
That event should still be remembered a thousand years hence.

[Stickyfinger]

[stevesingo]

Bamyan?

Proud of that are we?

[Vyse]

[Stickyfinger]

stevesingo said:

Bamyan?

Proud of that are we?

Yes I am...its a Selfie, that's my Sunday best and I trimmed my beard for the photos.

[SkySailing]

WilsonWilson said:

First selfie - 1839


Didn't know David Morrissey was that old.

Yeah, but he died recently, remember?

[227bhp]

Posting up pics without explanations is pretty pointless.