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A single photograph contains so many emotions. It tells us so many stories. We start imagining the story behind that picture. Some photos are so strong that they make us take actions against soo many problems which the world is currently facing while some other photos make us CRY, and HAPPY at the same time. Here are some of the "Most Powerful Photos"
1.
Aylan Kurdi’s Picture
A young Syrian boy, who drowned in his family’s attempt to reach Greece from Turkey, lies in the surf near Bodrum, Turkey. This Picture moved everyone around the world and made us think about the conditions that are arising in Syria and Neighboring countries.
John F.
Kennedy Jr. salutes his father at JFK’s November 1963 state funeral. This is one of the most heartbreaking picture where we see Famous american president's son saluting him at state funeral.
Robert
Capa captures a soldier emerging from the waters on D-Day.
In 2007,
Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
Gurrola served as a medic near Ramadi.
1965’s
“How Life Begins” is one of the first pictures taken with the endoscope.
Bronze
medal winner John Carlos raises a black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City
Olympics.
Famous
Influential Photographs: Crowds gather at the decrepit Berlin Wall in November,
1989.
1961
Hans Conrad Schumann jumping into West Berlin by Peter Leibing
CHILD IS STALKED BY A
VULTURE IN SUDAN
Seen as a ‘metaphor for Africa’s despair’, when this picture was
published in the New York Times in 1993 it led to hundreds of people writing in
to ask what became of the child. The image of a vulture preying upon an
emaciated toddler was taken in southern Sudan by photographer Kevin Carter, who
faced criticism for not helping the girl. Tragically, he killed himself three
months after the picture was published
VJ DAY IN TIMES
SQUARE
On August 14, 1945, as Japan surrendered at the end of the Second World
War, celebrations broke out in New York City’s Times Square. And famously,
during the VJ (Victory over Japan) Day celebrations, a sailor and a woman
embraced in a passionate kiss. Mystery surrounds the subjects in the photo,
taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Over the past 70 years, dozens of men
and women have claimed to be the pair caught in the clinch
South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan
executes a handcuffed Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot to the head
in Saigon in 1968 during the Tet Offensive. The photo, by Eddie Adams, became
one of the Vietnam War's most indelible images and would earn him a Pulitzer
Prize. The image was broadcast around the world - and such was its political
impact, it soured Americans' attitude towards the war by highlighting its
savage reality
RAISING THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA
Five US Marines and a Navy sailor were captured raising an American flag
atop Mount Suribachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in this photo
taken on February 23, 1945. It triggered a wave of national hope that Japanese
forces would soon be defeated and led to millions of Americans buying war
bonds, helping to win the Second World War
Epitomizing politics’ ability to divide as much as it unites, South Korean man sheds a tear when parting ways with his North Korean relative.
Sources:-
all-that-is-interesting.com
dailymail.co.uk
wikipedia.com
bbc.com
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