Comments on: 12 Of The Most Iconic Photographs Ever Taken

By: Kalualei

Kalualei — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:55:10 +0000

THE DARKER SIDE OF HUMANITY … SAD BUT TRUE!! THE SUFFERING OF THE CHILDREN REALLY TUGS AT MY HEART-STRINGS … AND IT REALLY HAS NOT CHANGED THAT MUCH TODAY! WHAT HAVE WE LEARN’T FROM THE PAST?.. NOTHING!! GREED; WAR; POWER…HAS ALOT TO BE DESIRED

By: humanity eh?

humanity eh? — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:04:55 +0000

I wish I could have looked at these pictures and fully embrace the significance of human suffering without having my mind contaminated by the most ignorant people commenting on them. Thank you to all those putting in the time and effort to even attempt to correct many of these ignorant comments (bringing religion into a completely irrelevant topic, if you believe in the god bullshit or not, we can agree on freewill, this is it’s consequence). There is no room for induction when someone is using 12 pieces of empirical evidence in front of you. Amazing works of art, not iconic in my view but for sure say more than words ever could. Thanks to those (like me) who find ignorance as a pet-peeve and take the time to try to rid the world of it one comment at a time but lets be real… Some of these people are make-you-say-wow idiots.
“These were photoshopped???” hahahaha doesnt get any stupider than a comment like that :p

By: youphoto

youphoto — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:28:51 +0000

just horror

By: Toptenz

Toptenz — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:55:10 +0000

Great compilation. We did a list that specifically tried not to use the legendary images, but show other photos that are just as important. I hope you don’t mind if I post a link to that. Feel free to post a comment on my site as well.

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-pictures-that-shocked-the-world.php

By: Worlds Hardest Game 2

Worlds Hardest Game 2 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:34:07 +0000

Great work.There is nothing to impossible.

By: sujith k mani`

sujith k mani` — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:10:37 +0000

hearting pictures……………………………….

By: Last Shoot Photography

Last Shoot Photography — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:03:54 +0000

life is so bad some time ty for such post

By: ZeeGlobe

ZeeGlobe — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:51:59 +0000

An interesting collection of photos that all tell a story in their own right. Sparked some challenges from readers which is a good sign.

By: celticeilidh

celticeilidh — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:45:13 +0000

The copy under these photographs is not well written, edited or proof-read. To present important works like these with half-finished, grammatically incorrect copy is just wrong. Just because it’s on the web doesn’t mean it has to be semi-literate.

“Che”: The picture depicts the then-31 year-old’s stoic and character and now appear on T-shirts, tattoos, murials and walls all around the world.
“Lynching”: … It sold thousands of copies, which Beitler stayed up for 10 days and nights printing them… The photo shows a crowd that have turned out to view the lynching, and the audience a mixture of anger and fulfillment.

By: Jeaners84

Jeaners84 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:27:34 +0000

Lil Man, your comment of “That’s gross and the pictures are not good”….. how old are you? Obviously not old enough to look at what these pictures represent rather than just the pictures themselves.

By: mellisa

mellisa — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:24:24 +0000

These are some of the most disturbing pictures but reminders of what our country has gone through over the years. I have always been touched by the picture of the little child being stalked by a vulcher. This is a reminder that everyone needs to do their part to help others around the world.

By: The Mystery of the Crystal Portal

The Mystery of the Crystal Portal — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:52:16 +0000

Hello.This post was really fascinating, particularly since I was looking for thoughts on this subject last couple of days….

By: Photojournalism and the war of images | BadgesPatches Photography Blog

Photojournalism and the war of images | BadgesPatches Photography Blog — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:35:57 +0000

[...] ripped, squeezed, reformatted, re-edited and authorless – history, it seems, demands icons, and it calcifies around certain images. Photojournalists, caught up in the image supply chain, make photographs that arrest us and that [...]

By: pancakeing

pancakeing — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:16:55 +0000

The falling man is the head chef from the top floor restaurant, so he doesn’t remain unknown, there was a doctumentary about it. Also, these are very biased to americans and some of them are not very well known, never mind ‘iconic.’

By: Rupesh

Rupesh — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:19:00 +0000

the last one bring me into tears ….

By: Richard Harris

Richard Harris — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:09:49 +0000

I was a Navy photographer and seeing such carnage was almost a daily event. Doing this was my job, and the people who sent me out had a reason for doing so. War is so horrible that there are no words adequate to express the horror of it. I’ve had to live with this, and it wasn’t easy. I have very little respect (as “in None”) for people who critiicize and pass judgement on others who were “there’, and because they weren’t there, they don’t know what they are talking about.

By: Lesley Pattinson

Lesley Pattinson — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:55:56 +0000

Proof of why photographs are so important, they tell history not to mention share events with the world, great set.

By: Dual

Dual — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:22:21 +0000

Reading through everyone’s comments I became more and more disturbed. I am at an age where I can pretty much remember all the events captured in the photographs with the excepetion of the civil war. I find it a sad statement about the human condition that so much pain, sorrow, and suffering can take place within one lifetime and that the majority of that suffering is through our own doing or failure to do.

There is no beast on this earth more malignant than man. Man was ‘blessed’ with free will. I would like to see more photographic evidence of man using free will for the betterment of this world. Name calling serves no useful purpose.

By: Gwencacey

Gwencacey — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:04:15 +0000

True story:
The photo famously known as “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” by Joe Rosenthal is actually the second. The first “take” of the photo was with the platoon’s flag plus one soldier. The leader of the platoon decided to use the ship’s flag instead, and took a second picture, which is the one everyone knows about today.

The first picture was given to the soldier not in the second picture, who was a good friend of Rosenthal, and my grandfather.

By: Al Ex

Al Ex — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:44:11 +0000

Everybody is a critic.

By: kimsmithbrown

kimsmithbrown — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:47:35 +0000

Some of these photos bring pride in america and others just wrench your heart! The last one of the starving child was just awful to see.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:24:16 +0000

This is ’12 Of The Most Iconic Photographs Ever Taken In The Eyes Of Americans’ not ’12 Of The Most Iconic Photographs Ever Taken’. Many examples but one that is striking is the Soviets raising the flag over the Reichstag is far more iconic than the Iwo Jima one.

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“Fire on Marlborough Street:” Defying Ethical Standards? | chelsy says hi! — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:50:19 +0000

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By: martelle21

martelle21 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:19:54 +0000

OK…the last pick got me….theirs was just no food there idk an i just dont understand thers just non children malnourished like that an people are there too take picks off them but there’s just noooo foood…damm thats verry sad.

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