http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com photosthatchangedtheworld.com or ptctw.com Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:31:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starving Child Vulture One photograph that has helped awaken the world about the effects of poverty in Africa is the one above showing a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture nearby. It is quite obvious that the child was starving to death, while the vulture was patiently ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/starving-child-vulture/ 5 year old Mother (1939) One of the photographs meanwhile that changed medical history is that of Lina Medina, the youngest mother who gave birth at the age of five. Born in Peru in 1933, Lina was brought to the local hospital by her parents because of an ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/5-year-old-mother/ The Baby Hand Some of us may be familiar with a picture called "The Baby Hand," taken on Aug. 19, 1999, by photojournalist Michael Clancy for USA Today, which first published the picture. Clancy was assigned to document a spina bifida operation performed in utero on a 21-week unborn baby ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/the-baby-hand/ It seems that very few people have seen the original (and uncropped) version of the image. Click on the Thumbnail below to see the Full Image (WARNING , Lena is, of course, nude). [caption id="attachment_622" align="alignnone" width="92" caption="Lena Nude"][/caption] Picture of Lena Söderberg, scanned out of a Playboy article. The image is ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/lenna-playboy/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/napalm-girl/ Lone Woman defying Israeli security forces Settler woman struggling with Israeli security officers at Amona outpost in the West Bank February 1, 2006. Oded Balilty, Israel, The Associated Press.World Press Photo Contest. The prize-winning entries were announced on February 9, 2007. REUTERS/Oded Balilty/the Associated Press/Handout http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/power-of-one/ Afghan Girl Who would forget these eyes that have seemed to reflect the harshness of the war? This is the famous photo of the Afghan girl taken by Steve McCurry of National Geographic. It is very rare for a man to see faces of Afghan girls mainly because ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/afghan-girl/ Tsunami Floating Bodies The Boxing Day Tsunami that struck Thailand in 2004 caused approximately 350,000 deaths and many more injuries. Suggested By : Joe Hiles http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/tsunami-floating-bodies/ Emmett Before Emmett Till Lynching Emmett Till Travels to the Mississippi Delta Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was excited about his trip from his home in Chicago's south side to the Mississippi, Delta to visit relatives. Prior to his departure, his mother, Mamie Till Bradley, a teacher, had done her best to advise him about ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/emmett-till-murder/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/the-falling-man/ Burning Monk As a protest to the Diệm slow and unreliable reforms in Vietnam, the Buddhist monks have resorted to immolation, such as this Mahayana Buddhist monk, Thỉch Quảng Đức. Đức burned himself alive across the outskirts of Saigon, mainly because of the harshness done by the ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/burning-monk/ Images from the video footage of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah being shot dead in the Gaza Strip. The scene was filmed by a France 2 cameraman. Muhammad and his father cower behind a concrete wall Muhammad's father, Jamal, tries to shield him "Don't shoot", Jamal shouts to Israeli troops Shots ring out Muhammad collapses in his ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/palestinian-father-shields-son/ Little Rock Desegregation In the effort to desegregate the American people on the basis of skin color, the U.S. Supreme Court finally declared that segregated schools are unconstitutional, and that all schools must be segregated from then on. The decision was agreed upon by the school boards ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/little-rock-desegregation/ On July 22, 1975, Stanley J. Forman was working in the newsroom of the Boston Herald American newspaper when a police scanner picked up an emergency: "Fire on Marlborough Street!" Forman rushed to the scene, where multiple fire crews were battling an intense blaze. There was a distress call for ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/the-boston-fire/ This is the picture of the "mushroom cloud" showing the enormous quantity of energy. The first atomic bomb was released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan) and killed about 80,000 people. On August 9 another bomb was released above Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were even more devastating ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/nagasaki-mushroom-cloud/ Tiananmen Square 1989 A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a million as the injustices of a nation cried for reform. ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/tiananmen-square-protests/ Child Draws Home The effects of the World Wart II have not only resulted to the death of millions, but also a long-standing disturbance on the lives of those who survived, particularly children. They were the ones who greatly suffered from the pain and trauma brought by ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/draw-home-2/ [caption id="attachment_640" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Alan Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph."][/caption] US federal agents have seized six-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez in an early morning raid on the home of his relatives in Miami. About 25 officers broke down the door of the house and re-emerged minutes later with Elian wrapped in ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/swat-vs-cuban-boy/ 9/11 Attacks In the morning September 11, 2001, two hijacked passenger jets crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. This was no accident, but rather a series of attacks done by suicide bombers engaged with the Al-Qaeda terrorist group. The attacks ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/9-11-attacks/ Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields carries a dying Baylee Almon away from the rubble. She had celebrated her first birthday just one day earlier. Charles Porter's photo was widely distributed by The Daily Oklahoman and the Associated Press and quickly became recognized around the world. The photo earned the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/oklahoma-city-bombing/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/niagara-falls-frozen/ Starving boy and a missionary World Press Photo of the Year: 1980 Mike Wells, United Kingdom. Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980. Starving boy and a missionary. About the image Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/starving-boy-and-missionary/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/segregated-water-fountains/ Flower Power The most lasting image from the last big march on the Pentagon, on October 21, 1967, survives in the collective memory as summing up an era. Carnations in gun barrels were the essence of Flower Power. "I knew I had a good picture," says photographer Bernie Boston, 73, who ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/flower-power/ Real life, amidst chaos World Press Photo of the Year: 2006 Spencer Platt, USA, Getty Images. Young Lebanese drive through devastated neighborhood of South Beirut, 15 August About the image After a long morning walking through the rubble of a bombed Beirut and documenting people returning to what was left of ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/real-life-amidst-chaos/ Reagan Assassination Attempt Reagan's shooter was a mentally ill John Hinckley Jr who had an obsession with actress Jodie Foster after seeing the film, Taxi Driver. He stalked her for a number of years before he decided that he needed to do something grand to get her attention. Hinckley decided to ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/reagan-assassination/ Olympics Black Power Two black American athletes have made history at the Mexico Olympics by staging a silent protest against racial discrimination. Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200m, stood with their heads bowed and a black-gloved hand raised as the American National Anthem played during ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/olympics-black-power/ Face Off: Oka Crisis The Oka Crisis was one of the well-publicized violent conflicts the Canadian government faced against the First nations that began on July 11, 1990 and lasted until September 26, 1990. The immediate cause of the conflict was due to a land dispute between the ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/face-off-oka-crisis/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/flag-raising-on-iwo-jima/ In one of the most famous photographs of the 20th Century, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module Eagle. Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Armstrong and Aldrin explored the ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/man-walks-on-the-moon/ This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer prize with it. The picture shows Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam's national police chief executing a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain. Once again the public opinion was turned against the war. http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/execution-of-a-viet-cong-guerrilla/ This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing the young black men accused of raping a Caucasian woman and killing her boyfriend, hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men. The mob took them by force from the county jail house. Another black man was left behind and ended ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/lynching-of-young-blacks-2/ Dying Soldier Hangs to Priest Puerto Cabello naval base, Venezuela, 4 June 1962. A soldier who has been mortally wounded by a sniper clings onto navy chaplain Luis Padillo. About the image Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/dying-soldier-hangs-to-priest/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/abu-ghraib/ Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/last-jew-of-vinnitsa/ Dorothy Counts First Black Student World Press Photo of the Year: 1957 Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School. About the image Reporters and photographers bore witness and ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/first-black-student/ Palestinian Boy throws rock at Israeli tank. A Brave Palestinian boy throws stones at an Israeli tank during a clash May 19, 2003 at Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip. http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/boy-throws-rock-at-tank/ Burial of an unknown child Burial of an unknown child. This unknown child has become the icon of the world's worst industrial disaster, caused by the US multinational chemical company, Union Carbide. The struggle still continues. Photo Suggested By : Kishor Barhate http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/burial-of-an-unknown-child/ First pic on the internet Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hardronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of "the CERN girls" to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the "World Wide Web". I had ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/first-pic-on-the-internet/ In 1901 Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, and he truly deserves his place in history because his discovery revolutionized the medical world. A series of experiments helped him notice that barium platinocyanide emits a fluorescent glow. Combining his observation with a photographic ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/the-first-x-ray/ In 1957 he began taking pictures with an endoscope, an instrument that can see inside a body cavity, but when Lennart Nilsson presented the rewards of his work to LIFE's editors several years later, they demanded that witnesses confirm that they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. Finally ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/how-life-begins/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/loch-ness-monster/ Man mutilated Rwanda World Press Photo of the Year: 1994 James Nachtwey, USA, Magnum Photos for Time. Rwanda, June 1994. Hutu man mutilated by the Hutu 'Interahamwe' militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. About the image Nachtwey says his specialty is dealing with ground level realities with ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/man-mutilated-rwanda/ Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932. The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/lunchtime-atop-a-skyscraper/ Solomos Solomou Following the funeral of Tassos Isaac who was beaten to death by a Turkish mob in the UN buffer zone three days earlier, a group of unarmed Greek Cypriots re-entered the area where Isaac was murdered in order to demonstrate against his unlawful killing. Among these demonstrators was Solomou who ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/solomos-solomou/ Back in 1997, a rather bizarre photograph suddenly became very famous. It showed a totally hairless mouse, with what appeared to be a human ear growing out of its back. That photograph prompted a wave of protest against genetic engineering, which continues today. But there was absolutely no genetic engineering ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/mouse-with-human-ear/ Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/anne-frank/ Harold Edgerton’s famous high speed picture of a bullet going through an apple. Taken in 1964, it became a very famous image , not least because it was such an unusual photo based on a great achievement in high speed photography. Edgerton, professor at MIT, is also inventor of the ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/stopping-time/ Ice Storm hits Geneva, Switzerland January 27th 2005, After a conjunction of intense cold (-8 to -12 degrees Centigrade), plus very strong winds, blowing at over 100 kmh (70 mph), the waves got so harsh that they passed over the dikes and the droplets immediatly froze everything they touched Clearly this photo ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/ice-storm-hits-geneva/ Palestinian woman Pleads with Soldier World Press Photo of the Year: 1976 Françoise Demulder, France, Gamma. Beirut, Lebanon, January 1976. Palestinian refugees in the district La Quarantaine. About the image She was the first woman to win the World Press Photo, and did so on the 20th anniversary of the award. ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/palestinian-woman-pleads/ Iraqi man comforts son World Press Photo of the Year: 2003 Jean-Marc Bouju, France, The Associated Press. An Najaf, Iraq, 31 March 2003. Iraqi man comforts his son at a holding center for prisoners of war. About the image Working quickly and discreetly, Bouju couldn't help thinking about his own child, ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/iraqi-man-comforts-son/ Take the picture already! In terms of of a changing the world this photo is minor league but It just had to be included because its a very famous and renowned photograph. The shot is more commonly known as "Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park" The photo shows a boy, with ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/take-the-picture-already/ The challenger space shuttle disaster The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board. The five men and two women - including the first teacher in space - were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger blew up. The astronauts' families, ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/the-challenger/ Dolly the Sheep Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned adult animal. The scientists who cloned Dolly are to stop experiments involving genetically modifying pigs for human organ transplants because of concerns that deadly new diseases could be passed on to people. http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/dolly-the-sheep/ Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country's first black president. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa's white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. The government outlawed the ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/nelson-mandela-walks-free/ Patterson Bigfoot The most famous recording of an alleged Bigfoot is a short film shot in 1967. Filmed in Bluff Creek, California, it shows a large, manlike creature striding through a clearing. In many ways the veracity of the film is crucial; unlike many alleged Bigfoot photographs, the subject in the ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/patterson-bigfoot/ Ruby shoots Oswald Ruby (also known as "Sparky," reportedly because of his short temper) frequently carried a handgun, and witnesses saw him with a handgun in the halls of the Dallas police headquarters on several occasions after President Kennedy's assassination and arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963. In ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/ruby-shoots-oswald/ Hector Peterson Hector Pieterson (1964 – 16 June 1976) became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a news photograph by Sam Nzima of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student, was published around the world. He was killed at the age ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/hector-pieterson/ Death of a loyalist soldier From 1936 to 1939 Robert Capa photographed the horrors the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/death-of-a-loyalist-soldier/ Migrant Mother The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/migrant-mother/ Omaha Beach Omaha Beach was the code name of one of the points where the Allies would land and invade France, which was then conquered by Germany during the World War II. The beach is located in the shores of Normandy, facing the English Channel. The British troops invaded ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/omaha-beach/ On 15 August 1961 he found himself, aged 19, guarding the Berlin Wall, then in its third day of construction, at the corner of Ruppinerstraße and Bernauerstraße. At that stage of construction, the Berlin Wall was only a low barbed wire fence. As the people on the Western side shouted ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/conrad-schumann/ This picture was taken only a second before the japanese socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by an right wing student. Photographer Yasushi Nagao said he was only on the right place and on the right time. He received a Pulitzer price for this photo. The Assassination was also caught ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/assassination-of-asanuma/ Photograph of Che Guevara was taken on March 5, 1960 by Alberto Korda at a funeral service for victims of the La Coubre explosion, it was published seven years later. Che Guevara was 31 at the time of the photo. Alberto Korda http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/che-guevara/ Soviet Union soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov raising the flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May, 1945. http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/reichstag-flag/ "The Kiss at Times Square" By Alfred Eisenstaedt At the end of World War II, in US cities everybody went to the streets to salute the end of combat. Friendship and unity were everywhere. This picture shows a sailor kissing a young nurse in Times Square. The fact is he was ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/the-kiss-times-square/ Known as the World’s First Photograph but actually this is the earliest surviving photograph, c. 1826. It required an eight-hour exposure, which resulted in sunlight on both sides of the buildings. It represents the view of the courtyard of Niépce's house at Gras, France, taken from the window of his ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/the-first-photograph/ The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC). John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a Presidential Motorcade. ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/jfk-assassination/ WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his “I Have A Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/i-have-a-dream/ The news that Richard Nixon was sending troops to Cambodia caused a chain of protests in the U.S. colleges. At Kent State the protest seemed more violent, some students even throwing rocks. In consequence, The Ohio National Guard was called to calm things down, but the events got out of ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/kent-state-shootings/ When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in 1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war, more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which causes their muscles to waste away and their ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/biafra/ The late adventure photographer Galen Rowell called it "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken." Captured on Christmas Eve, 1968, near the end of one of the most tumultuous years the U.S. had ever known, the Earthrise photograph inspired contemplation of our fragile existence and our place in the cosmos. ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/earthrise/ December 17, 1903 was the day humanity spread its wings and rose above the ground - for 12 seconds at first and by the end of the day for almost a minute - but it was a major breakthrough. Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, are the ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/first-flight/ When LIFE ran this stark, haunting photograph of a beach in Papua New Guinea on September 20, 1943, the magazine felt compelled to ask ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/dead-on-the-beach/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/buchenwald-concentration-camp/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/flag-raising-at-ground-zero/ http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/saddam-hussein-execution-2/ This is a truly sad picture but unfortunately I don’t have much information about it. At the time the public saw it, it made quite a buzz, people realized how wrong the war is. The picture shows American trooper dragging the body of a vietcong soldier with their tank (or ... http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/dragging-vietcong-soldier/