its a hard one to choose just one.i dont think a great pic has to be in perfect focus or composed just right.its what the pic says.
this has to be one of if not my favorite.
there are lots out there that stop you in your tracks.
what are yours? http://www.relativelyinteresting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/earthrise-a...
the photo of the napalmed kids was the first thing that came to my mind. I see a certain horrible mirroring of the pose of the the two central girls in the photos.
I knew the photo was staged but I didn't know that. Thanks. They did a very acceptable job in the circumstances. Looks like quite a precarious perch. Had this thread started over in the US I bet we'd have had the Iwo Jimo one by now. What's the most iconic UK war photo, I wonder?
Most definitely iconic. Always stuck with me that one. The moon/earth shot is an out of this world shot in every sense though.
Wiley Coyote210 Nov 2013
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I think it has to be earthrise if only for the effect it had. I vividly remember the impact of the napalmed girl, which was a shocking image of war and made a lot of people appreciate how much innocent people were suffering but Earthrise had a global impact on people's attitude to the earth. It was am image that was simultaneously beutiful and terrifying. Suddenly it was graphically clear that this little blue planet lost in the black infinity of space really was all we had and we had better look after it. I know there is a lot of environmental destruction still going on but I'm sure there would be a hell of a lot more if that photo had not galvanised a whole generation.
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In reply to MJ: I was thinking of those pictures before clicking on the thread. Taken with multiple flashes and long exposures as I understand it. Always thought they were the best photo's ever since I first saw them.
Honecker must have felt short-changed with that after this one from an earlier Soviet premier. In western politics the temperature of bilateral relations can't always be gauged in this way.
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Really? I think they're brilliant, though a bit repetitive.
Between the Vietnam girl and the Chinese tank guy for me.
Have we had that one of some Viet Cong bloke shooting a prisoner dead?
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