Rare Pics.. Part IBy

Hemant Abhare

The Plight of Kosovo Refugee [1999] by Carol Guzy...it shows how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands

of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in

Kosovo.

Death of a loyalist soldier [1936 ]by Robert Capa....photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death...This is the best-known

picture of the Spanish civil war....

Oklahoma city bombing [1995] by Charles Porter....The image of firefighter Chris Fields holding

the dying infant Baylee Almon....

Dragging a Vietcong Soldier [1965]...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...

War Underfoot [2003]...by Carolin....Picture of bullet casings carpet a street in Monrovia (the capital of Liberia), at the heart

of the battlefield between government and rebel soldiers...

Burning Monk, the self immolation [1963] by Malcolm Browne.... June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South

Vietnamese government at the time

Segregated water fountain [1950] by Elliott Erwitt....Picture of segregated water fountains in

North Carolina....

Bliss [~2000] by Charles O’Rear, a resident of St. Helena in Napa County...Bliss is the name of a photograph of a landscape in Napa County,

California, east of Sonoma Valley. It contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default

computer wallpaper for the “Luna” theme in Windows XP

Fire on Marlborough Street July 22, 1975,by Stanley J. Forman....Forman shot the picture of a young woman, Diana Bryant, and a very young girl, Tiare Jones when they fell helplessly. Diana Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene. The young girl lived....

The photo by the staff of Dallas Morning Post wins the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography "for its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed

New Orleans.

The First Colored photograph [1961] by Thomas Sutton...This was taken by taken by photographer Thomas Sutton under direct

supervision of James Clerk Maxwell (nineteen century mathematician) - the famous author of Maxwell Equations.

Assasination of Japan Socialist Inejiro Asanuma [1960] by Yasushi Nagao...This picture was taken only a second before

the japanese socialist Party leader Asanuma was assassinated by an right wing student...

The power of One by Oded Balilty....powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they

remove illegal settlers in the West Bank...

11 February 1990 Freedom for Nelson Mandela Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after

27 years. His release follows the relaxation of apartheid laws... including lifting the ban on leading black rights party the African National Congress (ANC) by

South African President FW de Klerk.

Princess Diana died August 31, 1997. Her funeral September 6, 1997 saw seen by 33 million viewers around the world. That day was at

once sorrowful and uplifting as Diana, Princess of Wales, was remembered as a woman of "natural nobility" whose life of

compassion and style transcended sometimes abusive press coverage...

28 January 1986 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 fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 At that time, the Cold War was still dominant. Hardly anybody predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union until just before it

happened in 1989, so most 1980 forecasts for the year 2000 retained the Cold War as the defining feature. The fall of the Berlin Wall is a very visible sign of

the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag planted on the lunar surface The date that made history was July 20, 1969.

Millions of Americans heard Neil Armstrong say: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."...

Assassination of John F Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 23, 1963....

This picture of the “mushroom cloud" is a very accurate approximation of the enormous quantity of energy spread below. The

first atomic bomb, released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan) killed about 80,000 people. It didn’t render the Japanese to surrender.

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 156,000 American, British and Canadian troops landed on Normandy beaches to begin the liberation of Europe

from its Nazi occupiers. It was said to be the largest build-up and movement of soldiers in the history of mankind...

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It shows five US Marines and a US Navy corpsman raising the American flag

on Mount Suribachi. This photograph was reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year it was published. The photo was regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable

images of the war & one of the most reproduced photograph of all times

Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941 The surprise was complete. The planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 am the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it

was all over. By 1:00 pm carriers launched planes 274 heading for Japan. Behind them they left 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific

Fleet that included 8 destroyed battleships..

The famous picture of the airship Hindenburg as it exploded and crashed spectacularly while docking

at Lakehurst, NJ on May 6, 1937 and 35 people died

Sunday, November 26, 1922, Howard Carter, Discovers the Tomb of Tutankhamun. King Tut was an insignificant ruler who died young and was

soon forgotten by his people. His lack of renown likely helped protect his tomb from grave robbers, which was finally opened in 1922 by Howard Carter in the

most important archeological event of the 20th century.

To be continued….

Rare Pics.. Part II

ByHemant Abhare

"A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear..."The Kid 1921. First Silent Movies... Stars Jackie Coogan as Charlie Chaplin

adopted son and sidekick. It was a huge success and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921

First Flight on December 17, 1903.... was the day humanity spread its wings and soured into the skies. The flight lasted only 12 seconds in the air.

However, it was a major breakthrough. Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, are the pioneers of aviations, and although this first flight occurred so late in history, the ulterior development was exponential

Polish children imprisoned in Auschwitz look out from behind the barbed wire fence. (July

1944)...Photograph from the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes...

A Vietnamese woman weeps over the body of her husband, one of the Vietnamese Army casualties suffered in the war

with the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. 1965

Napalm bombs explode on Viet Cong structures south of Saigon in the Republic of Vietnam. 1965

Christmas dinner in the home of Earl Pauley near Smithland, Iowa. (Circa 1935)

A wonderful world....Children of rehabilitation clinic in Arkansas. (Circa 1935)

Martin Luther King - I have a dream.....The “I have a dream” speech is probably King’s most famous speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial

during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In this speech he speaks of his dream for blacks and whites to live together in harmony as

equals. This speech marked the defining moment for the American Civil Rights movement.....

The First Photograph [France, 1826]......Taken by Nicéphore Niépce, this is the first photograph ever taken which still

exists...this photograph took 8 hours of exposure time......

Looking Down Sacramento Street [San Francisco, 1906]....This photo was taken on April 18th, 1906. It is the most famous photograph of

the devastation caused by the great fire and earthquake. It was taken by Arnold Genthe on a borrowed camera.....

The Lynching of Young Blacks [Indiana, 1930]....This photograph was taken after the lynching of two young black men accused of raping a white girl. They were hanged by a mob of 10,000....A third man was

saved by the girls uncle who said he was innocent....

Breaker Boys [Pennsylvania, 1910]...This is a photograph of breaker boys - child labour used to separate coal from slate. This image

helped lead the nation to outlaw child labour. The photo was taken by Lewis Hine.....

Migrant Mother [Oklahoma, 1936]....This photograph of Florence Owens Thompson (32 year old mother of 7) is one of the great representations of the

Great Depression. The photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange after Florence had sold her tent to provide food for her children.....The Great

Depression 1930-1939. During this time the prices of stock fell 40%. 9,000 banks went out of business. 9 million savings accounts were wiped out. 86,00

businesses failed. Wages decreased by 60% which left 15 million jobless people.

Hitler in Paris [Paris, 1940]...This photograph was taken of Adolf Hitler visiting Paris with his architect Albert Speer, on June 23, 1940. Hitler’s army had captured Paris and Hitler

went to admire his new City.....

The Last Jew in Vinnitsa [Ukraine, 1941]....This was found in the personal album of an Einsatzgruppen soldier. It was

labelled on the back “The last Jew of Vinnitsa”. All 28,000 of the Jews living there were killed at the time....

V-J Day [New York, 1945]...This is one of the most famous photographs from the Second World War. The soldier and the nurse are unknown...Apparently the nurse slapped the soldier immediately after. The event was the celebration of the end of the war and it was

taken in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt.....

Soviet Flag raised above the Reichstag [Berlin, 1945]....Soviet Union soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev, and Georgij Bulatov raising the flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May,

1945. The photograph was taken by Yevgeny Khaldei....

Vatican II Begins [Vatican City, 1960]...This is a photograph of Pope John XXIII signing the document that officially started the

Second Vatican Council....

The Body of Che Guevara [Bolivia, 1967]....After capturing and killing Guevara (Marxist revolutionary), the Bolivian army showed this

photograph to prove that he was dead. His death dealt a death blow to the socialist revolutionary movement in Latin America and the

Third World....

Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [Vietnam, 1968]....Photographer Eddie Adams took this photograph of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national

police chief executing this Viet Cong captain. Adams later said that he regretted that the world did not see Loan as a hero for his actions in

Vietnam....

Footprint on the Moon [Lunar, 1969]...On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong put his left foot on the rocky Moon. It was the first human footprint on the Moon....This photograph was taken by

Buzz Aldrin...

Phan Thị Kim Phúc [Vietnam, 1972]....The girl in the centre of this photograph is 9 year olf Kim Phúc. She is running from a napalm

attack which caused serious burns on her back. The boy is her older brother. Both survived. This photo (by Huynh Cong Ut) became one of

the most published of the Vietnam war....

Tiananmen Square [China, 1989]...Probably the most famous image from the student uprising in China in 1989, this photograph shows a single person blocking the tanks that were emerging on the square.

The man survived but shortly after the square was filled with innocent blood....

Che Guevara portrait by Alberto Korda....This is "The most famous photograph in the world and a

symbol of the 20th century."

Marliyn....This iconic image of Marilyn Monroe comes from the film The Seven Year Itch. It is

probably the most famous picture taken of this celebrated actress.

9/11 by Richard Drew...American photograph captured this image during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. He managed to photograph a man who, in panic, jumped from

the upper floors of the building.

Churchill by Yousuf Karsh...The portrait of Great Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, became famous all over the world...it is the most reproduced picture in history, and it also

appeared on the cover of Life Magazine.

Einstein by Arthur Sasse...The famous scientist, Albert Einstein, shows us in this famous photograph, that he also had

a good sense of humor. The picture was taken on March 14, 1951...

Unknown Refugee by Steve McCurry...Steve McCurry took this photograph of a young refugee girl from war-torn Afghanistan. It first appeared in National Geographic Magazine in 1985 but was taken in

1983. Later she was indentified as a Sharbat Gula, one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp

Soldier's Despair by David Turnley...In the photo, American sergeant, just found his best friend in the body-bag beside him. He was killed during the Gulf

War.

Construction workers by charles Ebbets...“New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam” is a world

famous photo, made during the construction of the GE Building in the Rockefeller Center in 1932.

Soweto Riots by Sam Nzima...A photo that managed to draw the attention of the world shows Hector Peterson, age 13, as he dies in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubo, after he was shot by a police officer

on June 16, 1976, during the Soweto riot in South Africa.

Volcano Victim by Frank Fournier....Omayra Sánchez was 13 years old when the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted. She was trapped in

the remains of her house for three days in water up to her neck. Photor-reporter Frank Fournier got this picture a few hours before her

death.

Southern Sudan by Kevin Carter..........The image shows a vulture waiting for a child to starve to death. This horrific sight

affected the photographer so deeply that he committed suicide after winning the Pulitzer Prize.

Adios….