Sunday, 4 July 2010

15 World's Most Famous Photo

1. Afghan Girl (1984)


This picture was taken by National Geographic Potograper Steve McCurry.
The girl in this picture is one of Sugar Sharbat school students in Afghan refugee reception center.
Who make that foto famous is that rare opportunity to capture a profile of Afghan women face.
Sugar Sharbat estimated 12 years at the time this picture was taken.

Photographer: Steve McCurry, Source: nationalgeographic.com


2. Child Stricken Crowling Towards a Food Camp (1994)


This photo was successfully received the Pulitzer acknowledged.
This photo was taken in 1994, at the time of the famine in Sudan. Which describes a child crawling toward a camp of the United Nations, which is located a few kilometers.
And also a vulture waiting for boy's death to be eaten. This photograph makes surprise the whole world.
No one knows what happened to the child, including the potograper Kevin Carter who left the place immediately after the photo was taken.


Three months later Kevin Carter committed suicide due to depression.

Photographer: Kevin Carter




3. Tourist Guy (2001)


These photos, pictures of tourists that have been edited disotosop attacks after September 11, 2001. Tourists in this photo is Peter Guzli.
There are those who claim that these images came from a camera found in the ruins at Ground Zero.
This photograph won the best 9 / 11 Photoshopped picture contest.

Photographer: Photoshop



4. Burning Monk - The Self-Immolation (1963)


June, 11 1963. Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself to death in the middle of the road.
He admitted it as a protest against the repressive measures and the southern Vietnamese government asked the Buddhist equality with Catholics

Photographer: Malcolm Browne



5. The Power of One (2007)


This photograph won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography 2007.
Testimonials for this picture: "Awarded to Oded Balilty of The Associated Press for his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal Settlers in the West Bank".

Photographer: Oded Balilty (Associated Press)



6. Palestinian Martyr (2000)



This photo is not from the original camera shots gan. But from the video skrinsut.
Which describes the moment in which a Palestinian Jamil ad-Durra was trying to protect her son from a hail of bullets Israeli soldiers.

BBC TV reporter who took the pictures just can surrender watch Jamil ad-Dura and his son Mohammed was trapped and just hiding behind the barrels of Israeli army gunfire with Palestinian militants.
Mohammed died in this incident. While Jamil ad-Durra survived with serious injuries. Ambulance driver who tried to help them also died.

Image from: BBC


7. Albert Einstein (1951)


Who would not know Albert Einstein?
Considered as one of the people who have found terjenius Theory of Relativity.
But it was Einstein also had a humorous side. Not as people imagine that genius reply must be serious.
The proof is in this photo. taken March 14, 1951

Photographer: Arthur Sasse, © Bettmann / Corbis


8. Lunch in top a Skyscraper (1932)


Workers described the 11 people who were enjoying lunch on the 69th floor of the GE Building
This photo was taken on September 29, 1932. And presented the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Photo Supplement on October 2.

Photographer: Charles C. Ebbets


9. Face Off During the Oka Crisis (1990)


This is the most famous photos throughout Canada ... CMIIW
Oka crisis was the seizure of land between the Nation and the Oka Mohawks, Quebec. Which began on March 11, 1990 until 26 September 1990

Photographer: Shaney Komulainen



10. Reichstag Flag (1945)


Two soldiers of the Soviet Union Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov flag above the roof of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, May 1945.
Signifies the defeat of Germany on the Eastern Front

Photographer: Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997)


11. Fire on Marlborough Street (1975)


Diana Bryant and little children jump in panic from the fire.
Diana Bryant was killed while her son survived because it can be caught by a fireman.

This photograph was awarded the Pulitzer and modify standard rescue procedures Firefighters Office at a later date.

Photographer: Stanley J. Forman




12. Segregated Water Fountains (1950)


Photographs depicting the separation of the drinking fountain for the white and colored race in North Carolina, USA.

Photographer: Elliott Erwitt


13. The Plight of Kosovo Refugees (1999)


This photo was nominated for a Pulitzer prize.
The photograph was told how the refugee Agim Shala kosovo move a 2-year-old boy through the barbed wire.

Photographer: Carol Guzy
Source (washingtonpost.com)



14. Tiananmen Square (1989)


The photo I'm sure all frequently seen.
Taken fit the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Brita confusion many people say it dilindes reply tanks.
I actually dilindes gan gak. But after this moment of new Tiananmen Square turned into a sea of blood.

Photographer: Stuart Franklin Magnum



15. Oklahoma City bombing (1995)


Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.
At 9:02 AM 19 April 1995. Timothy McVeigh, a veteran of the Gulf war ngeledakin strength 4800 lbs bombs.
The result devastated the Federal Government Building Alfred P. Murra, killing 168 people.

This event is recorded as one of the worst terrorist attack in American history.

Photographer: Charles Porter


source : http://eksplorasi-dunia.blogspot.com/2009/08/15-foto-paling-terkenal-di-dunia.html

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