Photographs that have moved you in some way

Shell-shocked soldier in WW1.

This.

Rescue at Rabaul, 1944

Shanghai Baby, 1937

R3 That one definitely moves me...deep in my loins.

Any photos of kids in the holocaust.

Tenerife air disaster

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Years later, the white bitch in OP's pic contacted the black girl and apologized for heckling her, and they became friends.

R9 Is this true?

1968

R11 I interviewed Kim. Phuc Lovely woman

this is a gay site. we don't Phuc lovely women R12

Hudson River

Heat Spell, Lower East Side

Wow, r4's photographer had death threats from Japanese nationalists for those photo series, and had to have the Brits protect him in Hong Kong.

Wong filmed more newsreels covering Japanese attacks in China, including the Battle of Xuzhou in May 1938 and aerial bombings in Guangzhou in June. He operated under British protection, but continued death threats from Japanese nationalists drove him to leave Shanghai with his family and to relocate to Hong Kong.

Nice thread OP.

hahahaha

From Syria.

Sad.

Tank man.

Breaks my heart still...

Whenever I see photos of the old Pennsylvania Station I get sad at the lost grandeur. The "new" Penn Station is a subterranean hellhole not fit for rats.

R22, I was just going to post a different version of that. So heartbreaking.

He was so precious on that day. I will remember this scene to my dying day.

On a lighter note:

"the boat returns home"

Two photos actually, side by side.

Vulture and starving boy, Sudan

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The Last Jew in Vinnitsa

Is that you, too, R8?

Here's mine

The Stonewall Riots. The beginning of the greatest era for the Gay Community.

Execution in Saigon.

Harvey Milk, one the greatest pioneers of the Gay Community.

Bobby Kennedy after he was shot.

President Obama

The infamous moment just before President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed and changed the USA forever.

Strange fruit

Classic

Six-year-old Austrian boy, Werfel, was photographed when he got a new pair of shoes at the Am Himmel orphanage, donated to him by the Junior Red Cross in the United States of America.

The photograph was shot by Gerald Waller, in 1946, and was titled “New Shoes”. The little boy, Werfel, was among the children who were brought to the USA after being deported from Israel / Palestine, where they arrived after liberation from the concentration camps.

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Classic, Take 2:

Many powerful photos posted. Wow, r2, I don’t remember ever seeing this pic. Talk about ‘exquisite corpse’....

Doris Day. Just because I love her.

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Lee Harvey Oswald being shot and killed by Jack Ruby. Obviously a cover-up for too much truth coming out.

Just an oddity.

Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia - 1938

The famous poster of Burt Reynolds' semi-nude shot. It paved the way for other male nudes and encouraged men to lighten up.

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Also by Horst Faas of R11 fame

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R45, that pic made me cry.

Run!

Babi Yar Slaughter

When C. Schuman escaped from East Berlin.

R9 So you're saying that white people CAN be redeemed through forgiveness?! Say it ain't so!!

Fall of Saigon.

Dis made mee no I could beez anything I wanz to beez- evens American tropfz wife

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R47 That picture has haunted me since I first saw it in Life magazine when I was a kid. That woman had jumped to her death from Empire State Building. She literally crushed the car she landed on, but she almost looks like she's asleep - gloves still on, pearls around her neck, lipstick perfect.

The only thing really out of place are her panty hose around her ankles.

USS Arizona, on a date that will live, in infamy.

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Goddamn

Haunting photo of woman falling from a fire escape.

Woman grieving in aftermath of '04 Asian Tsunami.

Japanese tsunami

Why are all of you sickies posting such morbid pictures?

Māori Battalion haka in Egypt

Of the four in the foreground only #3 survived.

2020:

Humans sent a grand piano sized robot 3 billion miles to have a look at Pluto and small moon Charon. This is why I want to have Bill Nye's babies!

Columbine class photo

Falling man 9/11:

9/11:

"Mission Accomplished"

Newtown, CT

Afghan refugee girl.

I remember seeing this in my high school photography class and thinking whoa.

photograph by Larry Clark. The guy that directed Kids and Ken Park

Elian Gonzalez.

R74 and r81 were taken by the same photographer in Boston, he won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes IIRC. The first one was during a fire, I think the baby survived. The second one was during the perennial demonstrations about school bussing.

Cowboy Dance

This photo is famous on DataLounge.

😂😂😂😂😂

To tears!

The frightening attack on a woman in a wheelchair.

Gay Act-Up activists in NYC during the AIDS crisis in the 1980's.

Munchkin reunion, 2007

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Anyone interested in photography, you might be interested in Richard Avedon's book (of photos): "In the American West." Here's one of the pictures.

I weep whenever I see a single panel.

As a Democrat in rural Alabama I am sorely tempted to use R8 on my Facebook page with the caption “me amongst the MAGAts.

The famous poster.

R1, without your caption, I would have otherwise thought that was a somewhat happy photo.

Bandit's Roost, 1890, New York City by Jacob Riis

8-year-old Christian Golczynski at the funeral of his father, who died during the War in Iraq, March 2007

Gloria Swanson poses inside the demolished Roxy Theater

A photo I first came across on DL:

Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a Taxi, NYC by Nan Goldin

Uhmmmmmm, well....

To lighten the mood...

A widow during the Great Depression.

Oops, I just realized that it was already posted, but the photo didn’t show up.

The photo in R74 took place when Boston was undergoing a rash of arsons. I think it had something to do with getting renters out of units so as to capitalize on condo-conversion.

One of the great non-photographed events. There are no genuine photos of Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the desktop at the UN; however, it’s an image that people frequently believe they have seen.

Background on R74.

Frenchman crying during the German invasion. Marseilles (sometimes described as being in Paris). Still taken from a film.

R101 What's the story behind that pic?

Can anyone post the picture of the jew who was rescued at the end of the war? He had his hands up in the air as if he was saying thanks while he was resting on the dead.

r110, she was actually a Native American. Had it been known back when it was taken, it wouldn't have been as powerfully received as it was in the time.

R116 I’m not the one who posted that image, but post-morten photography was a big practice in 19th century Europe and America, here is the Wikipedia article about it.

I'm anti-war, and I'm not even American, but this picture never fails to move me.

Not a terribly deep or harrowing or serious choice as many of the others here, but; as a gay kid growing up in a homophobic British household, it’s this one. It was taken in 2010, and the news had a field day with it.

Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral on April 15, 2019

R121 What's going on here?

Riot police officer on fire during protests against the government in Santiago, Chile on November 4, 2019

A DLer, years ago, posted a series of pix of people in NY City in the 60s and70s on stoops, in Central Park, and just walking.

Nobody was staring into a cell phone. All were engaged in the world around them.

I was moved and a sense of loss filled me.

I tried finding them on the Google thingy, but couldn't find them.

Girl working in Carolina cotton mill (1908) by Lewis Hine.

R126 Don't forget we can thank Lewis Hine for some of the first Beefcake shots.

Not exactly moving, but adorable.

Crowds cheer as dog follows Pope in Mexico in 2011.

Most of these photos would give Trump (and his base) a hard on.

R123, it looks like a soccer team captain kissed his teammate for making a great play during a crucial time out of joy and gratitude.

Hongkong Now:

R30. You know that’s a photo of a diorama, not actual buffalos in the wild. Metaphor for AIDS.

Straight boys lose their minds when they win at sports.

I know R38 already posted one of the RFK assassination, but this image of him with the busboy is the one I remember from when I was a little kid

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Unemployed lumberjack and his wife in a migrant workers camp, Dorothea Lange, 1939

That picture is definitely worth a thousand words, R138. Great choice.

More inspiring than moving.

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 collection in Paris

R138 That lumberjack was a hot hunk! And I love that his wife, even living in a tent, has her dress on, her bracelet, and her hair done nicely.

This issue was in our house, I remember staring at it as a child.

It was really something living through that time as a kid the tension and stress of that time was something I carried most of my life.

Katy Grannan, 'Inessa Waits Near South 9th Street, Modesto, CA' (2012).

Amazing what photos Time and Newsweek used to use in their issues.

They used to just let reality be reality.

[quote]And I love that his wife, even living in a tent, has her dress on, her bracelet, and her hair done nicely.

Yes, but she's thinking "I really didn't marry well."

The bitch can step aside then, R145. I'd GLADLY volunteer to take her place.

Oh, I'm not denying her husband is a great piece of a**, R146.

Maybe things got better for them in 1940. I hope he didn't die in World War II.

R138 Is that his social security number tattooed on his arm?

Pope John Paul II grimaces in pain while attempting to bless an Easter crowd from the Papal balcony.

This:

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila, by Bernini. This is the artist’s interpretation of a vision described by the Saint who was a mystic and stigmatic.. I know it’s not a photograph but they didn’t have photography in the 17th century.

The famous Fred With Tires photo.

I always come back to this one when I need a smile. Just look at this little thing!

Mourning FDR

The iconic pose of Raquel Welch from the B movie 1,000,000 Years BC which propelled her to fame, fortune, and an international sex symbol.

R138 That lumberjack was movie star handsome. What a beautiful face (not to mention the body). Why didn't an agent see that picture back then and make him a STAR?

[quote] R119: [R116] ... postmortem photography was a big practice in 19th century Europe and America, here is the Wikipedia article about it...

My ancestral cousin was a portrait artist in a New England fishing village in the decades immediately before photography became commonplace. One of his side gigs was a common practice at the time: he would create a collection of generic paintings of children. When a child in the community died, the parents would select one of these paintings. My cousin would then attend the child’s viewing, and paint the child’s face on the body in the portrait. The parents would then have a remembrance of their deceased child. One of the “tells” of his postmortem paintings, aside from the subject, is that they are of a lesser quality than the portraits he usually painted of the town’s merchants; which reflects the relative amount of time he had to spend on the paintings, and the financial resources of the art patrons. (I don’t know if the specific, linked portraits were postmortem or not, but these are the same era and style.)

For those who don't remember, or didn't know, the pictures of Lady Di with AIDS patients was a watershed moment.

r147's photo reminded me of this one:

Monkey selfie

This one of JFK and Bobby

This one too, R160.

Mixed feelings over this photo of Nixon announcing his resignation.

This 1985 photo of Danuta Danielsson hitting a Neo-Nazi in the head with her handbag. Taken in Sweden. Her mother had been put in a concentration camp, and Danielsson was pissed at having to see these assholes on the streets of her town. I love this photo.

Dr. Josef Goebbels was in a jovial mood at this conference in Geneva, Switzerland, until the photographer told him that he was Jewish, prompting this scowl. Of course, that revelation was intended to prompt this very reaction, but the Propaganda Minister really should have anticipated that, after all.

Not a single photo, but a collection of them, of Americans spontaneously gathering along the route of Robert Kennedy’s funeral cortège. I recall hearing about these photos a decade later in Catholic school.

Let's face it. If the "flower man" had been black, he'd have been shot.

R152, I love that sculpture, too. (Ecstasy of St. Teresa by Bernini.) I was able to see it in Rome. It was in a relatively small (but ornate) church, Cornaro Chapel. No fanfare, no guards, no crowds. The sculpture is in a protected area (set back and maybe had a plexiglass barrier). The church is dark and if you want to get a better look, you drop coins into the box in front of the sculpture. The lights go on for a set time and you can better see the sculpture.

Isn't it astonishing and terrible and depressing - the horror we can inflict on one another and the evil we can learn live alongside.

Thanks for posting those, R167. I'd never seen them before.

Remarkable.

I can’t find it but there was a picture back in 1990 of a Romanian orphan reaching out to the photographer. It still kills me to think about it.

The "I am a gay American" speech, as the medicated wife looks on & father looks for someone to beam him up somewhere.

Not historic, but a photo that touched me is the blurry cellphone pic of a very frail-looking Robin Williams at a Dairy Queen weeks before his suicide:

Op I loved her dress and sunglasses. Her family were know as great seamstress, not only did she break barriers that day, but she was better dressed then all of those who’re people. That’s some real courage.

Sadly, I see some cops allowing BLM anti-protesters get equally close to peaceful protests in smaller towns. It usually takes another white resident to get the MAGA assholes to back off while the cops stand around giving zero shits.

White people ^

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The iconic handsome beauty of John Kennedy Jr.

Thanks r130

Thanks r130

r167 I was there to watch RFK go by, at the New Brunswick station.

Earthrise

President Gerald Ford always seemed to be having unintentionally humorous accidents. Here he is after falling down the stairs from an airplane.

The landscape of Mars, taken by the Curiosity Mars Rover.

Pre-match publicity for the Battle of the Sexes, 1973

Omayra Sanchez, a young Colombian girl who died while being trapped in water by debris underneath, which entangled her legs. This was the aftermath of a volcanic eruption a few days earlier.

American POW returning home after 6 years as "Hanoi Hilton" prisoner, 1973.

Dozens of the photos above were taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, I wish he was credited.

Just saw this one on Reddit. We have fucking morons who refuse to even wear a mask in a Costco, yet this woman has more balls than any of them:

[quote]Lepa Radić of the Yugoslav Partisans being executed in 1943. The Germans offered her a way out of execution by revealing her comrades' and leaders' identities. She replied that she was not a traitor and that her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death

I wouldnt say it was moving but I find it rather touching

Beautiful thread...thank you all

I was eleven when this happened and I remember seeing this picture and it made me so sad.

[quote] Lepa Radić of the Yugoslav Partisans being executed in 1943. The Germans offered her a way out of execution by revealing her comrades' and leaders' identities. She replied that she was not a traitor and that her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death

R189, the sad thing is, did any of these comrades & leaders ever reveal their identities and avenge her death?

U.S. Marine welcomed home from Afghanistan by his boyfriend, after the repeal of "Don’t ask, don’t tell."

I wish I knew, R193

The late Winnie Johnson searching Saddleworth for Keith's body. (missing since 1964 he is still unfound).

Nadia Comaneci soaring to the world's first perfect 10.

The fabled most beautiful woman in the world in decline.

r134 the thing that moves me when viewing the photo is the visible amount of work being performed on that desktop. no squeaky-clean photo op, that was a man who was working for his country.

I was 10 when this came in the mail

R149, yes it is. The Social Security program was only implemented 3 years prior to when the picture was taken, and because many people were jobless and had become transients, their SS cards were getting worn, torn, or missplaced. And, people weren't used to memorizing nine long digits, so they had them tattooed on their person. It actually became a trend for awhile.

I can’t stay away from this thread, although I hold my breath every time I check for updates, unsure of what I’ll find. Thank you to all who contributed so far.

Christa McAuliffe’s family at the moment of the Challenger malfunction.

Child in KKK hood interacting with black cop

One of our greatest Presidents

Confederate soldiers -Antietam

US Figuring Skating Team, 1961

Emmett Till

/Figure

That little Syrian boy in the ambulance made me cry and cry. Even now I’m tearing up. 😢

I remember also the little boy who wrote to President Obama and told him to go get him. His family would adopt him.

Obama invited that little boy and his family to the WH.

Elian

Syrian boy on the beach

Anthony Perkins and Tab Hunter

Tupac and Gianni

For anyone interested in the backstory about the KKK toddler and black cop:

Fierce

This one always made me smile- A drum major from the U. of Michigan practicing with some kids

Big Jay McNeely bringing the house down

Can’t decide if I like the color or black and white photo better...

Very unforgettable.

I Am Moved!

I’m not a Ronaldo fan, but the reaction of these kids to getting a smile from him is precious.

Lucy, Desi, Monty, and Marlene catch Tallulah Bankhead's show at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.

U.S. officials and representatives of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara) sign the Garrison Dam agreement on May 20, 1948. Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug signs his name while tribal chairman George Gillette sobs into his hand.

This photo made pre-teen me very jealous her. I thought he was so handsome.

Potentially better link for R226.

Love this. Doris Day's 1960's mod look.

Cute

Rock Hudson's death put a face on AIDS.

This baby had something to say

Rock Hudson's last public appearance (fittingly, with Doris Day) when he was ravaged from AIDS.

Aid From the Padre- Venezuela, 1962

The soldier died.

^Tragic because he looked like he had a hot ass.

Soldiers watching an atomic bomb test in Nevada

If anyone is a fan of Richard avedon please post your favorite fashion pics by him.

The Lynching of Leo Frank

Dovima with Elephants

This 1982 photo of Boston Red Sox player Jim Rice carrying an injured kid to an ambulance. The kid got drilled in the head by a line drive and Rice ran out of the dugout, into the stands, grabbed the kid, and sprinted to the ambulance. The kid had brain surgery and fully recovered.

The look of determination on Rice’s face is what makes this memorable to me.

Edward Steichen

Wow, R240. Never knew about that.

This photo always causes the most visceral reaction for me, yet I find it beautiful too.

The Divers by George Hoyningen-Huene

Avedon photograph at the Museum of Modern Art

Versailles by Eugène Atget, 1923

Sam, an injured koala, getting a drink of water after the 2009 Australian bushfires.

She survived the fire, but sadly had to be put down due to an advanced case of chlamydia. It had affected her bladder and uterus and wasn’t treatable.

I wasn’t aware that around 50% of koalas have that disease. How awful.

English Toffs and Toughs

Thank you r245 and r239

This fascinated me as a kid. Standing on the moon seemed so impossible...

Operation Crossroads - Bikini Atoll, 1946

This one of Jackson Browne.

And this other one. It's the eyes.

Avedon's Nastassja Kinski and a Boa Constrictor

'Charlie's Angels' made a star of Farrah Fawcett, but the red swimsuit poster made her an icon.

Pretty Nose, an Arapaho war chief who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. She died in 1952 at age 101.

The Holy Trinity, 2006

Carmen (Homage to Munkácsi) by Richard Avedon

R257, I feel like I got an STD just looking at that.

Fierce.

Just heartbreaking.

Haven't looked through every picture, but considering OP's pic, I'm surprised if no one put up this:

Pretty depressing.

Hindu women worship the Sun god in the polluted waters of the river Yamuna during the Hindu religious festival of Chatth Puja in New Delhi, India, November 3, 2019.

R142 That's the first time I saw that pic, and I'm 50 years old. It is powerful.

The hand and the feet of this Christchurch shooting victim

Marilyn’s last photo shoot by Bert Stein

Man Ray Dada-ist and Surrealist

Anything space related:

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 heads to earth after a midair collision with a small plane over San Diego, 1978.

OMG, that's horrifying. Never saw it before^

'Art Is', a series of photographs by Lorraine O'Grady (1983).

I have a postcard of 'Girlfriends Times Two' on the wall above my work desk.

Chris Harris, the infant's father, was a US Army soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan soon after learning of his wife's pregnancy. Harris's battalion "brothers" stand in for him in this portrait of his newborn daughter.

I always thought Marilyn Monroe was large-busted, but from R266's photo, I realize she is not.

"American Pieta": Father Mychal Judge, the first official casualty of the 9/11 attacks.

Drinking fountain photo. It's better if you click it to see it in "wide screen."

A young fellow, having a couple of cold ones after work.

I haven’t seen this one posted yet. This image was everywhere and it still gets to me.

The Greensboro Four. Protesting a whites only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. Heroes.

The lunch counter protests were really emotionally moving, IMO. (I saw "Eyes on the Prize.") You take it for granted that you can eat wherever you want to eat. Or you ask: "Why do you want to be somewhere you're not wanted?" It's a different story when you are so hated and told you *can't* eat somewhere. It's basic human dignity that's at stake.

Stickball in Little Italy 1956. It made me want to join in.

Plucky kid

This one called ‘Amanda and Her Cousin Amy’ by photographer Mary Ellen Mark made me stop and say “geez” when I first saw it. You just knew the smoking girl didn’t have an easy life.

And she didn’t- raised poor, in a drug-ridden household, she was sent to a troubled kids school and later foster care. Was addicted to drugs and did some jail time herself.

This was taken in 1990 in North Carolina

OP’s photo is moving.

Those Karens harassing that Black girl and the white women who vote for the GOP today.

ARE the white women

An amusement park in Seaside Heights, New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy.

r253 Doctor, his eyes.

Hopefully, this link will work.

Loving this thread.

The photobombing squirrel

The iconic side-eye

There’s a reason this photo was chosen for the soundtrack cover. It’s fantastic.

Little boy trying to convince a police officer to let him cross the street of a parade route, 1958

April 1968. Vietnam.

The soldier with his arms up is trying to guide a medevac helicopter to pick up the wounded.

Einstein

World famous Statue Of David.

Gay men being beaten by police during the Stonewall Riots.

R292 This has always been one of my favorite pictures. I remember first seeing it in Life magazine when I was a kid myself.

2 men slow dancing together in mixed crowd many years ago.

Sunning at The Piers.

A Hutu man was struck with a machete when he refused to kill Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Over one million Tutsis were killed during a hundred days of killing.

I remember discussing this in elementary school, and I could not understand how people could go from being friends and neighbors with people one day, to killing them the next. It took me a while to understand how this happened. And it wasn’t an overnight thing- The Hutu propaganda against the Tutsis had been going on for a long time.

NJ residents who love the shore remember this one after Sandy hit . . .

During the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, sprinter Derek Redmond tore his hamstring, fell down, then got back up and hobbled in pain towards the finish line. His father, Jim, ran down from the stands to help his son finish the race.

I cried when I saw this, it was one of the best father/son moments I’ve ever seen.

I don’t want to derail the thread with a video, but check it out on YouTube. It’s very moving.

R302/R303, thank you for that. I never knew about it and now I'm tearing up. That's amazing.

George Clooney and fiancée Amal arrive in Venice in September 2014.

Aerial photo, taken in April 2015, of a housing development where it meets the desert in Cathedral City in drought-ravaged California.

I remember reading about the photographer who took the photo at R29. It really fucked him up mentally.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003, photo. Confused front-line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards positions held by U.S. Marines. #

Wheels of Death, 1959. A nine-year-old was crossing the street with his wagon when he was hit and killed by a garbage truck. So sad to think that moments before the kid had been alive and playing, maybe with those kids in the background, now he was dead in the street, not even the doctor or policeman could help him.

You were brilliant, Donnie. I'm your biggest fan.

My name is Daniel Pearl. I'm a Jewish American from Encino, California, USA. I come from, uh, on my father's side the family is Zionist. My father's Jewish, my mother's Jewish, I'm Jewish.

Daniel Pearl's last words.

R311, where is that and why would they agree to be photographed naked? Can't be America, that's for sure.

DL Fav Dyatlov Pass hikers...hiking into the unknown

Are you serious?

Green Boots - a DL fave

This made me feel something

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The Golden Akhal Teke

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The TV Guide cover that pasted Oprah's head on Ann-Margret's body

Death of David Kirby

The real reason for the end of the Carter Presidency.

I saw this in a movie magazine right before I learned Judy had been fired from Valley of the Dolls.

LOL, R325. It was cumulative. R324, I wish you would have read this thread, that photo has been posted.

R327, that's one photo that can't be posted enough, you cheap motherfucker. Why don't you find a nice greasefire and dive in face first. There is no reason for you post that same boring, chintzy "that's already been posted" bullshit all the time. You are a detriment to Datalounge, and that is saying something.

G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec

Take a pill, dumbass R328

Somber monkey hugging dog.

Former presidents and First Ladies at Barbara Bush's funeral.

Hillary: If that orange bastard comes anywhere near me, I'm leaving.

So many amazing photographs! Great thread.

Iraqi gas attack on Kurds. The dead people are tragic, but the dead little black kitty made me cry.

For r330:

^ still having a tantrum and determined to ruin this thread

White nationalists chant at counterprotestors in Charlottesville.

Powerful photo, R296.

That is such an ugly photo of hate r338. I hope it follows that guy in white for the rest of his life.

On the lighter side:

I hope so too, R340.

Bobby Hull in Life Magazine,

Puerto Rican children, 1898.

These poor kids were probably wearing their Sunday best for this picture.

Oh my, R343. Very inspiring.

The legacy of Pol Pot.

R343 This one definitely moved ME.

Elk avoiding wildfire in Montana. From 2000.

I’m such an idiot that when I first saw this photo, I thought it was the sun being reflected off the water from a sunset. I thought it was beautiful and set it as my desktop background. Then a few months later my brother was visiting and asked me why I had a picture of a wildfire as my background. I was kind of embarrassed that I didn’t see it before- that instead of elk enjoying a nice sunset, they were fleeing for their lives. Oops.

Before the 1990 magazine photo of the family surrounding the man dying of AIDS, the photographer Nicholas Nixon had been working on his ground breaking series of young men dying of AIDS for many years. It was very controversial both in the art world and with the LGBT community. The image here was of a Harvard grad student whose brain was being eaten away by toxoplasmosis. He found it ironic that AIDS was killing him that way while all the pretty boys were covered in lesions. His father was a doctor and mother a nurse. There was a whole book published on the series. He also did a series about the same time of old people dying, which was controversial as well. But what he’s most known for is photographing his wife and her three sisters once a year for over 40 years in the same pose. It’s called the Brown Sisters.

Now, now, R348. Great photo but how could you possibly mistake that for a sunset?

Bobby Orr flying goal

R350 because I’m dumb :)

Two kids dancing in NYC around 1940

I love old b&w nyc photos

I 100% believed in Nessie because of this photo.

The famous mad bluebird from 1979

California Highway patrolman Kevin Briggs talking Kevin Berthia out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge

Berthia didn’t jump

Such despondence

I’m glad the photo of David Kirby was posted more than once. It inspired me to look it up and read his story behind it; then I found the pics of his caregiver Peta and read his story. All of it heartbreaking but yet, love is there and so much steadfast determination. A stunning story related in photos.

Just checking if a CNN link will work this time.

Elderly patient waiting to be rescued at the flooded Gulf Medical Center in Port Arthur, Texas during Hurricane Harvey.

R1's photograph is unforgettable. I've never seen it before.

The most frightening fake laugh of all time.

El Morocco, New York by Garry Winogrand (1955)

Civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham.

My first thought was "Looking Into You," R286, but "Doctor, His Eyes" is better.

not sure if this has been posted

"Save me, free me..."

R10 and R9, it's much more complicated than that, and the short answer is an emphatic no, they did not "become friends." The white woman was insincere and was using her.

R366 I already posted it but it's worth a second posting. I am a big fan of Ruth Orkin.

Long may she reign.

A tragedy for all involved.

Afgan girl

R372 You are late to the game. This was posted as well as the famous photo of her 30 years later.

Despite the naysayers, the greatest President of America in modern times.

The Revenge Dress.

Face of a moron.

Football player Christon Jones fired after making homophobic remarks on Pride Day.

The photo at R29 did not really capture the reality of this child's situation. He was a few hundred feet from aid workers and received care soon after the photo was taken.

Koko and her kitten, All Ball

I bought the book at my school book fair in second grade and this was the cover photo. Loved it since then.

Famous painting of Jesus Christ, the Light of the world.

Happy seal photobomb

Here's the story behind R2's picture. Sad and mysterious. The way she fell describes why her stockings are the way they are in the photo.

Polish heart surgeon, Dr, Religa, monitoring the vitals of his patient after a 23 hour heart transplant surgery. His colleague is asleep in the corner from exhaustion. From 1987.

Vietnamese mother and children escaping across a river.

Sexy Christopher Reeve and his fans during the filming of Superman II

Indian wrestlers after a match:

And only the month before . . .

This 2016 photo of a Danish woman giving water to a two-year-old Nigerian boy who had been abandoned by his family because they said he was a witch. He was left to fend for himself on the streets, surviving on scraps thrown to him from people passing by. I believe she was voted Time’s most influential person that year for her work with abandoned kids.

She named him Hope and here he is in 2019- ready to run a race for his school

Monk sharing food with a tiger

A bus load of people trying to help a woman who tried to commit suicide

Korean War soldier taking care of newborn kitten

I hope they both made it.

Wait for me, Daddy. Canada 1940

Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber. Brutal.

R373 sorry didn't know that. The Pics are not always loading so haven't been able to see them all. I wish they would load better, it is interesting to see all these iconic pics in one place.

I cannot begin to describe how much this photograph moves me.

Baby being passed through a fence to his grandparents in a Kosovo War refugee camp

This photo of Adam Walsh will always be heartbreaking. All these years later just looking at it makes me depressed.

London boy with his little bus

Jeneil Williams in Vogue Germany

Entertaining the cat

The Little Parisian, 1952. He should meet up with the kid with the wine upthread...

R391 the monks are notorious for drugging the tigers and sedating them so that they are not dangerous.

Well, fuck them monks, then. No better than the joe tiger king guy.

Syrian refugee trying to sell pens in the streets of Beirut while carrying his sleeping daughter. I hope he and his kids are still doing okay.

Hooded torture victim at Abu Ghralb.

R10, Yes, it's true.

The True Story Behind The Most Iconic Image Of The Civil Rights Movement.

The great Marian Anderson in a historical moment in 1939.

My tennis coach.

Too bad it wasn't the nude section of Black's Beach.

I thought the Princess’ eyes were blue?

They look green there. Maybe it’s the dress.

American soldier in Vietnam covers the face of his fellow dead soldier.

R416 I remember seeing this in Life magazine when I was a kid. It made me cry then, and it makes me cry now. I look at it now and am stunned to see that this soldier was a kid himself, and his friend probably was, too.

It's a picture that captures terror, grief, helplessness, and the ripping away of innocence all at once.

Floyd and Lucille Burroughs on Porch, Hale County, Alabama by Walker Evans, 1936

During the Great Depression, "Fortune" magazine wanted to do a feature on the plight of tenant farmers in the American South. Walker Evans spent several weeks documenting the harsh existence of three families who grew cotton on a dry hillside seventeen miles north of Greensboro, Alabama.

This is Evans's portrait of a father and daughter. Lucille Burroughs at age ten could pick 150 pounds of cotton a day. She also inherited a less useful legacy: her parents' lifelong debt to a landlord who owned their cabin, farm, tools, mules, and the product of all their labor.

R418 Beautiful people, both of them. Such a heartbreaking story.

this one, bless this child’s heart

[quote]R418 Beautiful people, both of them. Such a heartbreaking story.

Yes, I wasn't aware of this type of exploitation. From the photo, they're obviously not well off but I never realised how hard their lives were.

Tonya Harding's crocodile tears

THAT moved you, r422?!!

Australian WWI soldier

Hachiko the loyal dog who waited for his deceased owner outside the train station every day for 9 years. The Akita breed dog and his owner, professor Dr. Ueno, would walk to the Shibuya station every morning where Ueno would take the train to work. Hachiko would wait for him every afternoon at the same spot where Ueno bid him goodbye in the morning. One day Ueno didn’t return because he died suddenly at work from a brain hemorrhage.

Hachiko was unaware of course, and would go to the same spot every day at around 3pm for the train that Ueno used to take to come home. The station workers and commuters soon came to be touched by Hachiko’s loyalty and looked out for him when he came by. Hachiko was eventually taken in by Ueno family’s gardener but every day without fail the Akita would trek to Shibuya station to greet his owner.

This went on until Hachiko died, by then there were newspaper stories written about him. His death was mourned by the nation because he became a symbol of loyalty. There are a few famous statues of Hachiko and Ueno. Most famous is that of Hachiko himself in front of one entrance to Shibuya station. It’s become a tourist spot and landmark where people would meet for the first time on dates or reunions.

The photo of Hachiko waiting just outside the station gets me every time.

Doggie Day Care group photo.

I like the red one on the center right who is staring straight at the camera. What a face.

This picture (especially given our current environment) always causes me to tear

The above picture from 2012 has recently resurfaced, and the event it captured will probably bring tears to your eyes. The man in the wheelchair is 90-year-old World War 2 veteran, Archie Hackney. While Hackney is generally wheelchair bound, when he saw the President of the United States, he pushed himself up to stand for the Commander-in-Chief. This is the first time Hackney has ever met a sitting President.

“You don’t have to do that,” President Obama said as he saw Hackney standing.

“No sir,” Hackney replied, “You’re the President.”

The photo, two years later, still deeply resonates with people, which is probably why it has begun to go viral again.

R427, my eyes just got watery looking at that and reading it. Beautiful.

I also get watery-eyes at the sight of the current president, but that's probably the stench of sulfur and greasy fast food that emanate from the screen every time he appears.

When God wasn’t there.

R429, you can say the same when someone is being raped or tortured or beaten or shot or in a sweatshop or homeless or gets cancer or every other fucked up thing happening in the world.

Audrey Hepburn

The first Gay Pride Parade, 2 years after Stonewall.

Kamikaze pilots (aged 17-19) photographed the day before their suicide missions. Yukio Araki, the one holding the puppy, was the youngest kamikaze pilot to die during the war, having just turned seventeen two months before his death.

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I'll forever love these little boys

r433 I'm reminded of Empire of the Sun scene.

Falling Soldier by Robert Capa

I didn't realise that the photo's authenticity has been questioned since the 1970s, that it may have been staged.

21 year old face transplant patient Katie Stubblefield and her parents; this Nat Geo photo looks like a Baroque oil painting.

This was posted on Michelle's social media (without commentary) after Barack's second-term election victory; it's the most "liked" photo in Twitter history (suck it, Dotard!)

These two marines could not save their squaddie but they tried.

The last scene in this commercial.

^^ Espera Oscar de Corti, an Italian in redface

The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband. They weren’t allowed to be buried in the same lot, so she opted out of her family plot and chose to be buried as close to her husband as possible- just on the other side of the wall.

Taken in Holland 1888

I was wondering what was going on in the photo at R18. According to reddit, the women were at a feminist rally in Brazil. They were angry because the man had flashed his penis.

Iconic Life magazine cover of the 1960s

Fire captain saving a kid from a fire in Indiana

Some guys like to be dicks. Get him, ladies.

R128, I just love that photo. You can just tell from his expression that the dog thinks the crowd is there for him.

Green eyed Afghan boy

R446. Incredible!

Condom demonstration in Papua, 2009

Yes, he loves the attention, R448. I just happened to come across that photo recently.

This famous photograph, taken in 1951 ... depicts Craig walking down the street in Florence, being ogled by a crowd of men.

Fireman saved cat. Cat is appreciative.

This cat probably started the fire...

1977 Pulitzer winning photo of Attorney, Ted Landsmark, being beaten by a wolf pack of anti-busing protesters in Boston. Late for a meeting at City Hall, Landsmark, was set upon by the mob. One of his attackers, Joseph Rakes, swung a flag pole at Landsmark, who fell and was left bloodied with a broken nose. Landsmark, a Yale graduate, would go on to distinguish himself as a Professor at Northeastern University. Rakes, who served no time for the assault, would go on to beat to death the girlfried of his brother; he would serve no jail time for this crime either. Rakes is married with children.

Grand Central Terminal in 1954. I loved going here.

Time-Life books did a number on many of you. Herb Ritts

R435, I swear that just from your words, those two immediately came to mind even before I clicked on the link and saw that it was them. I've watched the video countless times.

French kids watching a puppet show of Saint George and the Dragon. This was taken when the dragon was killed.

This thread is truly why I love DL. All of these older pictures that I've never seen before. I mean obviously I've seen the iconic ones from the civil rights movement, but so many of the others are just amazing. T

Thank you, DLers.

I have this photo framed in my house. Hattie McDaniel has long been a favorite of mine. She was an amazing, complicated woman.

Apparently this happens so often that the guards are trained to rock on the feet so that their blood doesn’t pool. He missed the memo, apparently.

I was actually looking for a picture I once saw of the Queen, where she’s covered in diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, and the finest fabrics, and she has this infectious grin on her face where you can see her saying to herself, “I love my life”. I couldn’t find it quickly so I gave up.

Here’s a collection of pics of the Queen. I like the cover-shot of her testing an automatic weapon. Also, the 2015 picture Is the “I love my life” photo.

Imelda and Margaret

Lord Swinton once asked The Queen “Is it fun, ma’am?” and she surprised him by answering “Yes, it is fun!”.

Pillars Of Creation, NASA, 1995

The Eagle Nebula photographed from the Hubble Telescope. It's a star-forming patch of space 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens Cauda. The great smokestacks are vast clouds of interstellar dust, shaped by the high-energy winds blowing out from nearby stars (the black portion in the top right is from the magnification of one of Hubble’s four cameras). The formation is enormous — the pillars are 5 light-years, or 30 trillion miles, long.

Hmm. Posting on this thread has really slowed down.

I thought we'd reach 600 posts easily.

Too many cunts cunting about pics that have already been posted, r469. Or maybe it's just one cunt doing all that cunting. I don't know.

In any case, when that cunt starts vaginating, I tend to leave a thread. I imagine others do, too.

How can you not be moved?

Just incidentally, the 2019 photo in R464 shows the Queen hiding “her horse”, but that’s not a normal horse, it’s either a dwarf horse or a pony. I recall reading at the time that she had to down-size from a standard horse. I’m don’t know horses, so can only assume that she needed something that was easier to handle.

A crowd of stunned New Yorkers witness the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:59 am on September 11, 2001 -- Patrick Witty

The Queen and her aide were taking a walk one day when they happened upon a village person. The VP didn’t recognize the Queen and when she heard that they were from the Queen’s estate, she asked the Queen if she had ever met the Queen. The Queen pointed to her aide and replied, “No, but he has.”

There was some other story about the Queen rummaging around in her garden in the early morning hours. Apparently her whereabouts are normally known by her staff at all times, but not this time, and he security staff was about to tackle her, thinking she was an intruder.

Then there are all the stories about her running around, turning the lights out to save electricity.

There is a story about the state visit of Communist dictator Nikolai Chechesko of Rumania. He had been hosted in Paris at a former royal palace, and when they left, the French discovered that they had looted various royal antiques. The French President called the Queen while the dictator was on route, telling her, “they took everything”. So then, the Queen ran around the where ever they were hosting the Rumania leader, grabbing all the small antiques she could find and removing them from the location.

One last Queeny thing: despite the Queen being the most widely travelled British monarch, she never visited the USSR out of personal disapproval for the Communist rule, but also because of the 1918 murder of her cousins. That’s one long memory! She did finally visit Russia after the fall of Communism.

Bhopal gas tragedy:

The Starbucks in R473 looks like the one in the Potter Building at Park Row and Beekman Street, which is about a half mile away from the World Trade Center. Surely the dust cloud from the collapsed buildings reached that far. Those people better start running into nearby businesses.

R359, That photo of David Kirby and his family is incredibly moving. I don’t recall having seen it before, but am struck by how Christ-like Kirby appeared at the end.

R152, R169, the back story of the sculpture of The Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila, by Bernini, is the two central sculptural figures of the swooning nun and the angel with the spear derive from an episode described by Teresa of Avila, a mystical cloistered Discalced Carmelite reformer and nun, in her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus (1515–1582). Her experience of religious ecstasy in her encounter with the angel is described as follows:

[italic] I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying. [/italic]

The thing I find so fascinating about this vision that the Saint had, is the obvious sexual imagery in the vision as she describes it, and the complete absence of any commentary on that imagery, that I have ever found.

Mary McHugh mourns her dead fiancé James Regan in Arlington National Cemetery on May 27, 2007. Photograph by John Moore. Regan had been deployed multiple times to Afghanistan and Iraq. Early in 2007, when they had been planning to get married, he stepped on a roadside bomb and was killed.

Two young men kissing in a photo booth in the 1950s

this is what gay pride looks like

This one always grabs me.

For me (through the eyes of President Bush) it captured the monumental historic significance and the progress made by this nation because of the Obama election, and how we all genuinely wished him (and us) God's speed.

[quote]how we all

Not all, that cockroach infestation known as FOX almost immediately attempted to dump all of Bush's failures onto Obama from day 1. I'll never forget when they did.

"Death Fell From The Skies"

President Obama hugs an atomic bomb survivor

President Barack Obama hugs a woman who lost a loved one, during the memorial service for victims of the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, May 29, 2011.

President Obama hugs North Point Marina owner Donna Vanzant as he tours damage done by Hurricane Sandy in Brigantine, New Jersey, on Oct. 31, 2012.

Operation Desert Storm by David Turnley, 1991

Sgt. Ken Kozakiewicz cries as he learns the identity of the soldier in the body bag next to him. The fallen troop, 20-year-old Pvt. Andy Alaniz, was a close friend of Kozakiewicz's.

[quote] Nikolai Chechesko

Oh dear

Frances Farmer in October, 1942, when she thought the absolute worst thing that could happen to her was a DUI arrest and hearing......

Yarmouk Refugees by UNRWA, 2014

Palestinian refugees line up for food in Yarmouk, Damascus, Syria.

Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California -- photographed by Alon Reininger (1986)

Ken Meeks sits in his apartment in San Francisco, California, three days before his death from AIDS.

What is wrong with the guy's arm R492? OMG.

I would think it's Kaposi's sarcoma, R493, before there was effective treatment for AIDS.

China Social Suicide -- photographed by AFP, 2013.

A youngster jumping from Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province into the river following another person who committed suicide minutes before.

Young lady is thrilled beyond belief to meet popular jazz singer Billy Eckstine.

[quote] The thing I find so fascinating about this vision that the Saint had, is the obvious sexual imagery in the vision as she describes it, and the complete absence of any commentary on that imagery, that I have ever found.

R479, the sexual imagery was discussed in my art history class. (Ecstasy of St. Teresa.) I'm posting just one article of many. Google "Ecstasy of St. Teresa sexual aspect."

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An elderly couple in Lockerbie, Scotland stand outside their house where debris from Pan Am flight 103 has come crashing down from the skies above. The wife wears a tartan skirt and holds a push broom that she probably never in her wildest imaginings thought she’d use to sweep up the wreckage of a plane crash. Next to her is the stoic husband with his cane who stands in silence as he takes in the tragedy that has literally fallen before him.

R467 inspires me. Linked is the Hubble Deep Field. The Hubble telescope was pointed towards a small patch of space that was almost completely free of visible space objects. Over some period of time, the camera resolved over 3000 items, most of which were not individual stars, but were entire galaxies. This bolstered the theory that the universe is far larger than had ever been imagined before the modern age.

It was only in 1924 that Hubble concluded that the Andromeda cluster was not situated within the Milky Way, but was its own galaxy and located a previously inconceivable distance further away. Until that discovery, many astronomers believed that the Milky War was the only galaxy in existence, and that everything was located within it.

Today, we are at or near the limit of the observable universe. This means that we might expect that there are objects even further away than we can see, but these objects will never be seen because they are so far away, that light from those objects hasn’t had, and will never have, enough time to cross the universe and reach our telescopes or eyes. The history of astronomy has repeatedly found that we are not at the center of anything.

Life Magazine, 1966. Barbra Streisand doesn't like her singing and appearance on the just taped playback.

Funeral of Cobbin by Barbara Davidson, 2009

At the funeral of Cobbin, 17, father Edward J. Cobbin is comforted as he grieves his lost son, an innocent teen killed by gang members in front of his grandmother's house in Hawthorne, California. 's younger brothers are to the left.

[quote]Too many cunts cunting about pics that have already been posted, [R469]. Or maybe it's just one cunt doing all that cunting. I don't know.

[quote]In any case, when that cunt starts vaginating, I tend to leave a thread. I imagine others do, too.

True. Especially when a thread has more than 300 posts, it's understandable that new people may not want to check the whole thread before posting.

One of the most telling fingerprints left behind by the Big Bang is cosmic microwave background radiation. This thermal radiation was thought to be left over from the Big Bang itself. It fills the universe almost completely. I don’t personally understand all this, particularly how a two dimensional map represents a three dimensional event, but am still awed by this image of that fingerprint.

The current thinking by astronomers is that the Big Bang created both time and space, so there is no such thing as “before” the Big Bang. We naturally expect cause-and-effect, but in this case, it’s just nonsensical to think that way, Likewise, the four forces of gravity, electromagnetism, the string nuclear force and weak nuclear force, were all created after the Big Bang.

Astronomers also believe that very early on, the universe underwent “expansion” at greater than the speed of light. Nothing physical can go faster than light, but the expansion of space can, and did.

They also believe that all galaxies are essentially flying away from each other. How could that be possible? To imagine that, consider an air balloon, on which one a number of Xs are marked. If you blow the balloon up further, you can see that all the markings increase their distance from each other.

You know how skaters might form a line whip line while circling? The skaters at the center rotate slowly, while skaters at the end of the whip line are forced to skate very fast, as they whip-around the center? Astronomers would likewise expect that the stars at a great distance from the center of the Milky Way would require great speed to orbit the galaxy’s center, or they would be flung out of the universe. Instead, they find that these stars do not rotate at such great speed, and they don’t know why. Today, the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy are essentially placeholders until this mystery of the whip line is better understood,

I enjoy the poetry in the understanding that the Big Bang theory is completely consistent with the ancient myth that [italic] “God said, let there be light, and there was light”. [/italic]

Thanks, R497!

Baseball player with his son in the locker room after the game:

Camels in the Oil Fields by Steve McCurry (1991)

Ecological damage when Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi military to set hundreds of oil wells in Kuwait on fire during the Gulf War.

Kurd assassination, Iran, 1979:

Children killed in Gaza bombing:

This photo of Rafael Nadal changing on a yacht. There’s other photos of his full naked ass, but this one to me is mesmerizing. I love the peek of cheek. Yumm.

Twelve year old Brazilian boy playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral

[quote]Baseball player with his son in the locker room after the game.

As a young gayling, the chance to see the other players naked would be both wonderful and uncomfortable. Yes, I had to go there.

And to think we [italic]almost[/italic] made it to the end without any assography. r511

You obviously missed R3, R515.

Assography is an important branch of photography.

R3 is so beautiful, r516, I hardly noticed his ass. He is—was—the total package.

R518 Damn right. Damn fine.

A lot of you should be including backstories with these pictures because they're fascinating.

Like that Gunner @R3:

I love this photo of a rugby player visiting a girl in hospital in Dublin and showing her the six nations trophy his team just won.

The boy at R513 is Diego Frazão Torquato. He was a violin student at the Orquestra de Cordas, a social project of AfroReggae, coordinated by professor Evandro João da Silva.

Diego spent his childhood in Parada de Lucas, a poor neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. He faced many challenges. At the age of four, he had meningitis and pneumonia. Even so, he learned to play the violin through classes offered in the community by his teacher Evandro, coordinator of the social projects of the NGO AfroReggae.

On October 18, 2009, the music teacher was murdered in a robbery in downtown Rio.

Newspaper photographer Marcos Tristão attended the music teacher's funeral and took the picture. Among the dozens of students from the string orchestra who played at the funeral, the photographer's attention was particularly drawn to Diego because he let all his feelings show in that moment of homage to the teacher and cried while playing his violin.

Thanks for reposting that, r521. The assophiles may be chowing down on his presumptive hole. What I find breathtaking are his face and the totality of his nudity, not just the place where the shit comes out.

R521 OP specifically asked that people not say why. It would have been interesting to see a thread that was only images, and hopefully the link itself would provide any other information.

I wept tears of joy when this wooden statue of Melania in Sevnica, Slovenia was damaged by fire and had to be removed. It was an affront to art.

R526 I love the bugs landing on it. If it was realistic, though, they'd be burrowing in her cooch.

Vintage gays in Philadelphia.

Lol, R527.

It's the real thing.

I feel the same way about ketchup

Military dudes being inspected.

Military shower.

This one always scared the shit out of me.

Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory, Bangladesh

R525, well, fuck the OP, then.

The man who took his dying dog for a swim to help him sleep:

R538 This one always moves me to tears.

Widow Clara Gantt receives the remains of her husband who was killed in the Korean War sixty years earlier

This image will move me to tears of happiness on Jan 20, 2021

[quote][R521] OP specifically asked that people not say why. It would have been interesting to see a thread that was only images, and hopefully the link itself would provide any other information.

But the stories make the pictures even more fascinating. I mean that hot gunner - I'd never seen that picture before, but to know the reason he was naked makes it even more amazing. He went to go rescue a badly injured pilot in the water while Japanese were firing and then he immediately went back to his position at the gun. It is incredible and takes nothing away from the picture.

Okay, I chuckled when I first saw this (and, quite honestly it still makes me smile) but it is racist. I don't think it was meant to be though.

It was an ad ran by IKEA when the Obamas were moving into the the White House. "Well, well.. we're movin' on up!"

[quote] It was an ad ran by IKEA when the Obamas were moving into the the White House. "Well, well.. we're movin' on up!"

Oh, dear.

Another angle.

I think it's funny they didn't use an actual moving truck

^Get a load of the comedian....

Speaking of IKEA, the IKEA monkey was a bit of a wtf moment. Lol.

Sea otters hold hands to avoid floating away from each other. How cute.

Camel shadows. The white lines are the actual camels

[quote]R526 I love the bugs landing on it. If it was realistic, though, they'd be burrowing in her cooch.

I'll bet they spent a whole 200 euros on that statue.

Secret meeting of Grandmas

True love.

The Gates in Central Park, 2005

I was living in the city then and would go down to the park to walk through these. It was an interesting project, and didn’t stay too long- only a couple of weeks if I remember correctly.

R553, Looks more like the secret Ugly Christmas Sweater Club.

This bothered me a great deal when I was little.

China 1946.

Prince George, in his robe and slippers, meeting President Obama

A DL staple...

For those into interior design as I am, this is one of the most iconic pic: Pauline de Rothschild by Horst.

Very cute gif of Doris Day with Rod Taylor. Just had to post it!

I think Doris Day and the Queen are running neck and neck for the most photos in the thread.

Mother Teresa, a Light to the world in the 20th Century.

This guy had a long standing pact with his best friend that when one of them died, the other would wear a bright colored dress and socks to the funeral. The friend was killed in Afghanistan, and this is a photo of his buddy honoring their agreement.

From Scotland, 2009

r564 😢

Navy crewman on a PT boat in the Pacific

R534, what the fuck is that?

I ain’t clicking the link.

Jesus!

Wow. Cocaine Kate looked fabulous.

Kate Moss in the March 2010 issue of Harper's Bazaar.

Children of thalidomide go swimming

Pie face

Man giving his sandals to a homeless girl in Rio

Bamiyan Buddhas. Carved in the 6th century. Dynamited by the Taliban in the 21st century.

I went to elementary school with a Thalidomide kid in the late 80s.

He was such an asshole. Seriously.

Mother Theresa was vile. Humorless, unpleasant, fake, and a sadist.

^Christopher Hitchens from the grave

Gaza

Post-mosh pit Trent Reznor during Nine Inch Nails' set -- Woodstock '94.

Bianca Jagger

Che Guevara, captured pretty much accidentally during the mass funeral of victims of a suspicious 1960 freighter explosion (Fidel Castro blamed the US). As the photographer was taking photos of Castro delivering the eulogy, Guevara appeared in the shot for a couple of seconds. He only appears in two frames; one of which the photographer called " Guerrillero Heroico", and is the basis for the most iconic image of Che.

The eternal, mysterious, majestic Sphinx. I'd love to see it and the Great Pyramid someday!

A bald eagle perched on the tombstone of a soldier at Fort Snelling (not Arlington, contrary to popular belief) cemetery, captured on Memorial Day.

Unbought and unbossed.

Charles and Diana, allegedly during their honeymoon. This is the most affection I've ever seen them display towards one another; they look genuinely happy and in love.

Paris, August 1997, just before the crash

[bold]BEFORE[/bold] she ruined Christmas.

Flowers for a Princess.

This many:

106-year-old Virginia Mclaurin meeting up with the Obamas at the WH. The Youtube video of her dancing at the WH is a joy to watch.

OMG, R589. I just looked up the video. Love her!

BTW, she's still alive! 111 years old.

Australian bushfires 2020.

Honestly, before I clicked on R588, I thought that was a giant dick.

R553 Granny on the left is ready to fuck someone up.

Koalas in laundry baskets 2020.

Beachgoers in the South of France

Flying goats!

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r590. Not to mention the dishy marine (?) in the opening seconds. All those metals!

What a stunning thread!