Iconic photographs

[littlepup]

Green Boots - though not formally identified they believe it to be Tsewang Paljor.
The BBC did a good long article on him, his background and the Everest allure. Interesting reading. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20151008-the-tragic-story-of-mt-everests-most-famous-dead-body
They’ve moved him to a more secluded location now. There are around 200 bodies up there (plus a lot of rubbish). It’s quite a controversial issue.

Very recently there was a ‘fresh’ body right next to the path to the summit, lots of pictures circulated and it caused a big controversy about the ethics of Everest these days, particularly after David Sharp who allegedly could have been rescued if people would have abandoned their own attempts to summit to properly help (personally think he was the master of his own fate there).
There are a lot of images of bodies on Everest. Hannalore Schmatz is particularly haunting.

 

[Rosie glow]

Wreckage from the twin towers located in duxford air museum seeing it actually moved me to tears

 

[Hollaaa]

I felt that same when I saw part of the Towers at the Imperial War Museum North. I've left the people in shot, for scale. I wasn't expecting to see it and it really took the wind out of my sails. The fact that the shape is reminiscent of flames really got to me, and the shadow being cast giving the effect of a missing twin.

Spoiler: Merail

For a while the towers were the main view from my dining table when I lived in NY, I grew up in Salford with photos of the skyline on my bedroom wall, and it was so incongruous seeing part of them there, being confronted with the material reality of the attacks in the wrong version of 'home' - I don't live in either place any more, and both places as I knew them don't exist any more.

 

[childofthe70s]

This photo is iconic in its simplicity, but the faces say it all. The man who took it (Jim Marshall) also took a lot of cool photos from the world of music. Some you can see some of them here. https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jim-marshall-photography-hendrix-jim-morrison-877448/

 

[MaineCoonMama]

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This photo is iconic in its simplicity, but the faces say it all. The man who took it (Jim Marshall) also took a lot of cool photos from the world of music. Some you can see some of them here. https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jim-marshall-photography-hendrix-jim-morrison-877448/

That was a day that definitely changed history. I wasn't alive then but my mum (who lived in Canada at the time) told me about the absolute shock and disbelief that went through North America at the time.
Very powerful photograph.

 

[Chocolategoggler]

 

[MaineCoonMama]

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That's absolutely crazy! I love it.

 

[HowlOwl]

Nan Goldwin, Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, New York 1991. I find this picture so striking and beautiful. I have no strong feelings either way regarding trans or drag queens, just think it’s a great photo

. Here’s a link to more info. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/goldin-misty-and-jimmy-paulette-in-a-taxi-nyc-p78046

 

[littlepup]

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Don’t know why they bothered to edit it, still funny with the origional.

 

[Chocolategoggler]

 

[Metropolis]

Photography is one of the art forms I appreciate most and I love the 1920s to 1950s era, particularly silver-gelatine prints. Recently, I acquired some of the archive of a New York based photographer and amongst the photos were some from the 1933 Chicago World Fair and the 1939 San Francisco World Fair. To me, they are iconic in capturing the architecture, clean lines and modernist influence of the time.
Here are a couple of them:

Chicago World Fair

San Francisco World Fair (2 Photos):

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Photography is one of the art forms I appreciate most and I love the 1920s to 1950s era, particularly silver-gelatine prints. Recently, I acquired some of the archive of a New York based photographer and amongst the photos were some from the 1933 Chicago World Fair and the 1939 San Francisco World Fair. To me, they are iconic in capturing the architecture, clean lines and modernist influence of the time.
Here are a couple of them:

Chicago World Fair
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San Francisco World Fair (2 Photos):
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Wow these are so striking! Going by your username, do they remind you of the film Metropolis?

 

[Metropolis]

Wow these are so striking! Going by your username, do they remind you of the film Metropolis?

Your observation is spot on @Sideboard Bob ! That era fascinates me so much - if I had a time machine, I would head there for sure

 

[zetta buttons]

Not iconic compared to some but in terms of representating the mundanity of British life, definitely iconic. This is in Wallsend and is from an Instagram account @built.for.obsolescence.

Something about the telephone pole made this stand out.

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Your observation is spot on @Sideboard Bob ! That era fascinates me so much - if I had a time machine, I would head there for sure

It was on my mind because this picture popped up on Twitter the other day.

The set from the movie, now preserved in a German museum!

I can understand your fascination, that style of art and design is somehow futuristic and timeless at the same time.

 

[HowlOwl]

60 years ago, this month, there was a day in Dallas …

 

[HaloGirl]

This image always makes me sad.
(John F Kennedy Jr aged 3 saluting his father.)

 

[childofthe70s]

Your observation is spot on @Sideboard Bob ! That era fascinates me so much - if I had a time machine, I would head there for sure

It's fantastic. As is this from 1902
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I adore Yann Arthus-Bertrand's work - his aerial photographs to documentaries. I used to have this book and images from it on my walls - still blows my mind how they were taken. This one was a cover from the book and is the Heart in Voh, New Caledonia (French Overseas Territory) taken in 1992. The heart is a natural clearing formed by the mangroves.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Lunch atop a skyscraper. Taken when the Rockefeller centre was being built. When you go there you can recreate it by sitting on a metal beam with a screen underneath that makes you think you’re suspended hundreds of feet above the air. My mum almost had a panic attack as she hates heights

 

[Metropolis]

It was on my mind because this picture popped up on Twitter the other day.

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The set from the movie, now preserved in a German museum!

I can understand your fascination, that style of art and design is somehow futuristic and timeless at the same time.

I’d love to go and see that! It’s amazing how influential and insightful those artists and architects of a hundred years ago turned out to be.