World Famous Photographs ~ EinTech

World Famous Photographs

There are so many famous Photographs around the world but very few of them are remembered and few of those photographs and story behind them for you.....

1. Afghan Girl ( 1984 )

Sharbat Gula was born in 1972. She is an Afghan woman who was the subject of National Geography Photographer Steve McCurry at refugee camp. Sharbat was one of the student in an informal school within the refigee camp. Steve , rarely was given the opportunity to capture the image of a afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years at that time. In the next year the Photograph was printed on the cover page of National Geography and her identity was discovered in 1992. She was well known as " The Afghan Mona Lisa "

2. Omayra Sánchez ( 1985 )

Omayra Sánchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985.The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days.The picture was taken shortly before she died and it caused controversy due to the photographer’s work and the Colombian government’s inaction in the midst of the tragedy, when it was published worldwide after the young girl’s death. You Can also find the Video of her in You Tube saying her last words.

3.Marilyn Monroe's skirt Up ( 1954 )

Marilyn Monroe wore a white dress in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder. The dress was created by costume designer William Travilla and was worn in one of the best-known scenes in the movie.The dress is regarded as an icon of film history and the image of Monroe in the white dress standing above a subway grating blowing the dress up has been described as one of the iconic images of the 20th century.

4.Stricken child crawling towards a food camp ( 1994 )

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.

5.Napalm Girl Phan Thi Kim Phuc ( 1972 )

Phan Thi Kim Phuc, born in 1963 is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack.

6.Vietnam war ( 1968 )

Adams, a veteran war photographer, covered the Vietnam War from 1965 until 1975, when the US forces were driven out.A Vietcong expires, February 5, 1968 records the street corner killing of a civilian by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Chief of the South Vietnamese National Police, at the beginning of the Vietcong's Tet offensive in 1968.

7.Bliss ( ~2000 )

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.The photograph was taken by the professional photographer Charles O’Rear, a resident of St. Helena in Napa County, for digital-design company HighTurn. O’Rear has also taken photographs of Napa Valley for the May 1979 National Geographic Magazine article Napa, Valley of the Vine.O’Rear’s photograph inspired Windows XP’s US$ 200 million advertising campaign Yes you can.

8.Burning Monk - Self-Immolation ( 1963 )

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.Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion. While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.

9.Tiananmen Square Protests ( 1989 )

This Famous photo was taken on 5 June 1989 by photographer Jeff Widener, shows the PLA's advancing tanks halting for an unknown man near Tiananmen Square.

10. V-J Day Kiss Times Square ( 1945 )

V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) in Times Square, New York City, on August 14, 1945.

There are many more photographs which change the vision of the world. Please comment on this....