Showing posts with label telling stories with pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label telling stories with pictures. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 April 2018

Eugen Sandow, Father of the Modern Body Building



Eugen Sandow, who might later stand out forever as "the Father of Modern Bodybuilding", would come to challenge that idea. Initially conceived as Friedrich Muller, this German local built up his build with the goal that his gathering of people could likewise value his fine musculature while he completed what was then called "muscle show exhibitions". Sandow was popular, for his unimaginable quality as well as for his finely chiseled physique. Aside from lifting the standard substantial weights, Sandow's shows (ordinarily performed on a phase worked by his supervisor Florenz Ziegfield) likewise included "The Strongest Man in the World" utilizing his very much sharpened muscles and representing his solid constitution amid weightlifting interims.

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Saturday, 11 February 2017

Super photo story of The Afghan Mona Lisa, 1984

In this super photo story i will share with you the photo story of "The Afghan Mona Lisa"



Three decades back, Steve McCurry took seemingly the most famous photo ever. 

However even after this time, the pre-prominent picture taker overflows with eagerness when he discusses "Afghan Girl." 

"I knew she had an inconceivable look, an entering look," he reviews. 

"Be that as it may, there was a horde of individuals around us, the tidy was twirling around, and it was before computerized cameras and you never recognized what might occur with the film. 

"When I built up the photo, I knew it was exceptional. I demonstrated it to the editorial manager of the National Geographic, and he jumped to his feet and yelled, 'that is our next cover'." 

Not exclusively did "Afghan Girl" turn into the magazine's next cover, yet the best in its recognized history. 

The striking representation of 12-year-old Sharbat Gula, a Pashtun vagrant in the Nasir Bagh displaced person camp on the Afghan-Pakistan fringe, was taken in December 1984 and distributed the next year. 

The lady, now in her forties, has as of late been observed to live in Pakistan. 

I trust that when you discover something you cherish, you ought to do it your entire life 

Steve McCurry, picture taker 

At the point when McCurry reflects upon its prevalence, what energizes him more than anything else is the effect that this single picture has had on this present reality. 

"Individuals volunteered to work in the outcast camps on account of that photo," he says. "Afghans are fantastically pleased with it, as the young lady is poor yet demonstrates incredible pride, strength and confidence. 

"It attracted consideration regarding their predicament, and motivated many people." 

It likewise drove the National Geographic to set up the Afghan Children's Fund - and implied that right up 'til the present time, McCurry is never charged a passage by thankful Afghan cab drivers.

Friday, 10 February 2017

Spyros Louis, the 1st marathon race champ of the Modern Olympic Games, 1896

Spyridon Louis, a formerly unrecognized water bearer, won the occasion to end up distinctly the main Greek games champion and a national saint.





At the point when the cutting edge Olympics started in 1896, the initiators and coordinators were searching for an awesome advancing occasion, reviewing the old brilliance of Greece. The possibility of a marathon race was brought about by Michel Bréal in light of the legend of Pheidippides. This Athenian warrior initially finished a two-day rushed to look for Spartan help against the attacking Persians in the Battle of Marathon, and afterward kept running from the town of Marathon to Athens days after the fact to declare the triumph, biting the dust thus of his gallant endeavors.

The race began in Marathon, and kept running for 40 kilometers over dusty streets to Athens. The early pioneer of the race, which drove over dusty earth streets along which throngs of Greeks had accumulated to watch, was the Frenchman Albin Lermusiaux, who had prior set third in the 1500 meters. In the town of Pikermi, Louis made a stop at a nearby motel to drink a glass of wine. (Louis' grandson, additionally Spiridon Louis, said this is erroneous; that his granddad's better half gave him a large portion of an orange and right away subsequently he "got a glass of cognac from his future father in law".) After requesting the benefit of alternate runners, he certainly proclaimed he would surpass them all before the end.

After 32 km, Lermusiaux was depleted and relinquished the race. The lead was assumed control by Edwin Flack, an Australian who won the 800 and 1500 m races. Louis gradually surrounded Flack. The Australian, not used to running long separations, broken down a couple of kilometers onwards, giving Louis the lead. In the stadium, the environment was tense, particularly after a cyclist brought the news that the Australian was ahead of the pack. Be that as it may, another delegate was conveyed by the police when Louis moved into the lead, and as the word spread that it was a Greek that drove the race, the cry "Hellene, Hellene!" was taken up by a large number of blissful onlookers. At the point when Louis at long last landed in a stadium emitting with delight, two Greek sovereigns – Crown Prince Constantine and Prince George – raced to meet him and went with him on his last lap for a completing time of 2:58:50.

After his triumph, Louis got blessings from numerous comrades, going from adornments to a long lasting free shave at the hairstyling parlor. It is obscure if Louis took every one of these blessings, in spite of the fact that he took back home the carriage he had asked of the lord. He withdrew to the place where he grew up, never again contending in running. He carried on with a calm life, filling in as a rancher, and later as a nearby cop. Forty years after his marathon gold, four years before his demise, Louis reviewed the minutes after his triumph: "That hour was something unbelievable regardless it appears to me in my memory like a fantasy… Twigs and blossoms were descending upon me. Everyone was getting out my name and tossing their caps noticeable all around".

Saturday, 4 February 2017

American Soldiers With Japanese Skull In WW2 , 1944

The mutilation of Japanese administration faculty incorporated the taking of body parts as "war keepsakes" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most generally taken "trophies", albeit other body parts were likewise gathered.



Various firsthand records, including those of American servicemen, authenticate the taking of "trophies" from the cadavers of Imperial Japanese troops in the Pacific Theater amid World War II. Students of history have ascribed the marvel to a crusade of dehumanization of the Japanese in the U.S. media, to different supremacist tropes idle in American culture, to the evil of fighting under urgent conditions, to the brutal remorselessness of Imperial Japanese powers, desire for reprisal, or any mix of those elements. The taking of supposed "trophies" was far reaching enough that, by September 1942, the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet requested that "No part of the foe's body might be utilized as a trinket", and any American servicemen disregarding that standard would confront "stern disciplinary activity". 

U.S., there was a generally engendered see that the Japanese were subhuman. There was additionally prevalent outrage at the Japanese astonishment assault on Pearl Harbor, opening up pre-war racial partialities. The U.S. media engendered this perspective of the Japanese, for instance depicting them as "yellow vermin". In an authority U.S. Naval force film, Japanese troops were portrayed as "living, growling rats". The blend of hidden American bigotry, which was added to by U.S. wartime promulgation, disdain brought about by the Japanese war of hostility, and both genuine and furthermore manufactured Japanese abominations, prompted to a general despising of the Japanese. In spite of the fact that there were complaints to the mutilation from among other military legal advisers, "to numerous Americans the Japanese foe was close to a creature, and mishandle of his remaining parts conveyed with it no ethical shame". 

As indicated by student of history Niall Ferguson: "To the antiquarian who has had some expertise in German history, this is a standout amongst the most upsetting parts of the Second World War: the way that Allied troops regularly respected the Japanese similarly that Germans respected Russians — as Untermenschen". Since the Japanese were viewed as creatures, it is not amazing that Japanese remains were dealt with in an indistinguishable path from creature remains. Another student of history Simon Harrison reaches the conclusion. "Skull trophies of the Pacific War: transgressive objects of recognition", that the minority of U.S. faculty who gathered Japanese skulls did as such in light of the fact that they originated from a general public that set much an incentive in chasing as an image of manliness, consolidated with a de-acculturation of the foe.


Thursday, 2 February 2017

Living Photographs, photos made by collecting mariners and officers, 1918

Living Photographs, photos made by collecting mariners and officers, 1918









A huge number of warriors, reservists and different individuals from the military were organized to frame huge arrangements. In spite of the fact that if saw starting from the earliest stage from straightforwardly over, these masses of men would seem inane, when seen from the highest point of a 80-foot seeing tower, they plainly gave off an impression of being different energetic shapes. 

Right around a century prior and without the guide of any pixel-producing PC programming, the nomad picture taker Arthur Mole and his partner John D. Thomas utilized an intriguing method to organize a progression of remarkable mass photographic displays that choreographed living bodies into typical developments of religious and national group. In these mass decorations, a large number of military troops and different gatherings were organized shrewdly to frame American enthusiastic images, insignias, and military emblem obvious from a 10,000 foot viewpoint. Amid World War I, these military developments came to fill in as encouraging focuses to bolster American association in the war and to avert neutralist propensities.


Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Australian troopers after their discharge from Japanese imprisonment in Singapore, 1945


Five Australian previous detainees of war of the Japanese unwind some tea and a daily paper after the Japanese surrender. The merciless treatment exacted upon these men by their Japanese captors is unmistakably outlined by their poor physical condition. 

These detainees were hung on the Changi POW camp. Frequently thought to be synonymous with loathsomeness it was in truth a generally agreeable camp, in any event contrasted with those on Borneo, Ambon, Hainan, Japan and the Thai–Burma railroad. The Japanese utilized the POW's at Changi for constrained work. Men were made to work in the docks where they stacked weapons onto ships. They were likewise used to clear sewers harmed in the assault on Singapore. As the finish of the Pacific War drew closer, apportions to the POW's were decreased radically. To be all the more absolutely apportion scales were decreased notwithstanding for the Japanese as resupply from outside Malaya/Singapore turned out to be more troublesome as the war advanced. It must be noticed that in the meantime Japanese cutting edge troops were biting the dust of starvation in New Guinea (and turning barbarian if onlooker records are to be accepted). 

People encountering starvation lose considerable fat and bulk as the body separates these tissues for vitality. Contingent upon the level of starvation the full recuperation may take the length of one year. There have been situations when detainees have kicked the bucket from eating an excess of a while later. This is called Refeeding Syndrome which is a disorder comprising of metabolic unsettling influences that happen therefore of reinstitution of nourishment to patients who are famished or extremely malnourished. That is the reason recouping patients are just to be given water, drain, and squeezes for the initial 3-5 days of recuperation. 

At the point when people who are starving all of a sudden get given a group of sustenance, their body changes rapidly from eating itself to reconstructing. This causes huge movements of minerals out of the blood and into the cells, and blood levels plunge, where beforehand they were by and large falsely kept up. It's really got a death rate of around 20%. The greater part of the exploration on it was done after every one of these people escaping POW camps were loaded down with nourishment and kicked the bucket as opposed to recouping. They have to gradually take starving individuals back to typical calorie eating methodologies, and watch their blood science intently. 

The daily paper the warrior was perusing is "Every day Express", dated September fifth, 1945. The feature: "30th Day in Hiroshima: Those who got away start to bite the dust, casualties of – The Atomic Plague". Picture.

Monday, 30 January 2017

Transient Mother, 1936



.Dorothea Lange took this photo in 1936, while utilized by the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) program, shaped amid the Great Depression to bring issues to light of and give help to ruined agriculturists. In Nipomo, California, Lange went over Florence Owens Thompson and her youngsters in a camp loaded with field laborers whose vocations were crushed by the disappointment of the pea crops. Reviewing her experience with Thompson years after the fact, she stated: "I saw and drew nearer the eager and frantic mother, as though drawn by a magnet. I don't recollect how I clarified my nearness or my camera to her, however I do recall that she posed no inquiries. I made five exposures, working closer and nearer from a similar course". 

While Thompson's personality was not known for more than 40 years after the photographs were taken, the pictures got to be distinctly popular. The 6th picture, particularly, which later got to be distinctly known as Migrant Mother, "has accomplished close legendary status, symbolizing, if not characterizing, a whole period in United States history." Roy Stryker called Migrant Mother "a definitive" photograph of the Depression Era: "[Lange] never outperformed it. To me, it was the photo … The others were great, however that was unique… She is interminable". Overall, the photos taken for the Resettlement Administration "have been generally proclaimed as the embodiment of narrative photography". Edward Steichen depicted them as "the most surprising human records ever rendered in pictures". 

Thompson's character was found in the late 1970s. Thompson fessed up and imparted that she saw the photograph to blended feelings: on one hand, she was cheerful it conveyed consideration and support to the territory, however on the other, she never benefitted from the photograph. To her, it was to a greater extent an indication of how awful things got and how she made plans to never be that poor again. 

The main advantage they picked up from the photograph came toward the finish of Florence's life. In 1983, she was experiencing growth and a current stroke, and the cost of her care was demonstrating untenable for her family. They put out an open interest, requesting assets to help nurture the "Vagrant Mother" back to wellbeing. Gifts poured in from the nation over, joined by letters from individuals who had drawn quality and motivation from the photograph of Florence. The interest raised more than $35,000. Florence passed on of "tumor and heart issues" at Scotts Valley, California, on September 16, 1983. Her tombstone peruses: "Florence Leona Thompson: Migrant Mother – A Legend of the Strength of American Motherhood".

Sunday, 29 January 2017

German commandos caught in American uniform are set up for execution, 1944



The officers in the photo were executed after a military trial discovered them on infringement of the Hague tradition concerning land fighting, article 23: "It's particularly taboo [… ], to make despicable utilization of a banner of ceasefire, of the national banner or of the military emblem and uniform of the adversary". Their main goal was a piece of the Operation Greif ordered by the celebrated Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny amid the Battle of the Bulge. The operation was the brainchild of Adolf Hitler, and its motivation was to catch at least one of the scaffolds over the Meuse waterway before they could be annihilated. German troopers, wearing caught British and US Army outfits and utilizing caught Allied vehicles, were to bring about perplexity in the back of the Allied lines. An absence of vehicles, outfits, and gear restricted the operation and it never accomplished its unique point of securing the Meuse spans. 

So incredible was the disarray brought on by Operation Greif that the US Army saw spies and saboteurs all over the place. Maybe the biggest frenzy was made when a German commando group was caught close Aywaille on 17 December. Containing Unteroffizier Manfred Pernass, Oberfähnrich Günther Billing, and Gefreiter Wilhelm Schmidt (appeared in the photo), they were caught when they neglected to give the right watchword. It was Schmidt who offered assurance to talk that Skorzeny expected to catch General Dwight Eisenhower and his staff. 

An archive sketching out Operation Greif's components of double dealing (however not its targets) had prior been caught and in light of the fact that Skorzeny was at that point surely understood for saving Italian tyrant Benito Mussolini (Operation Oak or Unternehmen Eiche) and Operation Panzerfaust, the Americans were more than willing to trust this story and Eisenhower was supposedly unamused by spending Christmas 1944 secluded for security reasons. Following a few days of restriction, he exited his office, indignantly announcing he needed to get out and that he couldn't have cared less on the off chance that anybody attempted to kill him. 

Pernass, Billing, and Schmidt were given a military trial at Henri-Chapelle on 21 December and were sentenced to death and executed by a terminating squad on 23 December. After World War II, Skorzeny was attempted as a war criminal at the Dachau Trials in 1947 for supposedly abusing the laws of war amid the Battle of the Bulge. He and nine officers of the Panzerbrigade 150 were accused of dishonorably utilizing American garbs "by going into battle camouflaged therewith and misleadingly terminating upon and slaughtering individuals from the military of the United States". They were additionally accused of cooperation in wrongfully acquiring U.S. garbs and Red Cross bundles entrusted to American detainees of war from a captive camp. 

Absolving all litigants, the military tribunal drew a qualification between utilizing foe regalia amid battle and for different purposes including misdirection; it couldn't be demonstrated that Skorzeny had really given any requests to battle in U.S. regalia. Skorzeny said that he was told by German lawful specialists that the length of he didn't arrange his men to battle in battle while wearing U.S. outfits, such a strategy was a genuine stratagem of war. Skorzeny got away from an internment camp in 1948, hanging out on a Bavarian homestead for year and a half, then invested energy in Paris and Salzburg before in the long run settling in Spain. 

The infiltrators being executed. Therefore of this mission, American troops started asking different officers addresses that they felt just Americans would know the responses to so as to flush out the German infiltrators, which included naming certain states' capitals, games and trivia questions identified with America, and so forth.



Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima





This Pulitzer-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal catches six men raising the American banner at Iwo Jima amid World War 2. The American government utilized this picture to rouse the whole country. The war was a long way from being over and three of these six men had lost their lives. Presently, in the event that they all bite the dust in the war, the moving message that the administration was attempting to send crosswise over would not stay motivating any longer. In this way, they attempted to protect the staying three. Two consented to leave the war. The 6th man, Ira Hayes declined to get safeguarded. Yet, he was expelled from battle. When he understood that his companions had kicked the bucket in the war, he spent whatever is left of his life in persistent regret. In the interim, Rosenthal would be blamed for organizing the scene for his photo and he would safeguard it as good fortune. It was truth be told, an extraordinary call by Rosenthal and without a doubt, good fortune.

Super Photo Story Of Charismatic Che Guevara

Super photo story of charismatic Che Guevara



René Burri and his tutor Henri Cartier-Bresson were in Cuba for a task for Life magazine. They were denied close access to Che. Along these lines, Burri ran with three cameras. Indeed, even the blinds of the room where this photo was taken were drawn in light of the fact that Che was the second-most vital man in Cuba. 

Every week at the Magnum workplaces in Paris, Henri Cartier-Bresson would survey the contact sheets put together by more youthful picture takers coming back from assignments. It was an overwhelming background, not slightest in light of the fact that Cartier-Bresson had an impossible to miss method for evaluating, where he would pivot the contact sheet gradually, taking a gander at it topsy turvy and from every single conceivable edge, concentrate the arrangement and investigating the substance. 

René Burri understood that with Che's photos, the evaluate would be more sharp than any time in recent memory (Cartier-Bresson himself was in Cuba for a Life task at the same time with Burri, however was denied nearer access to Che). Burri needed to ensure that he didn't miss a shot. He went on the task with three cameras, and submitted to his guide a composite contact sheet. It was hazy whether Mr. Cartier-Bresson got this sleight of hand. 

Laura Bergquist, a star journalist with Look magazine, had met Che Guevara at the UN in October 1962, after the Cuban rocket emergency. She irritated him so much that he advised her: "In the event that you get consent from the CIA or the Pentagon, you are welcome to Cuba, and I will demonstrate to you what is truly going on." She got the green light from the Americans – and I ran with her. 

We touched base at Che's office on the eighth floor of the Hotel Riviera in Havana. Around then he was the number-two man in Cuba – he was the priest for industry, and chief of the Banco Nacional. His face was on the two peso note. I saw the blinds were drawn and, after we were presented, I asked him in French: "Che, would I be able to open the blinds? I require some light." But he said no. I thought, well, it's your face, not mine. 

Quickly, Bergquist and Che began an irate ideological dogfight. She needed to reclaim a story for the Americans, who were still irate about the upset, and he was attempting to persuade her that what happened needed to happen. For more than two hours I could simply move around them with my camera. It was an unfathomable chance to shoot Che in a wide range of circumstances: grinning, enraged, from the back, from the front. I spent eight moves of film. He didn't take a gander at me once, he was so connected with attempting to persuade her with maps and diagrams. She was a chain-smoker, and he sporadically lit up one of his stogies.

Saturday, 28 January 2017

Ridiculous Saturday - a crying Chinese child in the midst of the besieged out vestiges of Shanghai's South Railway Station, 1937



"Wicked Saturday" – Depicting a Chinese infant crying inside the bombarded out vestiges of Shanghai South Railway Station, the photo got to be distinctly known as a social symbol showing Japanese wartime outrages in China. Taken a couple of minutes after a Japanese air assault on regular folks amid the Battle of Shanghai, Hearst Corporation picture taker H. S. "Newsreel" Wong, did not find the personality or even the sex of the harmed tyke, whose mother lay dead adjacent. A standout amongst the most paramount war photos ever distributed, and maybe the most popular newsreel scene of the 1930s, the picture animated an overflowing of western outrage against Japanese viciousness in China. Columnist Harold Isaac called the famous picture "a standout amongst the best promulgation bits ever". 

Wong shot film of the besieged out South Station with his Eyemo newsreel camera, and he brought a few still photos with his Leica. The renowned still picture, taken from the Leica, is not regularly alluded to by name—rather, its visual components are depicted. It has likewise been called Motherless Chinese Baby, Chinese Baby, and The Baby in the Shanghai Railroad Station. 

Amid the Battle of Shanghai, part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese military powers progressed upon and assaulted Shanghai, China's most crowded city. Wong dropped from the housetop to the road, where he got into his auto and drove rapidly toward the demolished railroad station. When he arrived, he noted bloodletting and perplexity: 

"It was a frightful sight. Individuals were all the while attempting to get up. Dead and harmed lay strewn over the tracks and stage. Appendages lay everywhere. Just my work helped me overlook what I was seeing. I ceased to reload my camera. I saw that my shoes were splashed with blood. I strolled over the railroad tracks, and made many long scenes with the cutting off overhead tie out of sight. At that point I saw a man get an infant from the tracks and convey him to the stage. He backpedaled to get another severely harmed kid. The mother lay dead on the tracks. As I recorded this disaster, I heard the sound of planes returning. Rapidly, I shot my staying couple of feet [of film] on the infant. I kept running toward the tyke, expecting to convey him to security, however the father returned. The aircraft passed overhead. No bombs were dropped." 

Wong never found the name of the smoldered and crying infant, regardless of whether it was a kid or a young lady, or whether it survived. The following morning, he took the film from his Leica camera to the workplaces of China Press, where he indicated extensions to Malcolm Rosholt, saying, "Take a gander at this one!". Wong later composed that the following morning's daily papers announced that somewhere in the range of 1,800 individuals, for the most part ladies and kids, had been holding up at the railroad station, and that the IJN pilots had likely mixed up them for a troop development. The Shanghai papers said that less than 300 individuals survived the assault. In October of that year, Life magazine detailed around 200 dead. 

Intriguing actualities: 

1. Ridiculous Saturday photo was distributed generally in September–October 1937 and in under a month had been seen by more than 136 million watchers. 

2. The photo was upbraided by Japanese patriots who contended that it was arranged. The Japanese government put an abundance of $50,000 on Wong's head: a sum equal to $820,000 in 2015. 

3. Amid the Second Sino-Japanese war Chinese sources list the aggregate number of military and non-military setbacks, both dead and injured, at 35 million. Most Western history specialists trusted that the aggregate number of setbacks was no less than 20 million.

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Fail attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan

Fail attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan




Story Behind This photo is 
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It was March 30, 1981 and U.S President Ronald Reagan was only 69 days into his presidency. After giving a speech in Hilton Hotel Washington president was struck by a bullet which was fired by John Hinckley, Jr. Three other peoples including Press Secretary James Brady, Washington police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Svc. Agent Tim McCarthy were shot.

Agent Robert Wanko (misidentified as “Steve Wanko” in a newspaper report) took an Uzi sub machine gun from a briefcase to cover the President’s evacuation and to deter a potential group attack.

Hinckley’s path toward the assassination attempt began in 1976 when he saw the movie Taxi Driver. Robert DeNiro’s Travis Bickle stalks a Presidential candidate in the hopes that he will somehow impress and rescue a young prostitute played by Jodie Foster. Hinckley, who spent seven years in college without earning a degree or making a friend, added Foster to his list of obsessions.
Over the following years, Hinckley trailed Foster around the country, going so far as to enroll in a writing course at Yale University in 1980 after reading in People magazine that she was a student there. He wrote numerous letters and notes to her in late 1980. He called her twice and refused to give up when she indicated that she was not interested in him.
Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21, 1982. The defense psychiatric reports had found him to be insane while the prosecution reports declared him legally sane. Following his lawyers’ advice, he declined to take the stand in his own defense. Hinckley was confined at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. full time until 2006, at which point he began a program of spending gradually more time at his mother’s home. On September 10, 2016, Hinckley was permitted to permanently leave the hospital to live with his mother full time, under court supervision and with mandatory psychiatric treatment. After his trial, he wrote that the shooting was “the greatest love offering in the history of the world”, and did not then indicate regrets.



A symbol of resistance : The Tank Man

A symbol of resistance : The Tank Man



On the morning of June 5, 1989, photographer Jeff Widener was perched on a sixth-floor balcony of the Beijing Hotel. It was a day after the Tienanmen Square massacre, when Chinese troops attacked pro-democracy demonstrators camped on the plaza, and the Associated Press sent Widener to document the aftermath. As he photographed bloody victims, passersby on bicycles and the occasional scorched bus, a column of tanks began rolling out of the ­plaza. Widener lined up his lens just as a man carrying shopping bags stepped in front of the war machines, waving his arms and refusing to move.
Jeff Widener

The tanks tried to go around the man, but he stepped back into their path, climbing atop one briefly. Widener assumed the man would be killed, but the tanks held their fire. Eventually the man was whisked away, but not before Widener immortalized his singular act of resistance. Others also captured the scene, but Widener’s image was transmitted over the AP wire and appeared on front pages all over the world. Decades after Tank Man became a global hero, he remains unidentified. The anonymity makes the photograph all the more universal, a symbol of resistance to unjust regimes everywhere.

Friday, 20 January 2017

The Secret Lovers

The Secret Lovers


Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten sharing a joke.



Nehru and Lord Mountbatten were close friends and everyone knows it but after long time it was revealed that Nehru have secret affair with Lord Mountbatten's wife named Edwina Mountbatten. In this picture we can see that Nehru and Edwina both are sharing a joke with each other while Lord Mountbatten is not interested and looking somewhere else. This photo was taken by  Photographer Henry Cartier who was in India to cover independence of India for Life Magazine that time. And this was the famous picture of that assignment.

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Churchill the Angry Man

Churchill the Angry Man


Winston Churchill in Parliament Building Ottawa, Canada.


This super photo was clicked by the photographer named Yousuf Karsh.  President Winston Churchill was in Ottawa, Canada that time when the photographer took permission from him for a picture. He have cigar in his hand at the moment but photographer wants to remove that. He was angry for that. That is why we can see anger on his face while photo was taken. This is most iconic photo of Winston Churchill.  

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Victory Kiss

Victory Kiss

George Mendonsa kissing the nurse.


This photo have very interesting super story. Sailor, George Mendonsa was watching movie in the theater with his girlfriend. Movie was stopped because the reason was Japan surrendered to Untied States. All of the peoples ran out on road then George Mendonsa saw a nurse standing on the road and he catch her and kissed her with the joy. Someone clicked this photo and it become masterpiece. 

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Left for Death

Left for Death


Left for death 😞

Cruel people are busy all the time, as if to find justification for the cruelty of their dealings. It will be difficult for all of us to stop our tears after reading story behind this picture.
This photo was taken by photographer Kevin Carter in Southern Sudan. As we can see a hungry vulture waiting that when kid will die and he will eat his dead body. Carter won award for this photo but after many peoples criticized him for not helping the girl. After three months of taking this photo Carter committed suicide.


Monday, 16 January 2017

Last Man To Die

*Last man to die*

War photographer Robert Capa took this iconic photo of an American soldier shot and killed by a German sniper in the battle for Leipzig on 18 April 1945. The soldier became known as the ‘last man to die’ in WWII after the image appeared in Life magazine’s Victory issue.

During the World war 2  final days  a platoon of machine gunners entered in a Leipzig building looking for positions to set up covering fire points which would protect foot soldiers of the 2nd U.S. Infantry advancing across the bridge. Two members of the platoon found an open balcony. For a while one soldier fired the gun while the other reload it. Then one soldier went inside and the other manned the smoking gun alone. While absorbed in reloading it, a German sniper’s bullet from the street pierced his forehead. He crumpled to the floor, dead.
Robert  climbed through a balcony window into the flat to photograph the dead man. The photographs show the rapid spread of the soldier’s blood across the floor. Soldier was identified as Raymond J. Bowman, age 21, born in Rochester, New York. The images were published in Life magazine’s Victory edition on 14 May with the caption “The picture of the last man to die”. They would become some of the most memorable images of the Second World War.


Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Declaration of the war

~ Declaration Of War~


After the several days of Pearl Harbor attack on December 11, 1941 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler Declared war on the United States of America. US was formally neutral during World War II.

The decision was made by personally Adolf Hitler as he didn't consult 

about this with any of other companions. Hitler wants to join hands 

with Japan against United States but he failed to do so because of his 

ego. The US was neutral in name only at that point and was going to 

join the war on Britain’s side sooner or later. So Hitler decided that the

 best move would be to declare war on the USA in December 1941 both

 to show solidarity with the Japanese/strengthen the ties of the Axis 

and to hit the US right after their Pacific fleet had been dealt a massive

 (though crucially not a crippling) blow. What Hitler got wrong (which 

was the exact same thing that the Japanese high command got wrong)

 was he completely underestimated the production power of the United

 States as well as the country’s willingness to shift the vast majority of 

that production over to wartime needs. Hitler’s declaration of war came

 as a great relief to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who feared 
the possibility of two parallel disconnected wars (UK and Soviet Union

 versus Germany in Europe, US versus Japan in the Pacific). With Nazi 

Germany’s declaration against the United States in force, American 

assistance for Britain in both theaters of war as a full ally was assured.