These pictures are known by everyone.
Usually, when you look at these pictures, few people think in what circumstances they were made. But behind every photograph is a story. This review presents 5 photographs, reflecting the whole epochs.
1. “Mother immigrant”
In March 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange (Dorothea Lange), being in the camp of labor migrants in Nipomo, California, made the woman, Florence Owens Thompson, who was called “Mother-migrant” (“Migrant Mother”).
As she wrote, the photographer, the woman in the picture was a pea picker and mother of 10 children. They have been living on frozen vegetables and birds that caught her children. She has just sold the tires to support the family. Detached view of the mother and hiding the children have a clear personification of the era of the great depression of the 1930-ies.
2. Che Guevara
Photo of Ernesto Che Guevara has become the most replicated in the world. The portrait was taken by the Cuban Alberto Korda reporter. It was March 5, 1960 at the memorial service. The lunge was enough to make shutter just three clicks. In the shot of other people and Palma. All this the reporter cut off, and any portrait hanged at home, where he spent the next seven years.
In 1967 the Corda visited the Italian publisher, Feltrinelli Giangiacomo, who liked the portrait of the Comandante. Multiple copies of the picture went to Milan, where the publisher put out posters with a picture of Che Guevara. The youth chanted: “Che lives!”, and the spread around the world.
3. Unconditional surrender
This iconic photo was taken by Alfred Eisenstadt in times Square on August 14, 1945, when President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that the war with Japan. People poured into the streets of the city, and sailor Glenn Mcduffie on the joys of kissing all, gets him women. It was then that the photographer captured the nurse in the arms of a sailor. The got the name “Unconditional surrender”.
4. “The message of albert Einstein to humanity”
The albert Einstein with his tongue hanging out was taken March 14, 1951 by Arthur Sass (Arthur Sasse) on the day of the celebration of the 72nd anniversary of the scientist. The photographer asked Einstein to smile, to which he stuck out his tongue. Negative was printed 9 photos. One scientist gave the journalist Howard Smith signature on the reverse side: “This gesture You like, because it is aimed at all of humanity. A civilian can afford to do what diplomat would dare. Your loyal and grateful listener, A. Einstein.”
The with these words in 2002 was sold at auction in new Hampshire for almost $ 75 000. Photo also called “Message from albert Einstein to humanity”.
5. “The Afghan Mona Lisa
This Afghan girl became world-famous after her photo was published in 1985 on the cover of National Geographic magazine. Journalist Steve McCurry (Steve McCurry) I saw this 12-year-old girl in a refugee camp in Pakistan during the Afghan war. Piercing gaze of a girl touched him to the core, and the picture gave the name “Afghan Mona Lisa”.
After 17 years, Steve McCurry found the girl and established her identity. The face of Sharbat Gula changed the time and burden problems, but the sight remained the same piercing.
