Photographs that have moved you in some way (Part 2)

Previous thread:

Katrina:

Abu Ghraib

Buffet dinner...

The demolished Roxy Theater in New York (R106 from the first thread) is now a TGIFridays. That's progress for you.

I like to listen to Nick Digilio from WGN radio in Chicago. He's in his mid fifties. He has often talked about going to old historic theaters / movie palaces in Chicago as a young adult. Many of them were in rough shape, crumbling, dirty, rat infested, etc. They would survive by showing grindhouse movies. Some of them have survived to this day and undergone massive renovations. Too bad New York's Roxy Theater wasn't lucky enough to have the same fate.

Helmut Newton - Le Smoking, 1975

Christ's Running Fence. In 1976, the large-scale artwork "Running Fence" was installed over 24.5 miles of Sonoma and Marin farmland and into the Pacific Ocean.

Ackk! It's CHRISTO's Running Fence. Christ had nothing to do with it.

Photograph of Keith Haring

Girl with a Leica by Alexander Rodchenko, 1934

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Norman Parkinson

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One of those three bitches on the left in R13 is going off that building in 3, 2, 1...

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Haha. The model on the right does have a sly look on her face, R15.

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Sailors

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Modern art at its finest. The way the photographer captures the often overlooked dignity and understated elegance of a finger fuck is nearly orgasmic.

Boys on the beach

Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp, photo by Hugo Van Lawick, 1965

Primatologist Jane Goodall meets baby chimp, Flint, in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Game Reserve.

Jane, Jane, Jane. You're doing it all wrong. A proper scientist doesn't interact with the subject of her study. She observes from afar.

I posted this once before: a spotted zebra.

"Castle" Iceberg by Sebastião Salgado

Three Queens in Mourning.

Duchess of Windsor at the Duke's funeral.

I'll see R26's 3 Queens and raise him 9 Kings. Taken at the funeral of King Edward VII.

From the previous thread:

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

You should read the short story "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov. There are copies online.

Back to the pictures...

A "Struggle Session" during the Cultural Revolution in China. This was a shaming process in which any Chinese person who deviated from Maoism was publicly shamed, mocked and abused by thousands, before either being murdered by the crowd, or being hauled off to the gulags - WITH their entire family.

Loving these threads.

Flowers are Butterflies by Papo Colo

President Obama after Sandyhook:

R22 That's a bigass dick

Don't you miss this?

Civil War memorial and veteran’s graves, Lynn, MA.

Man visits his family's gravestones:

Surfer does a flip on wave:

Sailing boats in Rio

Volcanic eruption in Iceland

This is what happens if you throw hot tea into the air in Arctic.

Canola flowers in Luoping, China.

Rango plays guitar - Aditya Permana

Birdy Hurricane

Powerful photo, R33.

R31, It's amazing how similar their uniforms, hairstyles, moustaches, etc look.

R31's photo.

Standing, from left to right: Haakon VII of Norway, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Manuel II of Portugal, Wilhelm II of Germany, George I of Greece and Albert I of Belgium.

Seated, from left to right: Alfonso XIII of Spain, George V of the United Kingdom and Frederick VIII of Denmark.

R43 Why is there a lightning coming out of the eruption?

R3

Jesus. What the fuck is that?

R51, wikipedia has an article about "Volcanic Lightning". For some reason, wikipedia links never work for me on DataLounge. I copied part of it:

"Volcanic lightning arises from colliding, fragmenting particles of volcanic ash (and sometimes ice), which generate static electricity within the volcanic plume, leading to the name dirty thunderstorm. Moist convection and ice formation also drive the eruption plume dynamics and can trigger volcanic lightning. But unlike ordinary thunderstorms, volcanic lightning can also occur before any ice crystals have formed in the ash cloud."

R52, one article from wired.com mentions guards at Abu Ghraib posing with decaying corpses. I assume that's what R3 is. Pretty grim.

This:

Eldergays' grandparents as kids.

Interracial British couple celebrating 70 years of marriage.

Again, more inspiring than moving.

Evening ensemble - Yves Saint Laurent, fall / winter 1983-84 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Emilio Schuberth, fall / winter 1952-53 at The Met

The Bar Suit, Christian Dior, spring / summer 1947

Arbeitslos by August Sander, 1928

This photograph of an unemployed man was used in the book "Antlitz der Zeit" ("Face of the Time"), Sander's typological study of German citizens. A poignant image of disempowerment, the picture reveals Sander's prescient understanding of the social and economic forces at work in the Weimar Republic. Taking Sander's sympathetic portrayal of Germans of all occupations and ethnicities as a serious threat, the Fascists destroyed the printing blocks and most copies of this book in 1934. This print of the whole negative, showing both the "last" man and his desolate corner, is the only one known to survive.

Hong Kong protests

A protester clenches his fist as hundreds of thousands of people march on the streets to protest against the unpopular extradition bill on June 16, 2019.

Syrian civilians fleeing as government forces attack rebels.

A child sleeps in a bag in the Syrian village of Beit Sawa in March 2018; photo by Omar Sanadiki

Pajama Kid

The story is that his mom mixed up school picture day with pajama day and this is the result

A+

From a current thread on Yoko Ono. When i was a kid there was a indie record store in my area and the album that featured this photo hung on the wall behind the cash register, seeing a naked guy out the open always gave my teen self a boner.

Damn, R65, Ono has some of the ugliest tits I've ever seen. Warn a person next time!

It's too bad that Ono is not in good health at age 87. She needs round-the-clock care and rarely leaves her apartment in The Dakota. When she does go out, she is often in a wheelchair, or walks with great difficulty using a cane, often leaning on a caregiver for support.

Sister wives showing off their fashion chops.

^ Moved me to barf.

R68 Those are the same blues worn by the Commanders Wives in Handmaid’s Tale.

Victorian era child chimney sweep.

The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville - Robert Doisneau

Staged! Doisneau's daughter said the couple kissing are actor friends of the photographer and the whole thing was staged.

Gorgeous and haunting

The endangered green peacock in Bandung, Indonesia.

Octoyura Bamahry/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.

A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after five years of Taliban rule in November 2001.

1950s locker room buddies.

R73 like most of us, she didn't age well.

R77 She still has striking features.

The guy on the far left is so damn hot, and the guy standing in the middle resembles Tom Cruise.

Christmas shopping in 1956.

R79 Yes, the guy on the left is beautiful. And he's workin' that pose!

Homeless man with his best friend:

Child of poverty looking into bakery window, London 1935:

Nigerian dancing children:

R64 Looks like a grown-up's face on a child's body

This one brings me joy:

Jewish children in Holland wearing the yellow star during WW II. Only the girl in the white dress survived the Holocaust

R54, [R52], This was a famous photo because it, and one other shown here, and other photos, showed American soldiers disrespecting the dead in the Iraq war, and committing a series of human rights violation against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder.

The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by CBS News in April 2004. The incidents received widespread condemnation both within the United States and abroad, although the torturers received support from some conservative media in the United States.

It was a huge propaganda coup by the enemies of the United States, and we like to think that we are better than this. I’m adding this explanation because America has a long history that we can be proud of, but that means, I believe, that we must always recognize and remember when we fall short, as in this case.

R65 reminded me of this photo.

1917, a little boy in a sailor outfit stares at the candy in the window of small store. The store displays patriotic support for war. The newspaper headlines report the news from the Great War. The little boy grew up to wear a real sailor uniform in the next war in Europe. That little boy was my father, but I’m still moved by this.

R27 always found them to be a wildly attractive couple.

Jose Wesley, a baby born with microcephaly caused by the Zika virus, cries in Bonito, Brazil, in January 2016. Felipe Dana/AP

Italian mom with her kids.

Tianzi Mountain (China) — inspiration for the landscapes of Pandora in Avatar. Photographed by Richard Janecki

Orphaned elephants raised from infancy and their hero, the late Dame Daphne Sheldrick

In R87's photo, the kid on the bottom left looks exactly like the kid in an earlier photo where a boy's mom accidentally dressed him in his pajamas for school picture day. Weird.

The Golden Gate Bridge under construction.

Reposting this from the previous thread to comment. The Frenchman was crying because the once mighty French Army was retreating out of Metropolitan France (through Marseille) and sailing for safety in Algeria. The French were being left to the Germans, so imagine the national humiliation and sense of the unknown.

Yosemite fire falls. Saw it when I was a child.

Photo by Irving Penn

Photo by Diane Arbus

Another by the fabulous Diane Arbus

One more

Miss Ross

Richard Avedon

Maplethorpe

The way they were. Diane Arbus and her husband Alan Arbus (Sidney, the psychiatrist from M.A.S.H.)

Self-portrait, Robert Maplethorpe

Arbus is terribly overrated.

In your opinion, R111. Others do not agree.

The Tetons and the Snake River - Ansel Adams

Sons of Cush - Deana Lawson

Intriguing photo even though her images are highly staged. To each shoot, she brings bags of props (she has described the thrift store as part of her process), things heavy with associations, to compose arrangements in which each object has a significance akin to a still life painting. Her work is concerned with the black experience across the diaspora. One of Lawson’s hallmarks is the directness of her subject’s gaze.

R106

That's amazing! Love dog's unimpressed side-eye.

Sunset, Madeira Beach, Florida.

Genoa

An Italian Beach by Bernhard Lang

r117 la spiaggia gialla ed arancia ^

Tulip farm

Frosted Trees by Jan Bainar

Jeep Ghost from Twitter

This photo was supposedly made without photoshopping. I guess ice formed on the front of the vehicle and it broke away as the driver backed out and didn't fall apart.

Couple escapes burning home during Ukranian conflict.

Tianjin Binhai Library

Bodies found after liberation of Dachau concentration camp:

[quote]R117 la spiaggia gialla ed arancia ^

I don't speak Italian but I guessed "orange and yellow beach" :)

Let's give this one more shot. Tianjin Binhai Library

My neighbor Totoro - Tanja Brandt

Elephants are amazingly intelligent.

Crazy couple makes out on the street during the Vancouver riots in June 2011. Hockey fans were angry when their team lost in the Stanley Cup final and wreaked havoc across downtown sections of Vancouver. Photograph by Rich Lam.

G7 summit in Germany, June 2015

Boehner tempting Obama with a Camel

Is that elephant/lion pic at R129 real? Because if it is, damn!

Nah, it’s a fake. Would be awesome if it was real.

Photoshopped

Some of these photos are amusing, but "moved" by them?

Donnie and Liberace? That's awesome. I hope that one isn't photoshopped. Imagine Liberace's impure thoughts when he would see young, cute Donnie.

What can I say, R138? I find this advertisement moving. You can only look at so many photos of human misery before you start to get really depressed.

Just an FYI - Elephants will not tolerate lions be they cubs or adults. True to life, and that elephant would have gladly stepped on that lion cub in revenge and proactively. Here's an interesting, though short clip - note the absolute RAGE on display by the herd:

R141: I lol’d at your use of the adjective ‘rage”. Maybe he was just meth’d up?

Thanks to r135 for the truth about the elephant picture I posted. Here's one that I'm sure I first saw on DL a while back.

r141 did not use "rage" as an adjective, r142. It's a noun.

Coffin Ban by Tami Silicio, 2004

By April 2004, some 700 U.S. troops had been killed on the battlefield in Iraq, but images of the dead returning home in coffins were never seen. The U.S. government had banned news organizations from photographing such scenes in 1991, arguing that they violated families’ privacy and the dignity of the dead. To critics, the policy was simply a way of sanitizing an increasingly bloody conflict. As a government contractor working for a cargo company in Kuwait, Tami Silicio was moved by the increasingly human freight she was loading and felt compelled to share what she was seeing. On April 7, Silicio used her Nikon Coolpix to photograph more than 20 flag-draped coffins as they passed through Kuwait on their way to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. She emailed the picture to a friend in the U.S., who forwarded it to a photo editor at the Seattle Times. With Silicio’s permission, the Times put the photo on its front page on April 18—and immediately set off a firestorm. Within days, Silicio was fired from her job and a debate raged over the ethics of publishing the images. While the government claimed that families of troops killed in action agreed with its policy, many felt that the pictures should not be censored. In late 2009, during President Barack Obama’s first year in office, the Pentagon lifted the ban.

Leap into Freedom by Peter Leibing, 1961

Nineteen year old East German border guard Hans Conrad Schumann suddenly ran for the barricade that separated East and West Berlin, and jumped over the barbed wire. He later said he did not want to “live enclosed". He dropped his rifle and was whisked away. He was reportedly the first known East German soldier to flee. The photo became famous , symbolizing those yearning to be free. East German officials pushed for a more intimidating, permanent barrier. Schumann lived quietly in the West but committed suicide in 1998.

Barack Obama presidential campaign

Obama campaigns during a rainstorm in Chester, PA on October 28, 2008. Photo by Damon Winter.

Rudi Gerneich topless bathing suit 1964

Jean Shrimpton during the Swinging London days. I wanted to go London and swing, too.

Twiggy by David Newell-Smith

Jean Shrimpton by Richard Avedon. I was an art student at the time studying fashion design and illustration. The images of fashion in that area really moved me.

Cyclists in face masks take photos of couple walking along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, wearing home made protective suits. Photo by Carlos de Souza.

I noticed that square hairstyle in some fashion shows about ten years ago. I thought it was a new idea but it looks like it was around in the 60s.

Homeless man in Philadelphia,1985 - photo by Tom Gralish

Ten-year-old Erica Miranda shows her scars after being shot three times in the back, knee and hip March 2, 2010, while playing basketball outside her home in Compton, Calif. A young man had walked up to the crowded street corner and started firing a handgun in what police believe was a gang assault.

Photo by Barbara Davidson of the L.A. Times

The brother clearly is still quite vulnerable himself but still tried to protect his sister. This paradox of strength in vulnerability just ticks your heart. Plus they look so darn cute.

The brother clearly is still quite vulnerable himself but still tried to protect his sister. This paradox of strength in vulnerability just ticks your heart. Plus they look so darn cute.

Destruction after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Houses on Howard Street near 17th Avenue

Oh dear. This thread is running out of steam. Oh well.

Portions of this video move me. The scenes of the Great Depression, and the children in rags getting their daily slop to eat, in particular.

Also that gorgeous blonde on the shoulders of his friend in the past Wembley Stadium audience is hot as hell.

Also the aggressive seduction scene the 3:07 mark with John Barrymore (identified for me by DataLounge a while ago). Very hot.

R159, my grandfather lived through that earthquake and helped fight the fires after. That photo could also be from the Loma Prieta earthquake in SF, too (photo below).

I was at home in SF when Loma Prieta hit. Damn longest, strongest earthquake I ever shook through. I had a transistor radio (no electricity) and the initial reports were out of control. No one knew yet the death rates or depth of destruction and rumors were wild. They reported the Bay Bridge completely collapsed (only a section of the upper level did) and that deaths numbered far hundred than they actually were. So many people were either at Candlestick for the World Series or watching at home. Deaths on the collapsed freeways in the east bay would have been much higher except for that.

^ Loma Prieta happened in 1999.

It was 1989.

Right, 1989. Duh. Thanks.

I was driving home from work when the Loma Prieta quake struck. I still remember what was playing on the radio when it struck - "Miss You Much." Then the radio went dead and Ms. Jackson was no more.

r166 THAT’S THE END?!?

R167 NO!

Thanks for the interesting info, R162.

When they talk about the 1906 earthquake in the media, they usually mention the destructive fires caused by ruptured gas mains. It must have been an incredibly trying time for your grandfather and his family. The photographs are really sobering.

Clarence Williams (LA Times) disturbing photographs of the lives of young children with addicted parents.

Theodora Triggs, 34, cradles daughter Tamika, 3, after shooting heroin.

With her back to her daughter, Theodora Triggs shoots heroin. She insists that she loves Tamika and says she knows other children of addicts who are worse off, but admits, "When I'm using, I'm chasing my drug. I'm not paying attention to her."

Tamika Triggs, 3, dozes on a filthy mattress in a shed in Long Beach while her mother, Theodora, right, and a friend, Dorene McDonald, get high on crack cocaine and heroin.

Kevin Bryan, whose dad is addicted to speed and alcohol, settles down for the night on the sofa in his living room, looking into the kitchen where his father's addict friends sleep on the floor; the refrigerator and stove have been sold for drug money. At 8, Kevin, whose mother abandoned the family years ago, is angry and violent.

I wonder why the grandparents don't step in.

I hope these kids will be able to break the cycle and make a better life for themselves, but with such a horrible upbringing, I wouldn't be surprised if they also become addicted to drugs and alcohol in their teens.

Thanks, R169. My grandfather was in the military and stationed in SF at the time and the unit was directed to fight the fires. He was originally from the Midwest but moved to SF after WWI. My step-grandfather was about 13 and slept through the earthquake (hard to believe but true). He stepped out the front door to see some of his neighborhood collapsed (Polk St, near Nob Hill). Three days later their house burned down. They were able to load up a cart and escape with some belongings.

One of my favorite stories from my childhood is my grandfather (real, not step) telling of watching the city burn.

[quote] I wonder why the grandparents don't step in.

The grandparents raised these drug-addicted people who procreated. IME, the grandparents are probably fucked-up, too.

Uh, R176, don't know what rarefied world of perfect children you grew up in but that's not how addiction works. Plenty of grandparents raising the kids of their addict children and doing just fine. Some children just grow up to be fucked up adults all on their own.

I'm sure there are plenty of abusive foster parents but there must be enough good ones who could give these kids a better life. I didn't post the photo of Tamika having to share a toothbrush with her HIV+ mother. That's how hard up they are.

Tamika would have been better off left on the side of the road somewhere. At least that way, maybe one of the rescue dog crazies would pick her up and take her home.

r179, elephants have been known to rescue abandoned children.

Clarence Williams made those photographs in 1997 or 1998 and they were published in the LA Times. Maybe some of those kids were taken away from their parents.

[quote]R179, elephants have been known to rescue abandoned children.

You mean like the photoshopped pic of the elephant carrying the lion cub on its trunk?

Civil rights activist James Meredith shot on June 6, 1966 on the second day of his march.

James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, is shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South. Known as the “March Against Fear,” Meredith had been walking from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, in an attempt to encourage voter registration by African Americans in the South.

A former serviceman in the U.S. Air Force, Meredith applied and was accepted to the University of Mississippi in 1962, but his admission was revoked when the registrar learned of his race. A federal court ordered “Ole Miss” to admit him, but when he tried to register on September 20, 1962, he found the entrance to the office blocked by Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett. On September 28, the governor was found guilty of civil contempt and was ordered to cease his interference with desegregation at the university or face arrest and a fine of $10,000 a day. Two days later, Meredith was escorted onto the Ole Miss campus by U.S. Marshals, setting off riots that resulted in the deaths of two students. He returned the next day and began classes. In 1963, Meredith, who was a transfer student from all-black Jackson State College, graduated with a degree in political science.

Three years later, Meredith returned to the public eye when he began his March Against Fear. On June 6, just one day into the march, he was sent to a hospital by a sniper’s bullet. Other civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., and Stokely Carmichael, arrived to continue the march on his behalf. It was during the March Against Fear that Carmichael, who was leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, first spoke publicly of “Black Power”—his concept of militant African American nationalism. James Meredith later recovered and rejoined the march he had originated, and on June 26 the marchers successfully reached Jackson, Mississippi.

Chicago Cubs win the World Series in November 2016. The last previous win was 1908.

An already gravely ill and frail Freddie Mercury on his way to the Brit Awards 1990, a year before his death.

Almost Rembrandt-like.. the setting, the light, Merkel‘s powder blue outfit.. the petulant Donnie.

And for a bit of national pride.. :-)

R187's photograph should be titled "If you don't play the game my way, I'm taking the ball and going home."

Londoners, during the Blitz, sleeping in the subway for protection.

Irving Penn photo for Vogue UK, 1957

R90 Don’t sleep in the subway darling, don’t stand in the pouring rain.

A small pale blue point of light, the Earth, is barely visible. Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the brown band on the right. You may need to enlarge the photo to see.

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.

Due to the vastness of space, most people missed the message to say “cheese” at the appropriate time, and the French said “fromage” anyway, ruining the photograph for everyone,

Caracas (specifically Petare) in Venezuela.

Not so much 'moving' except it scares the shit out of me with those structures dangling precariously over the edge like that.

And to think natives just go about their day not even giving it a second thought.

Crap, sorry, this should work:

That’s horrible!

😳😱

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen. All you need are torrential rains and mudslides.

R95, I visited Venezuela years ago as a side trip on a Caribbean cruise. We were on an excursion bus and drove by a large slum city like that on our way to Caracas. It was shocking to see. We were close enough to see single light bulbs on cords dangling from the make shift ceilings and people moving about, an image you don't soon forget. Caracas was very interesting in other ways as well, I love the old Spanish Colonial architecture.

R198, likewise, I drove through a slum, in my Dad’s Lincoln Continental, in Savanah late one night. The shacks were made from recovered-recycled lumber. The window openings had no window frames nor windows. They were open to the elements. The foundations were a few cinderblocks. Aluminum sheets for roofs. The road was not paved. And they clearly wanted to know what we were doing there, but caused us no trouble.

R199, Pierre, we now have many homeless people in my area (Northern CA). The conditions are bad. Not as densely packed as Venezuela, but something we didn't see when I was growing up. There used to be cheap hotels called "flop-houses" where the down and out lived. Now they're in homeless encampments that keep getting raided as they're moved from place to place. So awful that so many people around the world live in such terrible conditions. The flop houses were bad enough but to sleep on the street is horrifying.

The photo is of one local encampment along a public walking path that has since been cleared. They've made a "village" on other public property. Some of the others around the Bay Area, clustered under freeway ramps and in other derelict spaces, are much worse.

Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James embracing Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. who lost a hand, leg, and an eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq, 2005

I would look lovely in this Dior dress.

I wonder how the young, injured soldier felt when the veteran at R201 embraced him? Was he moved or just embarrassed?

I just found a letter from my Dad dated 1945, Pearl Harbor. I think he was on his way home from Japan. I haven’t read it yet.

I made a lot of donations to Goodwill this year, and I realized it has been years since I walked through the store, so I thought I ought to see the kind of goods they sell, to make sure my donations were appropriate. I wondered if I might even find something that I earlier donated, though I did not. They had some reasonably nice things, Most of the clothes were faded and when walking through the store, I had this immense feeling of sadness.

R201, he doesn't look embarrassed to me. He looks touched.

This moved me recently. Navy vet being beaten by Trump's Federal goons in Portland.

An Egyptian woman kisses a policeman, who had refused to fire on protestors, during the revolution against the Mubarak Government in 2011.

[quote]R201, he doesn't look embarrassed to me. He looks touched.

He's just acting because he knows the camera is on him.

Just kidding!

People play golf on Hawaii's Big Island as an ash plume from the Kilauea volcano rises in the distance. The volcano erupted in May 2018, sending a smoldering flow of lava into residential areas. Photo by Mario Tama.

Gay photographer, George Platt Lynes

Read more on him... Or just google his name and click on images, photos are from the 30’s and upward but look very modern

2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean hits shore