Thought-provoking pictures

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[Proto]

 

[srw]

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This is one of the few photos on the thread that stands alone and provides its own context. Its restraint makes it more effective.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

For example...?

There may be one or two, but I think the vast majority of the images on this thread deliver on the subject line - thought provoking and anything but gratuitous.

I think it's worth remembering, too, that in an age before the internet - which is to say instant unmediated access to pretty much anything that's going on in the world - photojournalism was one of the few ways that important issues reached the public consciousness - and conscience. For just one example

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is widely credited with having played a major role in ending the Vietnam War. Of course we don't need images to tell us that 'war is bad' - we knew that all along. But that 'knowledge' didn't impede the American assault on a peasant nation; a single image that made it a visceral reality to millions - many of whom don't read contexts, or anything much else - did.

Flailing accusations of 'tragedy-porn', IMHO, also display a rather shabby dismissal of the work of a body of men - and some women - who overwhelmingly did an important job for all the right reasons, 135 of whom lost their lives in Indochina doing it.

The interesting thing about that photo is what was left unsaid - the Americans didn't do it. https://allthatsinteresting.com/napalm-girl

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

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A couple of weeks ago I was at a Falkirk game where we were hammered in our third defeat in three games. Before half time an old guy got up and walked out in disgust, throwing his scarf onto the pitch as he walked behind the goals. I took a pic without noticing what was on the advertising hoardings. Seems apt -

 

[ozboz]

[QUOTE 5386916, member: 9609"]can we not just accept that some images may be more thought provoking to some than to others - we really don't need to know if you feel that your thoughts are in some way more superior to another posters thoughts.

its a really interesting thread, lets not spoil it with delusions of superiority.[/QUOTE]


Totally agree , my contribution was of the Poppies at The Tower of London, poignent to me a an ex Soldier, maybe not so for many others,

 

[captain nemo1701]

Everyone who has ever lived and all those living, did and do so on this small blue dot.
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Check out the Youtube video 'The Universe is way bigger than you think' includes a bit about the pale blue dot.

 

[Proto]

This is one of the few photos on the thread that stands alone and provides its own context. Its restraint makes it more effective.

I took that photo one Sunday when visiting my daughters who live in Clifton. A lovely morning, mild and sunny, I decided to walk with my dog across the green to the observatory and then over the bridge. Such a beautiful place, civilised and well cared for, the bridge itself magnificent, a testament to man’s enterprise and ingenuity. A true ‘feel good’ place.

And then I saw the sign. It really stopped me in my tracks. Such a wonderful place and yet a place where some are so desperate, their lives so sh*t, that they chose to end their lives there. The setting to them means nothing, just a good place to end it all. Heartbreaking. I walked on thinking of my blessed life, my family, how I have it all and others have nothing to live for.

 

[Smokin Joe]

The end of the sixties "Peace and Love" dream. eighteen year old Meridith Hunter is stabbed to death by a Hells Angel at a Rolling Stones concert in 1969.

 

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The end of the sixties "Peace and Love" dream. eighteen year old Meridith Hunter is stabbed to death by a Hells Angel at a Rolling Stones concert in 1969.

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I remember that, the hell's angels were providing the security for the gig.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Pictures like these remind me of the responsibility we have towards animals because they're not so different from us.

 

[ozboz]

 

[swee'pea99]

...and by contrast:

 

[Dirk]

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[Joey Shabadoo]

Sold as calamari in disreputable restaurants apparently.