Iconic Photographs

A few more from the depths of the internet.



The Hindenburg explodes into flame in New Jersey 1937.



Robert Capa's legendary photograph of a Spanish Militiaman at the moment of his death.



Photograph of an Iraqi torture victim in Abu Ghraib prison.



A warship's ammunition magazine explodes during the attack on Pearl Harbour, 1941.



Meliton Kantaria, a soldier in the Red Army, raises the Soviet flag above The Reichstag in Berlin after Soviet forces had captured the German capital in May 1945.



Muhammad Ali stands over a prostrate Sonny Liston while screaming 'Get up and fight, sucker!!' after supposedly knocking Liston down with nothing more than a glancing blow in their fight on May 25th 1965.



Edmund Hillary stands on the summit of Mount Everest on May 29th, 1953.



American troops take shelter from an explosion on Iwo Jima, 1945.



The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 28th, 1986.

I remember watching the shuttle exploding, it was horrifying to think of those poor people on board.

Just a young lad here and i've never seen some of them but they are horrid, even reading the story about that photographer who took the photo of the vulture and the child, he committed suicide 3 months later - was it anything to do with the photo?
 

BigRed1978 - Cheers for recognizing my fellow Kiwi Sir Edmund Hillary

Hehehehe no worries

Just a young lad here and I've never seen some of them but they are horrid, even reading the story about that photographer who took the photo of the vulture and the child, he committed suicide 3 months later - was it anything to do with the photo?
 

Allegedly so, he came in for fierce criticism for spending 20 minutes setting the picture up instead of helping the child and was a bit consumed by guilt in the months afterwards.

'a bit' ?