Top 25 historical photos

[Bruce Wayne]

http://www.smashinglists.com/top-25-most-ancient-historical-photographs/

 

[LizzieMaine]

How'd they miss out on

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[Bruce Wayne]

I am fairly certain that the list is more geared towards historic advances in photography itself.

 

[laotou]

They're wrong about Muybridge. He tried to take sequential photos with trip wires, but got no decent results from it until he hired a man named Isaacs who came up with a clockwork mechanism that solved all the problems. Muybridge claimed the process as his own and spent the rest of his life living off of it. The photos shown are using Isaacs's process, not the trip wire dead end.

 

[Chas]

I respectfully submit....

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

I respectfully submit....

Could you please tell me the history behind this pictures? I don't know them. If they have an equal iconic status like the hindenburg or kapa's falling soldier I really have to know.

 

[WH1]

I believe the bottom photo was taken immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, they are pointing to the orgination of the shots which killed him.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The photo of the brawling men is of "The Battle of Willow Run," one of the most notorious incidents in the battle between the United Auto Workers union and the Ford Motor Company -- and the specific photograph that inspired the creation of the Pulitzer Prize for news photography.

On May 26, 1937, UAW organizers entered the grounds of the Ford Willow Run factory and attempted to distribute union leaflets to workers. They were set upon by hired goons -- members of Ford's "Service Department" who served as the company's private army -- and nearly beaten to death. The man being attacked, seen here with his suit coat pulled up over his head, is UAW organizer Richard Frankensteen, who along with UAW president Walter Reuther, took the brunt of the assaults -- he was thrown to the ground, pinned down, and kicked repeatedly in the face, chest, and groin until he lost consciousness. Another man, UAW organizer Robert Kanter, was thrown off a concrete overpass and fell 30 feet to the pavement below. Several women who were handing out union leaflets were also beaten by the thugs.

The photo was taken by Scotty Kirkpatrick of the Detroit News, and appeared on the front page of virtually every newspaper in the United States the following day. The public outcry over the brutality of the beatings was the turning point in the drive to organize the auto industry in the US -- people began to boycott Ford cars -- and finally, in 1940, Ford signed a union contract.

 

[Silver Dollar]

I am fairly certain that the list is more geared towards historic advances in photography itself.

I'm thinking the same thing. There are too many pictures that were added that are way more historically significant than the "top" 25. The other photo that Chas posted where the subjects are all wet shows how they cleared the streets during civil rights protests in the South. They took fire hoses and blasted the people. If you ever had that done to you, you know it's not a spring day at the beach.