# Think of a famous Photo. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050 "2008-04-12T16:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/81 "2008-04-13T06:46:04Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I honestly don’t know why, but [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg) was the first photo I thought of when I read the thread title. [/QUOTE] I think that was the first visual representation of “Epic fail.” ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/82 "2008-04-13T06:55:04Z")
[QUOTE=Alive At Both Ends] [This](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Reichstag_flag.jpg) is what came to mind immediately. [/QUOTE] Now did you specifically mean to select this version _with_ the wristwatch? Another version was edited to not show the watch as it suggested looting, being worn on the right hand. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/83 "2008-04-13T07:52:51Z")
My almost immediate choice was [Earth Rise](http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/ap020127.html). ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/84 "2008-04-13T07:59:42Z")
[QUOTE=Mach Tuck] I’m surprised [this one](http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/GPN-2001-000009.jpg) hasn’t come up yet. Definitely first for me. [/QUOTE] Like many others, the Vietcong execution photo was the first to pop into my head, but when I saw this one I immediately thought of [Reflections on a Mote of Dust](http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html). It’s only one grainy low-resolution photo, but I’ve always found it incredibly moving; it chokes me up just about every time I read Sagan’s accompanying words. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/85 "2008-04-13T08:18:52Z")
I thought of [this one](http://www.foldedspace.org/images/kokoallball.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/86 "2008-04-13T12:18:11Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] Now did you specifically mean to select this version _with_ the wristwatch? Another version was edited to not show the watch as it suggested looting, being worn on the right hand. [/QUOTE] No. I didn’t realise there was a “no watch” version, to be honest with you. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/87 "2008-04-13T12:54:01Z")
Oh c’mon people, we’re all being way too nostalgic and polite even though we’re in the age of the internet. You want a well known (famous) photos? I give you not [one](http://slackdaddy.org/system/files/images/stereogram-goatse_0.jpg) , but [two](http://www.themuffin.net/magiceye.jpg) SFW versions of Goatse! Please don’t leave it on your monitor for anyone else to try and figure out these Magic Eye pictures are depicting though. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/88 "2008-04-13T13:00:43Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] That’s the only one I don’t recognize. What’s the context? [This](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/08/06/nyregion/06kiss1.span.jpg) was my default screen for about a year. [/QUOTE] It’s by Robert Capa, who is better known for photographing the D-Day landings. This photo was taken during the Spanish Civil war, and shows a loyalist soldier at point of death (although, I was surprised to learn, it is occasionally alledged that the photograph was staged.) I don’t know why it was the first photo I though of. I’ve been reading a few biographies of Capa and other Magnum photographers, which is probably why, but I’ve been fascinated by the photo for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/89 "2008-04-13T13:08:58Z")
And, after the edit expires,. I see that other people have already answered the question. This is a great idea for a thread - really fascinating responses. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/90 "2008-04-13T13:59:49Z")
My first, “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” has been posted, as has my second, Korda’s shot of Che Guevara, which I’ve never thought looked much like Guevara normally did. Most shots of Guevara show him with a thicker beard and much curlier hair, but maybe that’s just me. Any, slight hijack. I was aware that the shot of the buildings in France was the oldest known photo (is that thing in the center that looks like an angled slab a roof or just a bad blurring of the grounds in the distance?), but I’m curious, what’s the oldest known photograph of an actual (recognizable as such, I suppose) person? What’s the oldest known photograph of a location that is still recognizable? Thanks, Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/91 "2008-04-13T15:17:22Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] I honestly don’t know why, but [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg) was the first photo I thought of when I read the thread title. [/QUOTE] Holy crap! How did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/92 "2008-04-13T15:39:07Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Oh c’mon people, we’re all being way too nostalgic and polite even though we’re in the age of the internet. You want a well known (famous) photos? I give you not [one](http://slackdaddy.org/system/files/images/stereogram-goatse_0.jpg) , but [two](http://www.themuffin.net/magiceye.jpg) SFW versions of Goatse! Please don’t leave it on your monitor for anyone else to try and figure out these Magic Eye pictures are depicting though. [/QUOTE] Is that really Goatse? I can do those things on paper pretty much instantly and at will, but I’ve never been able to get one to work on a computer monitor. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/93 "2008-04-13T16:47:35Z")
That ‘Earth rise’ picture is something of an illusion too, well from the perspective of the person who took it. > **[The Earthrise Photograph](https://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm)** > > Footprints on the Moon - 30th Anniversary of the Moon Landing I belive this can be confirmed by looking at the land masses, then you can see that the picture of the earth is wrongly oriented in the ‘earth on top’ image. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/94 "2008-04-13T17:14:52Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Holy crap! How did that happen? [/QUOTE] From Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > The Gare Montparnasse became famous for a derailment on 22 October 1895 of the Granville-Paris Express that overran the buffer stop. The engine careened across almost 30 metres (98 ft) of the station concourse, crashed through a 60 centimetres (24 in) thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 10 metres (33 ft) below, where it stood on its nose. All of the passengers on board the train survived, five sustaining injuries: two passengers, a fireman and two crewmembers; however, one woman on the street below was killed by falling masonry. The accident was caused by a faulty Westinghouse brake and the engine drivers who were trying to make up for lost time.[2] The train chief incurred a 25 franc penalty and the engine driver a 50 franc penalty; he was also sent to prison for two months. The page on the [Paris Montparnasse train station.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_Montparnasse) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/95 "2008-04-13T17:26:46Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Is that really Goatse? I can do those things on paper pretty much instantly and at will, but I’ve never been able to get one to work on a computer monitor. [/QUOTE] The first one is. I’m not going to bother doing the second one, because wow, Goatse is pretty much just as gross even when rendered in stylized 3-D format. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/96 "2008-04-13T17:41:52Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] Any, slight hijack. I was aware that the shot of the buildings in France was the oldest known photo, but I’m curious, what’s the oldest known photograph of an actual (recognizable as such, I suppose) person? Thanks, Sir Rhosis [/QUOTE] I don’t know if this is the oldest photo of a recognizable person, but it’s gotta be up there. Taken by Matthew Brady in 1845, it depicts former President Andrew Jackson, and was taken shortly before his death. > **[Redirect Notice](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:%2F%2Fgregorear.com%2Fimages%2Fjackson.jpg&imgrefurl=http:%2F%2Fgregorear.blogspot.com%2F2004%2F12%2Fearly-photography.html&h=384&w=352&sz=34&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=ytIpVZCaZmgUdM:&tbnh=123&tbnw=113&prev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3DAndrew%2BJackson%2Bphoto%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den)** ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/97 "2008-04-13T17:46:08Z")
The Hubble Deep Field [http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1997/images/hubbledeep.jpg](http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1997/images/hubbledeep.jpg) A composite image of a small section of our night sky: representing the most distant any eye has seen into our universe, and thus, the farthest back in time. According to Youtube :rolleyes: it is the most important image ever taken [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mcBV-cXVWFw/hqdefault.jpg "The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/98 "2008-04-13T17:56:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Is that really Goatse? I can do those things on paper pretty much instantly and at will, but I’ve never been able to get one to work on a computer monitor. [/QUOTE] Yep, I can confirm they both work. I guess I’ve never seen goatse before (I had it confused with tubgirl) and was staring at the first picture for about a minute before I could figure out what the 3D figure was supposed to be representing. ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/99 "2008-04-13T19:48:03Z")
I thought of the Apollo 17 “[Blue Marble](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble)” photo, and I’m surprised to see, among all the other moon-mission pics, that it hasn’t been mentioned yet (that I noticed). ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/100 "2008-04-13T23:04:54Z")
For some reason I always think of [this one](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hindenburg_burning.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050.md?page=6)