# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/121 "2008-04-14T17:09:58Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] What happened to the child? I’m assuming after the photographer snapped the picture, he chased away the vulture and snatched up the child and took him to safety? [/QUOTE] Sadly, no. The photographer took the picture and left. He committed suicide months later due to depression. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/122 "2008-04-14T17:12:06Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] There actually is a film of that execution, as well, although it was the Eddie Adams photo that lingered in the public consciousness. [Interview (complete with video of execution) with Eddie here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdIvPzCvwBU) [/QUOTE] Ah, thanks. I _knew_ I’d seen a film of it and didn’t realize it was also a still photo taken by a separate person. Also, I could tell that the pistol had been fired, but didn’t realize you can actually see the bullet in the VC’s head in that photo. Speaking of, [this photo](http://www.athousandandone.com/18/) appeared in the late lamented _Omni_ magazine (I don’t know that it was original to that publication) to illustrate a new breakthrough in photography (a camera quicker than a bullet) and I’ve always remembered and liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/123 "2008-04-14T17:19:08Z")
Missed the edit window. Here is a bio of [Kevin Carter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter), who took the picture of the Sudanese girl. There are apparently conflicting reports of what exactly happened. ---
**Author:** ![Sanity\_Challenged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sanity\_Challenged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sanity_Challenged)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/124 "2008-04-14T17:21:55Z")
4 pages in, and I’m the first person scarred enough by the Internet to admit that I thought of Britney Spears flashing her loony li’l poony? Ugh. I need a drink. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/125 "2008-04-14T18:07:42Z")
Great thread. The first one that popped into my mind was the V-J Day kiss, the second the Iwo Jima raising the flag, followed closely by the 9/11 WTC & Challenger shuttle shots. But I’m surprised these photos haven’t been added yet: [Marilyn](http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/associated%20press_marilyn_monroe_seven_yr_itch_L.jpg) [American Girl In Italy](http://www.hackelbury.co.uk/images/artists/icons/6.orkin_bg.jpg) [Mapplethorpe’s portrait of Patti Smith](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/slideshows/panic/rm.jpg) (actually, a few other Mapplethorpe photos come to mind, but I’ll refrain from posting them in the interests of workplace safety.) ---
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/126 "2008-04-14T18:55:15Z")
[QUOTE=Who\_me?] Mine was [this](http://www.hobbyistsoftware.com/Initiate-backgrounds/Iwo%20Jima.jpg) one. [/QUOTE] This is exactly what I thought of when I read the title. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/127 "2008-04-14T19:30:51Z")
My first thought was the Hindenburg, but I also thought of this one as well. [![](https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/wright_flight.jpg) ](https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/wright_flight.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/128 "2008-04-14T19:32:35Z")
This is the photograph that I immediately thought of: [Thích Quảng Ðức](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Burningmonk.jpg). I’m not really sure why. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/129 "2008-04-14T19:42:40Z")
I’m bugged now. There’s a particular photograph that I wanted to add to this thread but can’t seem to locate. Now it’s driving me crazy. The image is from the Olympic games, sometime in the 1980s (I think it was '84?) of a sprinter/runner who suffered a muscle spasm and fell to the ground. The photo shows a medic rushing to her aid, while the runner, in tears, looks down the track at her competitors running on (and consequently, seeing her dreams of an Olympic medal vanishing before her eyes.) Does this ring a bell with anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/130 "2008-04-14T19:49:18Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] I’m bugged now. There’s a particular photograph that I wanted to add to this thread but can’t seem to locate. Now it’s driving me crazy. The image is from the Olympic games, sometime in the 1980s (I think it was '84?) of a sprinter/runner who suffered a muscle spasm and fell to the ground. The photo shows a medic rushing to her aid, while the runner, in tears, looks down the track at her competitors running on (and consequently, seeing her dreams of an Olympic medal vanishing before her eyes.) Does this ring a bell with anyone? [/QUOTE] [Mary Decker](http://www.contactpressimages.com/portfolios/burnett/main_pix/burnett_port5o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/131 "2008-04-14T19:49:48Z")
**Who\_Me?** got mine. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/132 "2008-04-14T19:53:07Z")
[QUOTE=beowulff] This one: [http://www.brianripley.com/images/ExecuteVietCong-Feb1-68w.jpg](http://www.brianripley.com/images/ExecuteVietCong-Feb1-68w.jpg) [/QUOTE] The Viet Cong execution is the one I thought off too. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/133 "2008-04-14T20:02:36Z")
I’m kind of surprised no one has posted [Dewey Defeats Truman](http://www.nytstore.com/ProdDetail.aspx?prodId=2181). ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/134 "2008-04-14T20:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=susan] [Here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TrangBang.jpg) [/QUOTE] That’s what I had in mind. When I was 5 or 6 (probably not more than a few years after the photo was taken), I liked looking through my parents’ encyclopedias and I saw that photo. I was disturbed by it, but for reasons that I didn’t know at the time. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/135 "2008-04-14T20:05:33Z")
Same as Beowulff’s in post number 8. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/136 "2008-04-14T20:10:56Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] What happened to the child? I’m assuming after the photographer snapped the picture, he chased away the vulture and snatched up the child and took him to safety? [/QUOTE] Unfortunately, no. The Pulitzer-winning photographer, Kevin Carter, and other journalists and they were told, in no uncertain terms, they were not allowed to move anyone because of the risk of transmitting disease. He did chase away the vulture and the girl got back up and continued on her way to the feeding center, but other than that he wasn’t able to help. He was surrounded by _hundreds_ of starving children. He told an interviewer that afterwards he sat under a tree smoking cigarettes and crying, and wishing he could hug his own daughter. He was traumatized but a lot of what he’d witnessed while on assignment and committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 33. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/137 "2008-04-14T20:18:31Z")
I too thought of the [Hindenburg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Hindenburg_burning.jpg). But only because I recently saw [this](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/1362599_02bcdea730.jpg?v=0) and have been chuckling ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/138 "2008-04-14T21:14:33Z")
The **Dewey Defeats Truman** photo made me think of [this](http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/truman.jpg) photo (of Truman & Lauren Bacall). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/139 "2008-04-14T21:17:11Z")
Sorry to simulpost, but here’s another [photo](http://www.bob-west.com/ng/paris.jpg) that just came to mind that ought to be in this thread. (Truman made me think of Bacall, who made me think of Bogart, who made me think of “Casablanca”, which made me think of the nazi’s storming Paris. See how my mind works?) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/140 "2008-04-14T23:34:35Z")
I can’t see anything. Is it the weeping Frenchman? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050.md?page=8)