# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/161 "2008-04-17T20:08:14Z")
[QUOTE=Gulo gulo] The first one that pops in my head that hasn’t already been mentioned is the top photo on [this](http://www.dpca.org/Legisltv/Photos.htm) page. While not ‘famous’ it often shows up in email glurge with an inaccurate description. [/QUOTE] What’s the inaccurate glurge associated with that picture? I’m assuming that the link you’ve provided offered the accurate description - and can’t imagine how you’d make it even more glurgy. ---
**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 17, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/162 "2008-04-17T20:08:47Z")
These photos aren’t so famous any more, but I thought they were worth mentioning - [the Cottingley Fairies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies): In the 1920s, there were a series of photos of some English country girls froclicking with some supposedly [real](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg) [fairies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cottingley_Fairies_2.jpg). They were a huge sensation at the time, and many people were fooled into believing they were genuine pictures. To a modern-day viewer, the photos look obviously doctored (especially the second picture - just look at the girl’s hand). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/163 "2008-04-17T20:23:07Z")
I thought of the Joe Rosenthal photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. [This page](http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm) features the iconic picture in both cropped and uncropped versions, along with related shots. Of the many memorable photos not yet mentioned, the one at the top of [this page](http://www.zonezero.com/editorial/diciembre99/december.html) resonates with me. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/164 "2008-04-17T20:36:58Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] Weird - it lists the artist as Margaret Bourke-White, but the caption clearly states it was taken by her assistant. [/QUOTE] And I always think of it as being one of hers even though it obviously couldn’t be. I guess it works like renaissance painters - the master gets credit for the works the apprentices create. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/165 "2008-04-17T22:44:04Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] What’s the inaccurate glurge associated with that picture? I’m assuming that the link you’ve provided offered the accurate description - and can’t imagine how you’d make it even more glurgy. [/QUOTE] I guess you can say it’s just some _extra added_ glurge: [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gratitude.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/166 "2008-04-17T23:04:44Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] I’m not sure why, exactly, but [this one](http://home.hum.uva.nl/oz/elsaesser/911%20-%20Ruby-shooting-Oswald1.jpg) popped into my head when I saw the thread title. [/QUOTE] Me too! Wonder what that means. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/167 "2008-04-17T23:09:48Z")
> [@](#): > > [Marilyn](http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/associated%20press_marilyn_monroe_seven_yr_itch_L.jpg) I can’t believe the thread went so far without this photo. It was the first one I thought of, quickly followed by [http://photography.si.edu/upload/Images/sm\_878\_Image\_250.jpg](http://photography.si.edu/upload/Images/sm_878_Image_250.jpg) It’s Marion Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial…and I’m a little peeved I can’t get a larger resolution of the shot. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/168 "2008-04-17T23:37:08Z")
[Tiananmen Square Guy.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tianasquare.jpg) Apparently his official web meme title is Tank Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/169 "2008-04-18T02:21:10Z")
[QUOTE=FaerieBeth] I can’t believe the thread went so far without this photo. It was the first one I thought of, quickly followed by [http://photography.si.edu/upload/Images/sm\_878\_Image\_250.jpg](http://photography.si.edu/upload/Images/sm_878_Image_250.jpg) It’s Marion Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial…and I’m a little peeved I can’t get a larger resolution of the shot. [/QUOTE] [Wikipedia](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/MarianAndersonLincolnMemorial.png) is your friend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/170 "2008-04-18T02:52:19Z")
First was the V-J Day kiss. Second was [this Dust Bowl pic](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e6/400px-Dust_Bowl_Oklahoma.jpg), which I don’t think anyone else has mentioned. How many of the pics in this thread entered our consciousness through _Life_ magazine? ---
**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 18, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/171 "2008-04-18T05:04:37Z")
Mine’s this one: > **[National Geographic](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/)** > > Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050/172 "2008-04-18T12:30:00Z")
Just saw a docu about this so it’s in my head and I’m finding it hard to get it out. [9/11 falling man](http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/23/trade_narrowweb__300x478,0.jpg) I don’t know if it’s famous but this is the image that probably has had the biggest effect on me. I actually hate the guy in the middle toasting the scene with a passion that I’ve rarely felt for people I’ve actually meet. The aftermath of a lynching/burning([http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Omaha\_courthouse\_lynching.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Omaha_courthouse_lynching.jpg)) I love this image of Orson Wells [arriving for the premiere of Citizen Kane](http://imagesrvr.epnet.com/embimages/imh/mptv/full/mptv05800283.jpg). There’s such confidence in himself in the image. He was really top of the world when that was taken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-of-a-famous-photo/445050.md?page=8)