I think that was the first visual representation of “Epic fail.”
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.
My almost immediate choice was Earth Rise.
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. 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.
I thought of this one.
No. I didn’t realise there was a “no watch” version, to be honest with you.
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 , but two 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.
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.
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.
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
Holy crap! How did that happen?
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.
That ‘Earth rise’ picture is something of an illusion too, well from the perspective of the person who took it.
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.
From Wikipedia:
The page on the Paris Montparnasse train station.
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.
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.
The Hubble Deep Field
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
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.
I thought of the Apollo 17 “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).
For some reason I always think of this one
