*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 4:13am PDT - promote requested by enoch.

Warsaw, 12/07/1970

Nice video but it really needs to be re-edited and slowed down, with dissolves between the pictures. It came across more like a speed-reading test rather than a powerful presentation of some very emotional scenes.

But kudos for not seeing the word "iconic" to describe the pictures. That word came out of nowhere this past year and now I can't read a news story without something being referred to as "iconic", whether it's Trayvon Martin's hoodie, McDonald's golden arches or the President's left butt cheek.

When an actress who played one of Scarlett O'Hara's younger sisters died recently, the news story referred to her "iconic" role as the younger sister. Iconic? I don't think she had more than 3 lines in the whole freaking movie. It's just one of those irritating words that the media grabs ahold of one day and then journalistic hacks use it to death, along with quintessential, crooner, diva, etc. etc.

But I digress. Thanks for posting this.

>> ^ulysses1904:

Nice video but it really needs to be re-edited and slowed down, with dissolves between the pictures. It came across more like a speed-reading test rather than a powerful presentation of some very emotional scenes.

I agree. These were very moving but I had to keep pausing just so I could let all those powerful images fully sink in.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/most-powerful-photographs-ever-taken for the non-video version and big images.

WOrds on this video were utterly moot. Upvote anyway.

A few key pictures seem to be missing...

The Napalm Girl picture, which just turned 40 last month.

The KSU Shooting picture of Mary Ann Vecchio.

The V-J Day in Times Square kiss.

The National Geographic picture of Sharbat Gula, although that might not fit the mold the rest of them do, that one is just great photo and not so much a moment caught the way the others are.

Of course I guess we could all point to pictures that caught a moment that we think should have been added to the list...

>> ^RFlagg:

A few key pictures seem to be missing...
The Napalm Girl picture, which just turned 40 last month.


Same era, the Saigon street execution.