Iconic Photographs
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Good to imagine she was not sporting a Sherwood Forest.
Band the Bush - I don't like picking hair out of my teeth when I'm eating.
That is some serious boob envy.
Or she may have been thinking I can't wait to get my face between them tonight.
Ah the days when women didn't ruin themselves by injecting silicone into their bodies.
You're correct in a few cases, some are well known, but aren't really iconic. Some are from movies or are portrait/face shots and have some relevance, but not all can be seen as iconic. While Sharon Stone's box scene was very hot for it's time, it's impact on history is moot. It was a very talked about scene, but has little relevance even in cinema standards.
#56 is Papa..Ernest Hemingway and his face shot is somewhat iconic, as he is a well known literary figure.
#57 is the Sharon Stone screen shot from a movie..of no significance at all
#60 is a screen shot of Ursula Andress, from the James Bond movie Dr No. A shot of no relevance, even by cinema standards. She was very good looking though.
That's very true, but still a very iconic photo from history, by an iconic photographer. The footage from the original flag raising wasn't of good quality, so for the people at home it was re-staged for the news reels, for propaganda purposes and war bonds sales. This from a very bloody battle on the island of Iwo Jima. If memory serves me correct, most, if not all those who raised the original flag were killed in battle.
49 is one that I posted. It was the Vancouver hockey riot after the Canucks lost. I thought it was a great shot because in the middle of all the stupid human vermin-like behaviour, here were these 2 kids who were the very antithesis of everything that was going on around them. Young love. Something most of us can relate to. Hope springs eternal.
50 is another one that I posted. It was taken at Lac Megantic when the train which belonged to the Montreal Maine and Atlantic railway broke away and then derailed in town killing 49 people. The juxtaposition between the statue of Christ (the Catholic church being so Omni-present in Quebecois culture even to this day) and the raging hell fire inferno simultaneously ending those lives was remarkable to me. At the same time, there is the thought that Christ is indeed a vengeful deity.
56 is Ernest Hemingway and if you are an admirer of English literature as I am (along with the Beatles), you know who Hemingway is and you've seen this photo a thousand times.
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Just my opinion but 49 looks staged.
I thought 50 might have been the Mississauga train fire way back in the 80's.
I had no idea what Hemingway looked like.
Post #59
-The Day The Music Died-Feb.3,1959
The crash scene.The bodies of Buddy Holly(far left),The Big Bopper(in the corn field),& Ritchie Valens(foreground).
Do you believe that? I think there are other intelligent life forms in other parts of the universe.
Our good Earth is just a tiny speck in a vast ocean of darkness. Makes one feel just how insignificant we are. Yet we are the only intelligent life form in this huge universe.
Our good Earth is just a tiny speck in a vast ocean of darkness. Makes one feel just how insignificant we are. Yet we are the only intelligent life form in this huge universe.
Given how how many atrocities human kind has committed and how we have destroyed this planet I would hardly consider us intelligent. It is surprising that we have lived so long.
Merry Christmas all
Subjects for a much larger discussion.
That photo was taken by an astronaut on Apollo 8 as it circled the moon on Christmas eve and day in 1968. Each of the 3 astronauts (two Protestants and one Catholic) recited short passages from Genesis as they watched in awe at that tiny blue speck we call Earth.
