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[ddeubel]

I recently made a presentation titled, "The best photos of all time". I'm teaching a multi media class of teachers and wanted to stimulate their imaginations.

I thought I'd share it here, seeing I put so much work into it and they are just very important and thought provoking images. Our world is moving from the word to the image and I guess I am moving along with it......

http://www.esnips.com/doc/6cb50f48-b54b-413e-a61d-408094095ed7/Best-Photos-of-all-time

Do you have an image / photo to add as being "The Best Photo of All Time" - best being defined as "significant" to the history of that moment?

DD

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Great set - something from your educational site that actually works on my and presumably my school's computers. A bit macabre but nothing Koreans couldn't stomach ('bury' should be 'burying' in the Che photo, btw).

[RACETRAITOR]

I think the very last two were photoshops.

Great selection, although I think you started off with too many space ones. They could probably be arranged better.

Here's one more that seems kind of popular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kent_State_massacre.jpg

I really like this one too. Interesting reaction from the guy.
http://snopes.com/photos/military/burghardt.asp

Here's another important one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nguyen.jpg

[mcgeezer]

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/assets/having_a_smoke.jpg
how about this classic?

[Buff]

The Falling Man

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/6f/250px-The_Falling_Man.jpg

[ddeubel]

Thanks, I'm going to add the Nyguen photo. A classic and should be there. I know I'm probably missing about a dozen more. Maybe even the Kennedy one, or the Jack Ruby photo. I don't think the Kent State one cuts it - though it is significant.

Thanks for mentioning errors. I just usually finish it and post and then later, I'll make corrections as I notice them and repost an edited copy. Usually a few in everything. I have so many projects on the go that I just like to throw it up and then see later.

Also the same with the order. Point taken and I really didn't think of the order except for a few pics.

One I do think I am missing is probably the earliest know photograph. Anyone know what it is? Also, any photo of Hilary on Everest, does one exist?

DD

[cosmo]

Thanks for sharing that ddeubel. There certainly are some classic and provocative photos there.
Photography is indeed awesome, and images are an educational resource that are
"worth a thousand words" in the classroom.

That inspiring educational quotation presentation of yours is good too.
I showed it to some of my students today. Who is responsible for that nice music?

My most historically significant photo is a picture of my kid as a baby,
bathing in a basin of water, a duck and ducklings pull toy in the background.

[pastis]

That was pretty cool! I agree with maybe rearranging it a tad, like putting the space photos in the middle.

Also, I think you missed the super famous "Afghan woman" photo:



You might check out other National Geographic covers, or other magazines like "Time" for really famous photos.

[ddeubel]

cosmo,

Joe Satriani - "If I could fly". He has some really good instrumental stuff..... I now hope to find a perfect presentation for Ali Farke Toure but still haven't....

And you are right, "significant" is best personal and close.

DD

[RACETRAITOR]

Not the earliest photos, but some of the earliest colour images to exist were taken by this Russian guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

[pastis]

How about this one: http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-07/world-first-photograph-nicephore-niepce.jpg

Supposed to be the first photograph (or attempt at least) ever taken.

[butlerian]

I liked it very much, but there did appear to be a little bias towards events and people of particular importance to Americans.

[cwemory]

enjoyed your photos. perhaps your students would also enjoy this photo, taken in 1871 and considered to be the first photograph of Korea

a google image search should allow you to find a larger copy.

[just alittlecrazy]

[jvalmer]

IMO two powerful images of war which is up there with that young naked Vietnamese girl running...


A very young marine in Vietnam.


And probably an orphaned Korean girl with her little brother on her back.