Pictures that shapes the 20th Century..!!!

CA Dauzi Pathan Imran Khan (Chartered Accountant in Practise)   (1678 Points)

05 January 2011  

As I posted 7 Pics, but CCI deleted that post. Since they thought It does contain any implicit material. Though, I am posting only pics which are CLEAN..!!

When life becomes just a matter of survival, people forget how to smile. The blank expression of the migrant mother reflected the miserable state of the Great Depression era. The ‘Migrant Mother’ photo was taken by Dorothea Lange.

 

(Left) The Shanghai Baby by H S Wong: The wounded infant crying for help after Shanghai was bombed by the Japanese army. In a world that was torn apart by war, there seemed to be no end for human atrocities. When collateral damage became inevitable, the common man’s life had no value. (Right) The photograph of firefighter Chris Fields removing infant Baylee Almon from the rubbles of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after Oklahoma City got bombed. The baby, who celebrated his first b’day just a day before calamity struck, later died in the hospital.

 

This young man dared to face a column of tanks as the Chinese military forcibly tried to remove student protesters who gathered to challenge the Communist rule at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. This image is often hailed as championing the spirit of democracy and freedom.

(Left) A photograph by Mike Wells which shows a priest holding the hands of a starving child in Uganda. (Right) A physiotherapist holding the leg of a seven-year-old child at a clinic run by an NGO to cater to victims of the gas tragedy in Bhopal which killed about 4,000 people. (Pic by Saurabh Das)

The unknown Afghan girl and her emerald eyes caught the world’s attention as it appeared on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Photographer Steve McCurry spotted Sharbat Gula, who lost both her parents in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, at a refugee camp in Pakistan