Pictures are known to depict a story with them and we wouldn’t agree more. It is all about the vision, the timing. Pictures can create history. Our world is a beautiful place, but every coin has two faces. It is as terrifying as it is beautiful and these photographs have captured the essence of both these worlds.
Have a look.
1. Sailor kissing the nurse.
Japan had surrendered and the war was over with the U.S. As they ran out of the theater, George saw the first nurse, grabbed her, dipped her and gave her a kiss.
2. Black power salute.
Norman was blacklisted from future Olympics appearances because he supported black rights.This photograph is from the 1968 Olympics. Tommie Smith and John Carlos did was a ‘black power’ salute on the podium.
3. Pandit Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten.
Edwina and Nehru share a joke, while Louis looks away. This image took a different turn when it was revealed that Nehru was having an affair with Edwina Mountbatten.
4. Albert Einstein stuck out his tongue
Tired after smiling for cameras, he did this.
5. The Doctor.
The doctor sits after a 23 hours long operation, the assistant can be been sleeping in the corner.
6. Kevin Carter
The vulture was just waiting for the kid to pass away so it would feed. Kevin was so disturbed by this that he took his own life soon after clicking this photograph.
7. The World Trade Center attack
This picture was just taken after the second plane crashed into the tower.
8. Mike Wells
He was ashamed to take this photograph.
9. Major Terri Gurrola reunited with her daughter.
After being deployed her fear was her daughter will not remember her after a year but she did. It left everyone in tears.
10. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King’s famous ” I have a dream ” speech.
11. The Tank Man
The Tank Man was captured by at least five different photographers as the tanks were proceeding to Tiananmen Square.
12. Nelson Mandela
After being set free after 27 years.
13. Pandit Nehru
Pandit Nehru giving the speech at midnight to declare India an independent nation.
14. Marc Riboud
This iconic photograph by Marc Riboud captures a young woman offering a flower to the guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War.
15. Anne Frank
A few months later when she and her family went into hiding.
16. Mumbai attacks
A photo of the Mumbai attacks that lasted 4 long days.
17. Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev receiving the World Cup in 1983.
18. Same-sex marriage legalized in USA.
Siegel, 76, and Kopelov, 84, rejoice as they are granted the right to marry.
19. Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin wall that united East and West Berlin.
20. Earthquake in Japan
An earthquake of 9.0 Richter Scale hit eastern Japan killing over 15,000 and leaving another 9,000 missing.