[Misc] A thread full of Iconic photos

Jesus Gul · 2024-10-25T06:45:22+0100

Albion my Albion · 2024-10-25T07:13:20+0100

Albion my Albion · 2024-10-25T07:15:13+0100

Albion my Albion · 2024-10-25T07:17:26+0100

Albion my Albion · 2024-10-25T07:20:13+0100

Quebec Seagull · 2024-10-25T07:24:44+0100

THIS IS HOW THEY RIOT IN VANCOUVER

Albion my Albion · 2024-10-25T07:26:28+0100

The cast of the film "Alien" 1979

Happy Exile · 2024-10-25T07:51:30+0100

Muzzman · 2024-10-25T08:26:09+0100

Hiroshima 'Stopped Watch'.

Muzzman · 2024-10-25T08:28:26+0100

Atomic Cloud. I remember this photo being on the front cover of history books at school during the 80s-90s.

Bodian · 2024-10-25T09:22:56+0100

Albion my Albion said:
No, not faked. That IS the building of the Empire State Building.

It was the Rockefeller Centre. It wasn't 'faked' as such - in that it was indeed workmen sitting on a beam high above the ground. But it was 'staged' in that they didn't normally sit there and have their lunch - but did so for three photographers who also took other photos of men sleeping / walking on the beams and so on.

So, staged yes - but still Iconic.

The Cartier Bresson mention earlier is interesting as well - because his initial 'decisive moment' pictures were re-takes. Again, iconic, but staged. But not faked as we think of the meaning today.