Powerful pictures

That makes sense, and I agree with you to the extent that I'm not personally moved by the pic, yet I acknowledge it's importance.
I do have a little bit of pride behind the fact that we were able to elect someone who is 99% of the time referred to as a black man. If you would have told me ten years ago that a black man would be elected in '08, I would have laughed in your face. I genuinely didn't think this nation was capable of getting past its biases on such a huge scale.
 
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It's that fact that the soldier jumped out of bed while their outpost was under attack and only had time to put on his helmet and body armor. I'm sorry I don't cum every time I see a hammer and sickle.
 
I know it's not powerful in the sense that most of these other pictures are. But being up here almost alone at six in the morning was one of the greatest things I've ever done.
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Fucking great Album tooooooooo. Don't forget "A commercial" on Bedtime for Democracy and "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round." Great stuff.
 
definitely some really powerful stuff in here. the pictures i was going to post have already been posted so ive got nothing to contribute
 
No not at all.Think about being in the position of the photographer (WHO WAS NOT THERE TO MAKE HISTORY BY THE WAY). You are standing there, attempting to get the perfect shot for 20 MINUTES watching this starving, near-death, little girl be stalked by a Vulture. That is the most inhumane, ridiculous, least sympathetic person ever. By the way he later committed suicide because he most likely came to realize the horror of his actions. After the photograph was taken he just left the scene. No one knows what ended up happening to the girl. How depressing and distraught is that? This photo appalled me when I first saw it and still does.
 
I agree it is disgusting that he didn't do anything but look at it like this.

People that are that close to death from starvation, if you try to give them water or food, human/animal instinct kicks in and they try to gorge themselves and that can kill them as well. Many Jews died after they were freed because the US and Soviet GIs felt so bad for them that they gave all of their rations and stuff to them and they died cause they ate and drank far too much.

I know he could have taken her to a pplace that could help her but if he had tried to help her himself he probably would have still killed her.
 
Yes I understand that.What I don't understand is how one can watch another die. It's probably the most horrible thing you can witness. And for entertainment purposes. It's out of my comprehension...
 
I'm not claiming that what the photog did was either ethically right or wrong, but I am saying that your rationale/justification for his inaction is absolutely idiotic. Come on, man...
You're saying that helping her would've killed her, thereby implying he did the right thing...or something. That's laughable. We're talking about a fucking toddler completely incapable of feeding herself, let alone gorging herself to the point of shocking her system and ultimately leading to her death.
Barring any sort of actual lethal illness present (which neither you nor the photog could know....you'll probably give me AIDS rates and claim she was probably bound to die or some stupid shit), she's just dehydrated and emaciated....giving her a bit of water and a small amount of food would have inarguably saved her life.
You know, instead of approaching this from an "argumentative for the sake of being argumentative" stance to prove....well, I don't know what exactly—likely how "smart" you are (random holocaust reference that has zero connection other than there were obviously horridly under-nourished people involved?), why not just shut it? That other guys post didn't need a response, and it certainly didn't need the one you gave.
You must just love the sound of your own voice, the look of your own words.
 
Yeah I can agree with that but we have no idea what else that guy may have seen.

Reporters, especially photographers in areas like that see some horrible things that they never record or talk about. Who knows, maybe based on the filter of the area he had been in for awhile prior to the photo that was "normal".
 
That argument is wrong in so many ways.
Anyone with a shred of experience/common sense can revive her with supplies costing less than what I'm going to spend on breakfast tomorrow morning. A little water, half a cup of soup, maybe a bag of IV fluids and girly's got a very good chance. Things a western photographer wouldn't be caught dead without in Africa. Decent chance the photographer has a basic medical kit and transport. It's not guaranteed, certainly, but recovery is not only possible, it's probable.
On her own, out there, her odds of recovery aren't odds but delusions. She's done. I know it, you know it, even the local fucking bird population has cottoned on. So why forsake her? Why leave her out to wilt away while being actively consumed by scavengers? Because there is a risk to her well being?
I mean fuck, Panda, use your head a little.

 
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Talk about how small we are... This is the Hubble Deep Field photo. The telescope was given about a million second long exposure to one part of the sky. The galaxies are mainly ones we have never seen before. This is roughly the size of your thumb at arms length portion of the night sky.
 
Oh really? Would you love the picture just as much if it was a Nazi flag? Because you do realize that it is exactly the same thing - just the Soviet Union is by my understanding responsible for more deaths than Nazi Germany.
 
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