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Tocmai ce am primit doua imagini din Bucurestiul anului 1941. Fotografiile datate 24.07.1941 sunt realizate la exact o luna dupa ce Romania s-a aliat Germaniei in campania militara antisovietica (24.06.1941) si la doua zile inaintea eliberarii Basarabiei de sub ocupatia Rusiei comuniste (26.07.1941)
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On the second day of the Tet Offensive, Edward Thomas Adams and an NBC news crew heard gunfire. They followed the noise to a street corner where South Vietnamese soldiers were leading a handcuffed Viet Cong captive to Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the South Vietnamese National Police. Assuming the prisoner was about to be interrogated, Adams raised his camera to capture the moment. Instead, he took a picture of Lung shooting the prisoner in the head. (Adams later learned that the prisoner was a Viet Cong officer responsible for slaughtering an entire family.)
If you’ll make a top of the world’s most important war pictures, this Pulizer wining image will be on the first place for sure. For Americans, if they have to describe “patriotism” in a single picture, this will be more than enough.
I’m sure that some of you already know the pictures and the history of this man but I have to publish these images here anyway. It is very strange for me to see the eyes of a man who will know he will die in the next minutes. In this kind of pictures I really identify the true power of photography. This man died more than 60 years ago but this touching face expression it is still printed and somehow alive.
These images are relatively new on the Internet. It was a little bit shocking for me to see them. I just heard some stories from my grandfather and from some books that the Bucharest was hit in 4th and 15th of April 1944 by American and Britannic planes but I never guessed that it was at this scale.
I just found these images on the net. All the images are of what’s identified as “bomb fall plot” photos.
This portrait is probably the most well known portrait in the world.
This man is not dead yet but he will be in the next few milliseconds.
