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Hindenburg was the pride of the Nazi Germany. Build by Zeppelin company this was the biggest flying machine of those times and the safest. Started from Frankfurt, Germany and ended in Manchester, New Jersey, USA, the flight was the first transatlantic official flight.
It started out as an assignment and become a legacy. In 1955, the young Magnum photographer Dennis Stock accompanied the rising star James Dean in various locations from US. The resulting photographs would prove to be the best and the most intimate portrait of this idol of the new youth. James Dean died a few months later in a car accident.
If you are going to live the year of 2026, you must remember that you have to celebrate this first picture and the first 200 years of photography. The world of Photography started with one picture and this picture is considered the first permanently captured image.
How is it to be the first human figure on a photographic image? First ever photographed and printed on a photographic paper, it is something or not?
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Neil Armstrong, commander of the Eagle (Lunar Module), was the first man to set foot on the moon. He was shortly followed by the pilot, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. One of the many memorable images taken at the time was that of Edwin Aldrin, a solitary man on an alien planet.
Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of the US president J.F. Kennedy, is escorted to the Dallas City Jail as nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot him in front of the policemen and the press. Oswald died shortly after, taking with him the truth of the US President assassination.
“On 12 February, 1979, a quiet, shy young woman walked into my studio for the first time. She was the nude model for my photography class that evening. She said that she was a dancer, her name was Madonna Ciccone.”
To take a picture of John Lennon a few hours before he will die, do you think it is a good reason?
This portrait is probably the most well known portrait in the world.
