Wednesday, 5 July 2017

WORLD FAMOUS 4 PHOTOGRAPHS


1.Afgan girl Sharbat Gula
(Sharbat Gula is the subject of Steve MC Curry's Afgan girl.This photograph was short in December 1984).Afgan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve MC Curry which was appeared on the June 1985 cove of National Geographic.
The image is a young girl with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intently at the camera. it has been likened to 'Leonardo da vinci's psainting of the Mona Lisa' and has been called"The First World's Third Mona Lisa"The image became "emblematic " of a refugee girl located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion of the Western viewer .it was published in the June 1984 issue of National Geographic.

2.The face of a boy hearing for the first time -Harold Whittles
               The photo was taken by photographer jack  Bradely and depicts the exact moment this boy Harold Whittles, hears for the very first time ever. The doctor treating him has just placed an earpiece in his left ear ."Date unknown".

3.Thich Quang Duc
            Thich Quang Duc (1897-11 june 1963,born Lam Van Tuc) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 june 1963 . photographs of his self immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diem government . john F Kennedy said in reference to the photograph ,"No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as the one"Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer  price for his photograph of the monk's death .Journalist Malcolm  Browne's  photograph of Quang Duc during his self -immolation , a similar photograph won the 1963 World press photo of the year.

4.Phan Thi Kim Phuc
                   Phan Thi Kim Phuc (born April 2,1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the nine year old child depicted in the Pulitzer prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam war on june 8, 1972. The iconic photo, taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut, shows her at nine years of age running naked on a road after being severly burned on her back by south Vietnamese attack.

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