[Sharon]

*All text accompanying these images has been edited for ease of reading*


FAMISHED CHINESE CHILD DYING IN A GUTTER, 1946


BOTH BY GEORGE SILK 1946
He was the first photographer to document Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Immediately after the war, he was in China recording the poor social conditions and the lack of resources and its devastating effects on the Chinese populace.


“THE BOMBARDMENT OF PHNOM-PENH,” BY CHRISTINE ENGLER 1974. SURVIVORS SIFT THROUGH RUBBLE AFTER THE KHMER ROUGE BOMB PHNOM PENH, THE CAPITAL OF CAMBODIA. UNDER THE POL POT REGIME, THE KHMER ROUGE ARE LAYING SIEGE TO THE CITY, ATTACKING THE TWO MILLION REFUGEES WHO HAVE GATHERED THERE.


HO VAN TAY WAS LED TO THE CAMP BY THE SMELL OF DECOMPOSING BODIES AND DISCOVERED DECAPITATED VICTIMS STILL SHACKLED TO IRON BEDS. S21 WAS THE NOTORIOUS SECURITY PRISON 21, IN THE CENTER OF PHNOM PENH, 1979


AHMED, 7, THE SON OF AN FSA FIGHTER (FREE SYRIAN ARMY), MANS A BARRICADE IN ALEPPO.


IRAQI MAN WEEPS OVER THE BODY OF HIS DAUGHTER WHO WAS KILLED IN A CAR BOMB EXPLOSION, KIRKUK, 2010


THIS IMAGE (MADE FROM VIDEO) SHOWS AN EXPLOSION AMONG SRI LANKAN MUSLIM MEN DURING A RELIGIOUS PROCESSION, A TAMIL TIGER SUICIDE BOMBER KILLED 14 AND WOUNDED 35, 2009


A WOULD-BE AFRICAN IMMIGRANT CRAWLS PAST SUNBATHERS AFTER HIS ARRIVAL ON A MAKESHIFT BOAT ON THE GRAN TARAJAL BEACH IN SPAIN’S CANARY ISLANDS, 2006


IT IS BELIEVED THAT 40 DAYS IN CHAINS AND A RESTRICTED DIET AT THE 300-YEAR OLD MIA ALI BABA SHRINE NEAR KABUL, AFGHANISTAN CAN CURE THE MENTALLY ILL AND THOSE POSSESSED BY DJINNS, OR SPIRITS. 2009


KATYN 1943, ONE OF THOUSANDS OF POLISH VICTIMS DISCOVERED IN MASS GRAVES WITH THEIR HANDS WIRED BEHIND THEIR BACKS AND A BULLET WOUND IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD


A PROPAGANDA POSTER


A FRENCHMAN WEEPS AS GERMAN SOLDIERS MARCH INTO THE FRENCH CAPITAL, PARIS, ON JUNE 14, 1940, AFTER THE ALLIED ARMIES HAVE BEEN DRIVEN BACK ACROSS FRANCE


A WOMAN PLACES A SHEET OVER TWO CHILDREN WHO WERE KILLED BY THEIR MOTHER WHO THEN KILLED HERSELF AFTER LEARNING HER HUSBAND LOST HIS LIFE FIGHTING OUTSIDE FRANKFURT, 1945


CHILDREN IN NAPLES, ITALY, LITTLE BOY HELPS ONE-LEGGED COMPANION ACROSS STREET, THE BOY LOST HIS LEG AS A RESULT OF THE WAR, AUG 1944


STALINGRAD CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, 1942


STALINGRAD CIVILIAN CASUALTY, 1942


STOIC JAPANESE ORPHAN, STANDING AT ATTENTION HAVING BROUGHT HIS DEAD YOUNGER BROTHER TO A CREMATION PYRE, NAGASAKI, 1945


BRITISH CHILDREN PREPARE TO EVACUATE LONDON, 1940


HEAD OF A NORTH KOREAN PARTISAN, 1952


BENGAL FAMINE 1943


CHILDREN AND DEAD HORSE, STREET IN NEW YORK C.1895


SURVIVORS OF DONG XOAI MASSACRE, SOUTH VIETNAM, 1971


“LOOKING FOR ANY KIND OF WORK,” HAMBURG, GERMANY 1952


LVIV POGROMS, 1941



"The rape of Ivov"
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/20...-rape-of-lvov/


CHILD SOLDIER IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL ARMY, MEXICO 1914


DELIVERY BOY, NEW YORK


A PAKISTANI DISPLACED MAN HOLDS HIS BABY NEXT TO HIS TENT IN JALOZAI REFUGEE CAMP NEAR PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2009. UP TO 3 MILLION PEOPLE FLED THE FIGHTING.


HANDS OF EAST AND WEST GERMANS ARE SEEN TEARING DOWN BARBED WIRE FROM THE TOP OF THE WALL AT THE NEWLY-OPENED OSTPREUSSENDAMM STRASSE CHECKPOINT IN BERLIN, WEST GERMANY, 1989


BROTHERS DRAGGING BROTHER, CHECHNYA, RUSSIA, WINTER 1995


30 JAN 1968, DA NANG, SOUTH VIETNAM. A SOUTH VIETNAMESE WOMAN RUNNING PAST A DEAD BODY


IRAQI BOY AYAD ALIM BRISSAM KARIM SHOWS ONE OF HIS PICTURES TAKEN BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT. US HELICOPTERS ATTACKED THE VEGETABLE FIELD WHERE HE PLAYED LEAVING HIM WITH NO SIGHT AND BURNS TO HIS FACE.


HIROSHIMA EXPLOSION, RECORDED AT 8-15AM, AUGUST 6, 1945, IS SEEN ON THE REMAINS OF A WRISTWATCH FOUND IN THE RUINS IN THIS 1945 UNITED NATIONS PHOTO


JANUARY 1995, GROZNY, CHECHNYA, RUSSIA - A WOMAN LIES IN HER OWN BLOOD


AN IRAQI MAN, THE VICTIM OF A SUICIDE BOMBING, SCREAMS OUT WHEN HE REALIZES HIS LEG HAS BEEN AMPUTATED, AT BAGHDAD’S YARMOOK HOSPITAL


KOSOVO, ALBANIAN MAN, MUSTAFA XAJA, FROM THE TOWN OF MITROVICA IN KOSOVO SHOWS PICTURES OF HIS TWO CHILDREN HE FEARS TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY SERBS DURING THE WAR IN KOSOVO, 1999


LÁSZLÓ BARDOSSY, FASCIST EX-PRIME MINISTER OF HUNGARY, FACING THE FIRING SQUAD, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 1946




EXECUTION BY HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF YOUNG OFFICERS OF THE SECRET POLICE, BUDAPEST 1956


CHILDREN EVICTED FROM THEIR HOME ON E. 121ST STREET, NEW YORK, DATE UNKNOWN


CHRISTIAN GUNMEN LOOTING PALESTINIAN HOMES, BEIRUT, LEBANON, 1976


ETHIOPIAN FAMINE OF 1984


HEAD OF A CHINESE MAN, BEHEADED BY JAPANESE, IS WEDGED IN A BARRICADE NEAR NANKING, DURING THE NANKING MASSACRE


THE SHEER VOLUME OF MURDERED CIVILIANS POSED A FORMIDABLE LOGISTICAL CHALLENGE WHEN IT CAME TO DISPOSING OF THE BODIES. MANY CHINESE WERE CONSCRIPTED INTO BURIAL TEAMS


BEHEADING OF CHINESE WOMAN - AUTHENTICITY UNVERIFIED
I posted the last image as although it looks suspicious, it was part of this fascinating collection.

[blue.beard]

Excellent photos, excellent collection.

[Spiffyfable]

Very interesting and saddening set

[Shakey]

Some sad shit.

[gatagato]

Stellar job!

[LadyCPlum]

I have books showing the pictures of the pogroms in Lvov, the bodies of the Polish Army soldiers in Katyn, but the one that upsets me the most if the French man crying as the flags of defeated French regiments are taking down to be sent out of the country for safekeeping. (That was the original Life caption)

But one of the pictures is actually miscaptioned, the two Hungarians shot by the freedom fighters actually survived their wounds. (Again, this comes from the original Life caption)

[gatagato]

With the photograph captioned "ETHIOPIAN FAMINE OF 1984"
Stan Grossfeld won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985, btw.

[invertigo]

Thanks for a very haunting post, Sharon.
This is one hateful world we live in...


And I agree, that last picture looks bogus to me

[Arkoquisa]

this post is totally tits

[XxMutilatedxX]

OUTSTANDING collection Sharon!