[joak]

Originally Posted by Hotstuff ↗

Tragedy In Oklahoma (1995)

The fireman has taken the time to remove his gloves before receiving this infant from the policeman.

Anyone who knows anything about firefighters know that their gloves are very rough and abrasive and to remove these is like saying I want to make sure that I am as gentle and as compassionate as I can be with this infant that I don't know is dead or alive.

The fireman is just cradling this infant with the utmost compassion and caring.

He is looking down at her with this longing, almost to say with his eyes: "It's going to be OK, if there's anything I can do I want to try to help you."

He doesn't know that she has already passed away.

where do you get this shit from?!?!?! fucking retarded.


some of the pics are pretty powerful, but this shit is fucking RETARDED!

[Adipocere]

Thank You
Very well done!!! Great collection of photographs, and excellent documenting of reality...

[jovz999]

Love this page!!!

[boostedm10]

Awesome and very moving photos.

[JoeS1981]

Wonderful collection of images

[Cancun78]

Originally Posted by Hotstuff ↗

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (1932)

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam.

That photo makes me dizzy and anxious, lol always has. No fucking way I could do that. Heights and certain scenarios do that too me. I walked out a beam to an abandoned barge along the ohio river last year. Was only 5 feet from land to ship but I got out there and imagined falling through the rusty metal deck. Freaked the fuck out slightly had my friend had to come lead me back to shore.

When I was 16, we used to go down in that same area, maybe even the same ship and jump off it whenever another boat would roll down the river and create waves. Looking back that was beyond dangerous. probably could have been sucked up under it among other things.

[NEVERBACKZ]

[johnleeknoefler]

Originally Posted by Hotstuff ↗

Phan Thị Kim Phúc (1972)

Phan Thị Kim Phúc known as Kim Phuc (born 1963) was the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam war. The picture shows her at about age nine running naked after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack.

Associated Press photographer Nick Ut earned a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph. It was also chosen as the World Press Photo of the Year for 1972. The image of Kim Phuc running naked amid the chaos became one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War. In an interview many years later, she recalled she was yelling, Nóng quá, nóng quá ("too hot, too hot") in the picture.

After snapping the photograph, Ut took Kim Phuc and the other injured children to Barsky Hospital in Saigon, where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she probably would not survive. After a 14-month hospital stay and 17 surgical procedures, however, she was able to return home. Ut continued to visit her until he was evacuated during the fall of Saigon, three years later

In the above photo top left is Ut taking a photo of the napalm drop that burned Kim. Top right Kim being given water by Ut.

Kim Phúc with her baby.

[Bastet]

Very remarkable and compelling shots. I got to see many of them and get familiar with the stories behind them in a young age, for example the Einstein and Kim pics were presented in my school books. I also appreciate johnleeknoefler's post above regarding Kim

[vexacon]

Sam the Koala


Sam (died 6 August 2009), also known as Sam the Koala, was a female koala from the forests of Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia. She became publicly known when a video and photographs of her being rescued by a firefighter were distributed on the internet and through the media during the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires.



Initial encounter

A mobile phone video of the event, which attracted just under 1,200,000 hits on YouTube, shows firefighter David Tree approaching Sam who initially attempts to flee but then stops—Tree later speculated that the koala had been thinking "I can't run, I'm weak and sore, put me out of my misery"—and Tree calls for water. Sam is then shown drinking from a bottle he is holding for her. She is also seen allowing herself to be patted, and holding her paw on his hand. Sam became a symbol of hope. It was initially thought that Sam had been rescued by Tree following the February 2009 Victorian bushfires; however, the event actually occurred in the week before the worst of the fires, during backburning operations initiated by firefighters. Tree and his crew came across Sam when they were blacking out after the fires had gone through. The video was recorded by Tree and other firefighters; it had been intended for Tree's daughter.

Treatment

Sam was subsequently taken to the Southern Ash Wildlife Centre in Rawson where she was found to be suffering from second-degree burns to her paws and given painkillers. Caretakers at the shelter expected that it would take her about eight months to recover. Based on the condition of her teeth, the shelter manager estimated her to be between two and four years old. She was placed with a male koala named Bob, who had been rescued from another of the bushfire areas two days earlier and was suffering from third-degree burns.

Subsequent events

Sam's story was featured in media outlets worldwide, including The New York Times and CNN. Gossip site TMZ.com mocked the rescue, calling Sam "pampered"; this drew significant reader backlash and attention. TMZ later apologised to Sam and to Australia as a whole.

Sam was euthanised on 6 August 2009. The decision was made after exploratory surgery on her urinary bladder and uterus to evaluate the possible removal of cysts caused by urogenital chlamydiosis. As her condition was inoperable the veterinarian stated that the decision was made to euthanise to prevent her suffering. Sam's remains were moved to Melbourne Museum where they were preserved as a symbol of the bushfires.

Related products

An image of Sam with David Tree was used as cover art on a fundraising CD, Bushfire Aid, to which 35 national and international artists donated songs. All proceeds were donated to the Salvation Army Bushfire Appeal. A total of A$300,000 was also raised for the Country Fire Authority and other charities through selling photographs of Sam's rescue.