Thursday, July 08, 2010

The best picture in the world

hello, seems like i'm going my first post using my new theme blog lol. Okay first i got it from my brother, he told me that there are a great photos which describe a child andthe vultures. so i search it on Google and fouf the site. check it out.

1. Afghan Girl (1984)

This picture was taken by Steve McCurry of National Geographic Potograper. The girl in this photo is one of Sugar sharbat school students in Afghan refugee reception center. This photo is famous because there is rarely a chance to immortalize profile Afghan women face. Sugar sharbat estimated 12 years at the time this picture was taken.

Photographer: Steve McCurry
Source: nationalgeographic.com




2. Stricken Child Crowling Towards a Food Camp (1994)
These pictures managed to get a Pulitzer acknowledged. This photo was taken in 1994, during the famine in Sudan. Depicting a child crawling towards a United Nations camp, located a few kilometers. And also a vulture waiting to eat the boy's death. This photo makes the whole world was shocked. No one knows what happened to the boy, including the potograper Kevin Carter who left the place immediately after the photo was taken. Three months later Kevin Carter committed suicide due to depression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter Photographer: Kevin Carter

3. Tourist Guy (2001)
This photo, photos of tourists who have been in the edited disotosop attacks after September 11, 2001. Tourists in this photo is Peter Guzli. There are parties who claim that the picture is from a camera found in the rubble at Ground Zero. This photo won the best 9 / 11 photoshopped picture contest.
Photographer: Photoshop





4. Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation (1963)
June, 11 1963. Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself to death alive in the middle of the road. He did it as a form of protest against the south Vietnamese government's repressive actions and demanded equal rights with Catholics Buddhists.
Photographer: Malcolm Browne





5. The Power of One (2007)
This photo won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography in 2007. Testimony to this photo: "awarded to Oded Balilty of The Associated Press for his powerful photographs of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they want remove illegal Settlers in the West Bank."
Photographer: Oded Balilty (Associated Press)





6. Palestinian Martyr (2000)
This photo is not from the original camera shots. But from screenshoot video. Which describes the moment in which a Palestinian Jamil ad-Durra was trying to protect her son from a hail of bullets Israeli soldiers. TV reporter from the BBC who resigned to take a picture can only watch Jamil ad-Dura and his son Mohammed was trapped and just hiding behind the barrel between the Israeli army gunfire with Palestinian militants. Mohammed died in this incident. While Jamil ad-Durra survived with serious injuries. Ambulance driver who tried to help them also die.
Image from: BBC


















Okay, to see more pictures, go to http://www.iniyes.com/foto-foto-terbaik-di-dunia.

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