Author Topic: The Admiral's Favourite Photos Thread (Read 2042 times)

Admiral Ackbar · « **on:** December 29, 2004, 01:19:28 PM »

Feel free to post your own favourite photographs, here's just a few of mine:

This is a portrait of an Italian actor touring in London in 1867 taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (great aunt to Virginia Woolf). You could easily mistake it for a modern day photo, it has a remarkably modern compostion to it.

Joe Kittinger parachuting from the edge of space. Balls of steel.

Robin Friday of Cardiff City putting one past the keeper with whom he'd been having a ding dong with all game. Classic.

6 words:

Schumacher. Pose. German. Macho. Rain. Denim

Matt S · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:22:31 PM »

the masters at work

Admiral Ackbar · « **Reply #2 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:30:16 PM »

Zep rock.

Try this for size!

Jimbo. · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:33:09 PM »

Drobs · « **Reply #4 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:40:01 PM »

That Schumacher one is bloody awful.

As The Killers echoed......."James Dean in the rain" will have a fish for it in a bit.

And Muhammad Ali standing over the 'big ugly bear'...immortal picture.

Don Vito Corleone · « **Reply #5 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:44:52 PM »

Roddysul · « **Reply #6 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:51:29 PM »

First ever picture of the Earth and Moon in space - taken by Voyager 1 in Sept 1977

laddo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:55:25 PM »

Admiral Ackbar · « **Reply #8 on:** December 29, 2004, 02:00:40 PM »

Don Vito Corleone · « **Reply #9 on:** December 29, 2004, 02:02:13 PM »

Quote from: laddo on December 29, 2004, 01:55:25 PM

laddo · « **Reply #10 on:** December 29, 2004, 02:07:50 PM »

This is actually taken by me...... not bad i thought.... for a shite digicam...

Admiral Ackbar · « **Reply #11 on:** December 29, 2004, 02:11:58 PM »

Bit morbid, this is a photo of the suicide of the City treasurer of Liepzig, and his wife and daughter to avoid being captured by the advancing Allied troops.

Admiral Ackbar · « **Reply #12 on:** December 29, 2004, 02:15:33 PM »

Another by Margaret Bourke-White.

Millsee · « **Reply #13 on:** December 29, 2004, 04:05:51 PM »

anfield_reds · « **Reply #14 on:** December 29, 2004, 07:42:58 PM »

great thread, will post later tonight

anfield_reds · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2004, 09:36:26 PM »

I started a Photos thread on another forum a while ago. I learnt a lot about many photographers from the past, especially about him :

Edward Sheriff Curtis

Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) was an American photographer from Winsconsin who moved in Seattle. He decided in the early days of the 20th century to work on a dying civilization : The North American Indian.

He spent many years travelling around the United States, from a reserve to another, from Alaska to Nevada, from Northern Mexico to Colorado, taking thousands of picture of the native Americans. He sensed that an important civilization was steadily fading away. Thousands-year-old customs and traditions were being lost forever.
He spent a long time with the Indians people (Navajos, Apaches...), trying to understand their culture, before going into his photographer job.

What a like about Curtis' work is that his pictures are not only beautiful, they also teaches History. His work is regarded as a precious and a priceless database by the Historians.

Each Curtis' picture tells you a story about a wonderful civilization that has now disappeared.

GERONIMO, 1905

My favorite :

You can learn more about Edward S. Curtis' work here or here

anfield_reds · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2004, 09:38:59 PM »

I would happily post these pictures in a Native American related thread if needed and wanted...

Andy. · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2004, 10:10:18 PM »

Quote

See, kids, this is what happens when you spend all yer dough on sunbeds...

Matt S · « **Reply #18 on:** December 29, 2004, 10:14:48 PM »

i like this thread, its actually quite interesting

Roddysul · « **Reply #19 on:** December 29, 2004, 10:19:36 PM »

Even though it's Micky missing a sitter against the mancs - I really love this photo

AdamS · « **Reply #20 on:** December 29, 2004, 10:31:44 PM »

anfield_reds · « **Reply #21 on:** December 29, 2004, 10:52:52 PM »

Quote from: -RedTillDead on December 29, 2004, 10:10:18 PM

See, kids, this is what happens when you spend all yer dough on sunbeds...

laddo · « **Reply #22 on:** December 30, 2004, 12:55:33 AM »

Quote from: Roddysul on December 29, 2004, 10:19:36 PM

Even though it's Micky missing a sitter against the mancs - I really love this photo

Think that won (or at least got nominated as) best photo in premiership's first ten years. Very 'captured' the moment.

Plenty of lfc pics in the pictorical history thread in the lfc forum so lets post some non-lfc ones eh lads n lassies!

Roddysul · « **Reply #23 on:** December 30, 2004, 01:15:55 AM »

....and no birds either

How bout this one - would love to know what the gag was

anfield_reds · « **Reply #24 on:** February 16, 2005, 10:49:30 AM »

Fascinating

Paul Simonon (The Clash) is about to smash his bass guitar on the stage after a gig in New York at the Palladium (Sept 21 1979) by photographer Pennie Smith.
The picture was then used as the cover of London Calling, one of the best record ever.

nyujvary · « **Reply #25 on:** April 1, 2005, 01:33:03 PM »

great thread...

This photo is from Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, its not altered at all from what I have read and I just think its a fascinating image...

nyujvary · « **Reply #26 on:** April 1, 2005, 01:40:34 PM »

Quote from: Jimbo. on December 29, 2004, 01:33:09 PM

Cash

fucking brilliant

Forbsie · « **Reply #27 on:** April 1, 2005, 01:40:40 PM »

Just love this picture of the great man

Demandred · « **Reply #28 on:** April 1, 2005, 01:43:40 PM »

Quote from: Millsee on December 29, 2004, 04:05:51 PM

Prefer this one of Ali, dunno why:

Got the colour version on my wall.

rednewbie · « **Reply #29 on:** April 1, 2005, 01:44:30 PM »

nicked from another thread

daddymac · « **Reply #30 on:** April 1, 2005, 01:47:10 PM »

In terms of pictures that move:

Kevin Carter

kevin carter was a South African photographer who won the Pullitzer Prize and later committed suicide due to the feelngs of guilt having taken the picture. His suicide note read:

"I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen... The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."

nyujvary · « **Reply #31 on:** April 1, 2005, 01:54:36 PM »

Here's another two that I find quite moving....

rednewbie · « **Reply #32 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:01:09 PM »

victoria falls

Murf · « **Reply #33 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:08:47 PM »

Auschwitz, these shoes piled up, 25,000 a day left here before they faced death

rednewbie · « **Reply #34 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:26:29 PM »

nyujvary · « **Reply #35 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:27:42 PM »

Ansel Adams, Brilliant photographer...

nyujvary · « **Reply #36 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:28:44 PM »

Quote from: rednewbie on April 1, 2005, 02:26:29 PM

not to be grotesque or anything, but I read somewhere that in that photo the bullet is already in that poor guys head...

BIGdavalad · « **Reply #37 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:32:02 PM »

The most beautiful thing man has ever made

nyujvary · « **Reply #38 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:37:46 PM »

Quote from: BIGdavalad on April 1, 2005, 02:32:02 PM

The most beautiful thing man has ever made

A fan of the spitfire are we...

Try this on for size...

rednewbie · « **Reply #39 on:** April 1, 2005, 02:40:31 PM »

Quote from: nyujvary on April 1, 2005, 02:28:44 PM

not to be grotesque or anything, but I read somewhere that in that photo the bullet is already in that poor guys head...

i seriosly doubt that, there should at least be evidence of a smoking gun if thats the case