Video: An overview of the most iconic historical photographs: what the textbooks don't cover
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
History is not only thick textbooks in children's portfolios, but also photographs, which sometimes more vividly demonstrate what is happening than stingy lines. That is why some negatives are carefully stored, and faded photos go under the hammer for big money. No, we are not offering our readers an auction. All the photos presented in our review can be viewed completely free of charge. Look and think. About different things. About the important. About eternal.
At first glance, it seems that the kid is guilty. But no. The child in the photo is walking. This is how the mothers who lived in apartment buildings in 1937 “aired” their children. And the terrifying structure was called not a torture chamber, but a fresh air cage.
Las Vegas, 1953. Mom and son look out the window at the mushroom cloud that appeared after the atomic bomb test.
And this is how everyone's beloved Ronald McDonald looked in 1963.
We continue the photo session of folk favorites. Quite an unusual image of a famous hero. Charlie Chaplin in the photo is only 27 years old. He is naive, shaven and without a headdress. But this is for now.
Class hatred at one time crossed all boundaries. In the photo, the hotel owner pours acid into a pool where black people swim.
But let's not talk about sad things. The next picture, dated 1927, shows a real Winnie the Pooh with his friend Christopher Robin. Probably, if the quality of the photo were better, you could see the remains of honey on the face of the bear.
Anyone who knows what historical event took place in Switzerland in 1967 can explain what is happening in the picture. This is a change in direction of movement from left-hand to right-hand. More precisely - the first morning after the introduction of the decree into force. So who's the blonde?
An outwardly positive picture is saturated with bitterness and sadness. And all because the action took place during the Second World War - the era of scarcity. The boy was presented with a new pair of shoes, which he is incredibly happy about.
And again, a turbulent time. England, 1938. A young mother with a gas mask on her head walks with a gas mask stroller. It looks intimidating, but reliable.
Here it is reality: someone is struggling with the adversity of fate, and someone is committing suicide. In the photo, young Evelyn McHale threw herself from the 83rd floor of the Epair State Building. And she fell not somewhere, but on a UN limousine. Eyewitnesses will call this suicide the most beautiful in the entire history of America (of course, if the concept of "beauty" is generally applicable to death).
Oops! Substitute the cups! So in Detroit, illegal booze was poured out during Prohibition. One can only guess what kind of smell reigned on the pavement after that.
And this is an advertisement from the Second World War. Antimalarial drug was advertised. The skulls on the sign are the remains of those who were not smeared with this very remedy. True, the plate does not specify: the unfortunates died from mosquito bites or due to the revenge of the manufacturer of antimalarial ointment.
Truly beauty requires sacrifice. In a 1907 photo, Annette Kellerman advertises a new bathing suit, which would later seem too daring to the public. As a result, the girl will be arrested and convicted of "obscenity". But who does not threaten to be convicted. So this is the sporting purrs in the Temptations Cat Treats ad. But these are completely different photos, and a different story.
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