“A picture is worth a thousand words.” That the best description for great photography. Good photographer will produce direct, truthful and bold images that tell the stories for those who have no voice.
In this post we want to highlight some of photos that give lesson in history. It show why history should always be priority. So here are some historical photos, for your enjoyment and learning.
1. Marc Riboud´s photo of Zazou, the Eiffel tower´s painter, Paris, 1953
2. Exhausted Russian soldiers sleeping with puppy in liberated Prague at the end of the World War II. Prague, May 1945
3. Photo of Alfred Hitchcock and his three granddaughters, Mary, Tere, and Katie
4. W. Eugene Smith´s beautiful portrait of Charlie Chaplin, captured during his preparations on the set of Limelight, 1952
5. The burning of Beatles records in Waycross Georgia in 1966
6. Photo of unknown gentleman with magnificent beard, who-knows-when, who-knows-where
7. Bulgarian peasants using an elephant to plow land, 1900
8. In 1994 Nelson Mandela won the first ever multiracial South African election. Here, supporters climb election bilboard whilst awaiting the arrival of Mandela in a Natal township.
9. Patrick Zachmann´s photo of two lovers in Paris during flooding of the Seine, February 1978
10. Poster in a London travel agency advising people to book their holidays in spite of the tense situation in Europe, 1939
11. British soldiers smile at a ‘Viva Il Duce’ slogan on a wall in Reggio, Italy, September 1943
12. John Cleese and Graham Chapman on the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
13. Roger Vadim preparing Jane Fonda’s costume during the making of the film “Barbarella, 1967
14. Phyllis Gordon ( american actress) with her pet cheetah,shopping in London
15. Photography of young Rudolf Brázda. He died in 2011 and is believed to be the last surviving person, who was sent to a Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald because of his homosexuality
16. Post war reunion of U.S soldier William Best and 19-year old Joseph Guttman, whom he liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, New York 1948
17. Ulster rioter captured by photographer Clive Limpkin during Northern Ireland riots in 1969
18. First known photo of a surfer, Hawaii 1890
19. Salvador Dali and his pet anteater
20. Photo of young Sean Connery in his bodybuilding era
21. The opening of Woodstock. Here image of Swami Satchidananda (Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adep) giving the opening invocation for the festival, 1969
22. Hugh Hefner in his mansion, Chicago 1966
23. Werner Bischof´s image of Frida Kahlo at work, 1954
24. One of Ian Berry´s photos which documents an apartheid-era life in South Africa, Northern Transvaal, 1969
