Favourite Historic Image

cliveh · Dec 30, 2011

Do APUG members have a favourite historic image? Mine is probably study of a tree by Fox Talbot

http://photohist.blogspot.com/2009/06/william-henry-fox-talbot-tree.html.

rrankin · Dec 30, 2011

Mine is this one by Julia Margaret Cameron. I got a copy of it printed in Camera Works and had it mounted and framed. Seeing a Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition in NYC years ago was what got me back into photography.

Richard

Shawn Rahman · Dec 30, 2011

Mine is the greatest photograph ever made:

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keithwms · Dec 30, 2011

Mine is probably this astonishing portrait of Frederic Chopin. I don't know whether I am more amazed by the photograph, by the man, or that someone actually got a photograph of him. This image is 162 years old!

(Taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849, a few months before his death. I don't know what gear was used.)

There are many early images of prominent native Americans that I also like very much.

Moopheus · Dec 30, 2011

Hard to narrow it down to just one, but this one is good:

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happyjam64 · Dec 30, 2011

Yeah, there's lots of great ones, but my favorite one is hands down this one!

The story behind it is one of the best stories I've ever heard.

jon koss · Dec 30, 2011

Hope this qualifies. I purchased this at the Brimfield antiques fair forever ago. In person of course there is none of the keystoning or blurriness or flare. When you look at the print itself it just looks as if the fellow in front is a projection from the future that was captured on film. He looks as if he is wearing a period disguise while he is checking his communicator to see when the wormhole is going to open. Every time I pull it out of its storage box I wonder if he will still be in the photo. There is no explaining it but if the house was on fire and everybody was safely out, this is what I would run back in for. Size is great too at something like 14 x 18 inches.

J

jon koss · Dec 31, 2011

Also had the phenomenal luck to view this in person. It absolutely smolders at 8x10 inches (image size). Probably the best print I have seen in terms of pure technical execution. And the subjects are up to the task in a big way. If Jackie spoke it would not surprise the viewer.

J

Neanderman · Dec 31, 2011

Oh, man. There are way too many great images out there to pick just one... That said, here is one of my favorites:

http://www.geh.org/taschen/htmlsrc15/m197300130041_ful.html#topofimage

Ed

X. Phot. · Dec 31, 2011

I found this old photograph buried in a pile of cabinet cards and prints at the Hotel Love in Purcell Oklahoma. Just had to have it. I thought it interesting, even the Nun was packing a folder. http://cowgurlsblessing.blogspot.com/2010/03/hotel-lovepurcell-ok.html

Once downloaded, you may need to click on the image several times to view the largest version.

MattKing · Dec 31, 2011

happyjam64 said:
Yeah, there's lots of great ones, but my favorite one is hands down this one!

The story behind it is one of the best stories I've ever heard.

Much better then the one that followed: http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/karsh02.jpg?w=700

I agree about the story - I was fortunate to hear it directly from Karsh himself.

John Austin · Dec 31, 2011

Not a fun pic, but the one by Dmitri Baltermants of the women looking for sons, husbands, fathers and friends at Kerch in 1942

Perhaps the strongest war image that comes to mind, and although well known is often overshadowed by the huge American publishing machine which gives the impression that only the USA has ever produced war photographs

cliveh · Dec 31, 2011

rrankin said:
Mine is this one by Julia Margaret Cameron. I got a copy of it printed in Camera Works and had it mounted and framed. Seeing a Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition in NYC years ago was what got me back into photography.

Richard

Some years ago I visited her old home at Freshwater on the Isle of White and that same wallpaper was still on the wall. Perhaps she also had some pasted to a board that she used in her converted chicken shed?

Steve Smith · Dec 31, 2011

rrankin said:
Seeing a Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition in NYC years ago was what got me back into photography.

If you lived where I live, you could see a JMC exhibition every day!

cliveh said:
Some years ago I visited her old home at Freshwater on the Isle of White

And that's Wight, not White!!

Steve.

Ian Grant · Dec 31, 2011

My choice as well, and made in the 1960's when I first saw the image in a Photography book by Eric De La Mare which I bought as a teenager while at school.

Ian

Ian

rrankin said:
Mine is this one by Julia Margaret Cameron. I got a copy of it printed in Camera Works and had it mounted and framed. Seeing a Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition in NYC years ago was what got me back into photography.

Richard

Jeff Kubach · Dec 31, 2011

I like any of Ansel Adams pictures.

Jeff

SuzanneR · Dec 31, 2011

I love historic pictures, but my favorite is one my great grandfather made, which I reprinted in the early 80's of my grandmother, her two brothers and their mother, my great grandmother. Did you follow that? I'm not sure I did... anyway, I uploaded it to the gallery here awhile ago.

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

There are lots of others I like, too, but this one has a personal connection.

zsas · Dec 31, 2011

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington DC, Lincoln Memorial, photographed, May 17, 1957, LIFE:Dead Link Removed

Alan Klein · Dec 31, 2011

My favorite and supposedly the most reproduced photo in history. Interestingly it's a cropped version of the original, the second link.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...a.png/1273px-Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima.png cropped and most famous version

http://www.iwojima.com/raising/lflaga2.gif original picture by Joe Rosenthal

Bob Carnie · Dec 31, 2011

Wow this is pretty scary.

I happen to agree that this image is mine as well. When I looked at this thread I did not immediately open because I did not want to be influenced ... but the first image that came to my mind was this exact one.

What is it about this image , as I have her books and she made a lot of images and this one stands out.

Is it possibly that this young woman transcends time???? hmmm.

Ian Grant said:
My choice as well, and made in the 1960's when I first saw the image in a Photography book by Eric De La Mare which I bought as a teenager while at school.

Ian

Ian

dasBlute · Dec 31, 2011

many things by atget... some pictorialist things but

ok, not as famous, or even well crafted, or historically significant,
but one of mine is this image of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it
implies a lot about the modern industrial world, to me at least...

Dinesh · Dec 31, 2011

I have a real affinity for this one:

Ian Grant · Dec 31, 2011

I think your right about it being a timeless image also the simplicity, it's certainly has a remarkable freshness even today 147 years after it was taken.
Ian

Bob Carnie said:
Wow this is pretty scary.

I happen to agree that this image is mine as well. When I looked at this thread I did not immediately open because I did not want to be influenced ... but the first image that came to my mind was this exact one.

What is it about this image , as I have her books and she made a lot of images and this one stands out.

Is it possibly that this young woman transcends time???? hmmm.

cliveh · Dec 31, 2011

Ian Grant said:
I think your right about it being a timeless image also the simplicity, it's certainly has a remarkable freshness even today 147 years after it was taken.
Ian

How true. Batteries not required.

happyjam64 · Dec 31, 2011

MattKing said:
Much better then the one that followed: http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/karsh02.jpg?w=700

I agree about the story - I was fortunate to hear it directly from Karsh himself.

Amazing! I wish I had the fortune to have met him.
One thing I love about his books are the anecdotes. He described Churchill as being "so belligerent, he could've devoured me." How vivid!

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