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Re: Great Pictures~

 

The first four are random pics from darfur and the white man talking with the japanese goverment is jack london a journalist/photgrapher who was covering the Russo-Japanese War

and got arrested and put in jail for taking pictures were he shouldntv but then got soon realesed.

The picture below-Before World War II, this photo emerged from Japan — Emperor Hirohito inspecting a fleet of giant tubas, with anti-aircraft guns in the background.

They're actually acoustic locators, designed to listen for plane engines. Radar made the whole project obsolete...I cant find the one underneath that one,and im pretty sure the last one is photshopped.

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Kevin Carter, who took the picture, was heavily criticized for not helping the child.

 

From Times Article:

Carter was feted at some of the most fashionable spots in New York City. Restaurant patrons, overhearing his claim to fame, would come up and ask for his autograph. Photo editors at the major magazines wanted to meet the new hotshot, dressed in his black jeans and T shirts, with the tribal bracelets and diamond-stud earring, with the war-weary eyes and tales from the front lines of Nelson Mandela's new South Africa. Carter signed with Sygma, a prestigious picture agency representing 200 of the world's best photojournalists. "It can be a very glamorous business," says Sygma's U.S. director, Eliane Laffont. "It's very hard to make it, but Kevin is one of the few who really broke through. The pretty girls were falling for him, and everybody wanted to hear what he had to say."

 

... sounds pretty terrible.

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