MahlerIsGod

I wasn't sure were to put this but thread but the photograph thread seemed to be for peoples own photos. I have to do a presentation on the history of photography for a class in the coming weeks and I would like to have a slideshow going on the background while I talk. I am asking you guys and gals what you think are the most important photographs ever taken (please No Porn!) Please post them or link them and say why you think they are important. Your help would be greatly, Greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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"But a work of art is a conscious human effort that has to do with communication. It is that or its nothing. When an accident is applauded as a work of art, when a cult grows up around the deliciousness of inadvertent beauty, we are in the presence of the greatest decadence the West has known in its history."

bundy

well, in terms of photojournalism you cannot go past this masterpiece...



its The Loyalist (shot during the Spanish Civil War), by Robert Capa... who is regarded along with Henri Cartier-Bresson as the fathers of modern photojournalism.

they started Magnum, with David ´Chim´ Seymour and George Rodger.

as for the real history of straight photography, well i´m not much of a help, sorry.

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