Preferably photos from before the new millennium (2000), and either links to the photo(s) or just showing the photo(s) in your post. They don't have to be incredibly famous either.

Favorite (so far):
>V-J Day Kiss
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/VJ_Day_Nurse.jpg
Perhaps a cliché choice, but I'm still open to see what other photos may take its place as my favorite.

Runner-ups:
(the official names of the photos I had trouble looking up...)
>Tank Man
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1090051!/img/httpIm age/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/tiananmenps5n-3-we b.jpg
>Nagasaki Bombing
http://media1.shmoop.com/media/images/large/nagasaki-bomb ing.jpg
>Brit Soldier Hiding From Rain Under Tiger
http://wtmd.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos-pt9-br it-soldier-hiding-from-rain-under-tiger.jpg

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima: http://montney.com/marine/iwo.jpg

Runner-up - Buzz Aldrin on the moon: http://tabpimps.com/uploads/ipad/buzz-aldrin.jpg

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USS Arizona sinking at Pearl Harbour

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"I won’t tell him not to envy, but that man sure is a bag of b*tchery" - Sevens (novel)
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with the raise of rightwing nationalist parties all over europe
this warms my heart
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Reichstag_flag_o riginal.jpg
if the good guys won once
they can do it again


also
i cant find Lewis Carroll nude photos of underage girls on the internets/or his other sexual suggestive photographs of young children...or i am not trying hard enough
but calling out pedophiles that for some reason ART get away with it is allways a good thing
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it is a favorite in that sense that it makes you question a childhood favorite disney/book/whatever

This is what should be done with commies like you.

http://histclo.com/imagef/date/2011/12/ha-wehr01s.jpg

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so much war photos ...
good things also happen ... how about the opening of Berlin Wall 1989
http://s12.postimg.org/qu73tc7jh/Mauerfall_1989.jpg

I know you said you prefer pictures before the millennium and know this one is from 2002, but everyone knows this picture, everyone has seen it without a doubt and to me it's one that has been debated about so many times of being something good, something bad and many more things. It was also one of the very first posters I bought myself

http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/t_article_im age/tgbdxlabnaey9uwnk5p3.jpg

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Good to see some more replies. Thanx everyone.

@TaoPaiPai
Regardless of its background, it really is a pretty sick photo I gotta say.

@-shiratori-
A bit harsh to say to TaoPaiPai, but whether it's a joke or not, whatever...
Ur photo reminds me a bit of: http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Nguyen_Van_Lem_big.j pg

@annebel
Good things do of course happen, but I guess war photos tend to be popular choices for various reasons. The A-bomb's one of my favorites as it captures the image of something we barely ever get to see, could never be photographed unless under special circumstances, and resembles the horror of death + war, while still looking just as incredibly fascinating with the way it forms itself...
Well, that's my short take on it...

@Hekat
2002's "close enough." Please, start saying that I live under a rock, cause I have honestly never seen that photo before, yet Holy Hell (wtf is "Holy Hell...?!) is it a beautiful photo. Care to share its background? I don't know its origin + controversy surrounding it from the time...

History of photography: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography
Camera obscura: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
(The one from the Fatal Frame games.) Gotta love history and it all stared with a horse.
I am way more into painting btw as they capture a timeless nature way more in my eye.
Black and white does look more interring then color photography though.

Why Black and White Photography?: http://huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/maik-lipp_n_4019302.html

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Seriously you never seen that photo before? It's like one of the most famous wallpapers/posters I can think off.
The controversy around it was well simple, two girls who kiss and are very intimate with each other. I know in the region I grew up it was on of the symbols to support Holebi's and because of it, you have people pro and con.

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I'm being honest; I never saw nor heard of it before.
I could tell what the controversy was, but I wanted to know just how controversial it got. Like were a lot of people arguing against each other, as much as that stupid dress debacle, yet it lasted for much longer than only a couple days? [Forget that example, that was terrible...]
I'm curious about whether or not it has its own history going on from the time period...

I like this series of depression era colored photos. From my understanding, these photos were originally in color, though colored photos were rare back then. The colors are so deep and rich.

Airship
Collection

And as an engineer, my favorite bridges and buildings:
George Washington
Brooklyn Bridge
Maillart's Tanavasa in Switzerland
one of Candela's thin shell concrete structure in Mexico

A pile of bodies.

I don't think I've ever been more affected by photographs than those of the holocaust.
Even though I don't consider myself Jewish (I was brought up by secular parents and feel no particular connection to the ethnicity), I can't help but get emotional, if only for the fact that millions of people (and not just Jews), innocent people who did nothing wrong were treated like vermin.

It's not a "favorite", per say, but this photograph and others like it portray the atrocities committed in a way words can't.

Well, that certainly got me depressed.




Never heard of it either, unfortunately.
Maybe it wasn't much of a controversy?

Neither was this (as far as I know), a snog between Brezhnev and some important German dude.

Fairly recent, but a definite favorite of mine - the first lesbian homecoming kiss between a marine and her partner.

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@margaretman2
Some of your links don't work. Maybe it's just my computer, but I'm not really sure.
Do you have the names of the exact images or full link address to look up?

@NightSwan
Yeah, Holocaust photo's will always be some of the most powerful to look at.
I figure that a lot of the photos were taken after the allied troops invaded the camps and took the photos themselves to show everyone back home what the Hell was going on in Nazi Germany all those years. Otherwise, it's truly terrible to imagine that some of these photos were taken before the liberations of the camps, presumably by the Nazis themselves.

On a more positive note to end, haven't seen(/remembered) either of those other two photos you mentioned, but I will say that I found them to be nice and heartwarming. ^____^