1000 words behind the photo
Behind the camera: Yasushi Nagao Where: Stage of Hibiya Hall, Tokyo, Japan Photo Summary: Otoya Yamaguchi thrusting his sword into Socialist party leader, Inejiro Asanuma Picture Taken: October 12, 1960 1960 saw great political turmoil in Japan as the ruling party, the LDP, tried to pass the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the […]
Behind the camera: Kevin Carter Where: Ayod, Sudan (Now South Sudan) Photo Summary: Young Sudanese girl crawling to the food station Picture Taken: March 1993 In March of 1993 the combination of civil war, drought had created famine conditions throughout Southern Sudan. Reporting on the starving people Kevin Carter and other journalists flew into Ayod, […]
Behind the camera: Lester LaRue and Charles Porter took almost the same picture Where: Outside the wreckage of the bombed out Alfred P. Murrah Federal government Building, Oklahoma, USA Photo Summary: Oklahoma City fire Capt. Chris Fields holding Baylee Almon Picture Taken: April 19, 1995 At 9:02, on April 19, 1995, Gulf War vet, Timothy […]
Behind the camera: Max Desfor Where: A bridge on the Taedong River that runs through the city of Pyongyang, North Korea Photo Summary: Labelled Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea the image shows refugees fleeing the North Koreans over a bridge on the Taedong River Picture Taken: December 4, 1950 Late 1950 in […]
Behind the camera: Slava ‘Sal’ Veder Where: Travis Air Force Base, in California Photo Summary: The Stirm family running to their father, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm. In the lead is 15 year old Lorrie followed by Robert Jr., Cindy, Roger and wife Loretta. Picture Taken: March 17, 1973 With the signing of the Paris […]
Behind the camera: Associated Press photographer Nick Út (Also known as Huynh Cong Út), ITN news crew including Christopher Wain and cameraman great Alan Downes. Also there was NBC cameraman Le Phuc Dinh who filmed Kim running towards the reporters. Where: On the Vietnamese highway (Route 1) that leads from Saigon towards the Cambodian border […]
Behind the camera: Student photographer John Filo Where: Kent University Photo Summary: Mary Vecchio screaming as she crouched over the bleeding body of Jeffrey Miller Picture Taken: May 4, 1970 Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’. We’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drummin’. Four dead in Ohio. “Ohio” song by the folk […]
Behind the camera: AP photographer Joe Rosenthal and cinematographer Staff Sgt. Bill Genaust Where: Mount Suribachi on the small island of Iwo Jima Photo Summary: Marines raise a second flag over the Volcanic Mount Suribachi on the small island of Iwo Jima, Japan Picture Taken: The stars and stripes was raised on Suribachi’s summit at […]
Behind the camera: Hector Rondon Where: Puerto Cabello, Venezuela during the El Porteñazo uprising Photo Summary: Navy chaplain Luis Padillo holding a wounded soldier as sniper bullets hit the ground around him Picture Taken: June 4, 1962 Hector Rondon was covering the short lived El Porteñazo uprising that took place in June 1962. Lasting for […]