1000 words behind the photo
Behind the camera: AP Photographer Where: White House lawn Washington D.C. America Photo Summary: Nixon giving his famous V sign before he boards the Presidential helicopter, Army One (Until 1976 Marine Corps shared the responsibility of helicopter transport with the Army). Picture Taken: August 9, 1974 Well, when the President does it, that means that […]
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: 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: Robert Capa Where: It was for decades thought that the shot was taken at Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front. However new research has determined that the photo was taken 30 miles (50 km) away, near Espejo, a Cordoban town Photo Summary: A Spanish Republican (Loyalist) soldier supposedly the moment he is […]
Behind the camera: Steve McCurry Where: Nasir Bagh refugee camp just outside Afghanistan on the Pakistan border Photo Summary: Sharbat Gula looking at the camera Picture Taken: Steve states that he meet her two years before the 1985 cover but then in 2003 says that he took the picture in 1984 Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت […]
Behind the camera: Ken Jarecke Where: A lone truck on a highway heading south to Kuwait from Southern Iraq Photo Summary: (the corpse) … had been burned alive … I don’t know who he was or what he did. I don’t know if he was a good man, a family man or a bad guy […]
Behind the camera: Alfred Eisenstaedt although Lt Victor Jorgensen took a similar image Where: Times Square, New York City, USA Photo Summary: Many claims to be the Nurse and Sailor shown in the picture. Former nurses Edith Cullen Shain and Greta Friedman are the most likely Nurses and George Mendonça and Carl Muscarello are the […]
Behind the camera: Robert Capa Where: ‘Easy Red’ beach on the American Omaha beach of Normandy Photo Summary: Edward Regan or Huston “Hu” Riley lying in the surf while trying to make it to Normany’s ‘Easy Red’ beach Picture Taken: June 6, 1944 (D-Day) Es una cosa muy seria (This is a very serious business) […]
Behind the camera: J. Howard Miller Where: Miller’s Studio Photo Summary: A poster put out by the US government to encourage women to head out into the workforce Picture Taken: 1943 This image is in the public domain because it was taken by a federal employee, J. Howard Miller While other girls attend their fav’rite […]
Behind the camera: H.S. ‘Newsreel’ Wong, also known as Wong Hai-Sheng or Wang Xiaoting. News footage was taken with Eyemo newsreel camera, this photograph was taken with his Leica camera. Where: Platform of the Shanghai South Railway Station Photo Summary: A crying baby sitting in the ruins of a bombed out train station Picture Taken: […]