Iconic Images

What era/incident is this?

Oooh. That's hard. Los Angeles riots in early '90s ? The Rodney King thing ..

Seattle ?

Auditor #9 wrote:

Seattle ?

Era. Incident.

The WTO meeting which had to be abandoned due to the level of public protest - Seattle 1999?

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

Seattle ?

Era. Incident.

There was a mad rush on that year (1999) for the release of the new Windows '98 !

Atticus wrote:

The WTO meeting which had to be abandoned due to the level public protest - Seattle 1999?

Aye that's the one. I thought it was earlier though.

Um, Chicago 1968?

Dunno, not that good with horses in dim smoky surroundings!!

I presume the smoke is from a police crowd dispersal measure. If not it is going to be from a city with a Subway system, like New York.

Czech Republic, today - riot police breaking up an attempt by the far-right Workers' Party to reach a Roma area. This goes with it:



I thought the original image is curiously beautiful. In some senses it could have come from any era - those helmets could be Scots Borderers from the 1600's, and the batons lances, and you'd have seen that image in the smoke of a raided Border town.

Sh...iucra. Do you have a link to an article on that?

Every year, I attend the World Press photographer exhibition - it's usually in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank. I have enormous respect for all the photographers.

This was the 2006 winner - photo taken in the Lebanon during the Israeli ...incursion? invasion .....

http://www.lensculture.com/wpp_2007.html

... and yes, your comment re the Scots Borderers in the 1600s is so true ...

Have you seen any of Sebastiao Salgado's photos?

Atticus wrote:

... and yes, your comment re the Scots Borderers in the 1600s is so true ...

Have you seen any of Sebastiao Salgado's photos?

I have now! Thanks!

ibis wrote:

Czech Republic, today - riot police breaking up an attempt by the far-right Workers' Party to reach a Roma area. This goes with it:



I thought the original image is curiously beautiful. In some senses it could have come from any era - those helmets could be Scots Borderers from the 1600's, and the batons lances, and you'd have seen that image in the smoke of a raided Border town.

When I was in Prague earlier this year I made a little pilgrimage to the Orthodox Church where the Czech paratroopers who assassinated Heydrich hid and were found by the Germans. They fought there for ages to the last man, taking as many Germans with them as possible, before, when the last two men were out of ammunition, they turned the guns on each other. It choked me up a little to stand on the street outside where the Germans had hundreds of troops firing on the building 65 years before.

It is shaming that such scum dishonour the bravery of those men like this.

seconded, toxic.

the first picture looks like the opening scene from gladiator with roman cavalry moving through the woods to attack the germanic hordes from behind!