Image #1:
1. I picked this image because it shows a man who truly has no fear. He's standing in front of four high-grade military tanks.
2. It was the day after the Tiananmen Square massacre and tanks were brought into the area. This man was apparently tired of all the meaningless killing so he decided to put himself in harm's way in order to stop the mechanical beasts. The tanks tried to move around him a couple times but he continued to step in their way, he wouldn't budge.
3.I learned that the chinese military was ordered to shoot down hundreds of innocent protesters at the massacre the night before this photo was taken. The event was almost completely hidden from the Chinese population shortly after it happened. Although the government went to great measures to mask the event, this famous image never died.
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5. The photographer's name is Jeff Widener.
Born in 1956 and is still alive.
Born in Long Beach California.
Studied at Los Angeles Pierce College and Moorpark College.
Image #2:
1. I picked this image because it looked strangely like Nike's Jordan logo.
2. During a magazine shoot for LIFE in 1984, this photo of Michael Jordan was taken mid-jump. The photo was later borrowed by Nike in order to design their, now famous, Jordan logo.
3, I learned that Nike didn't actually tell the photographer they were using his photograph for their logo, he attempted to sue them but settled for $15.000.
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5. The photographer's name is Jacobus "Co" Rentmeester.
He was born in 1936 and is still alive today.
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Studied at Art Center College in Los Angeles.
Image #3:
1. I picked this image because this man is seemingly content while covered in flames.
2. This Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, set himself ablaze in 1963 in order to protest the president's treatment of monks at the time. He sat, legs crossed, completely still the entire time: this demonstrate's the enormous mental willpower of monks.
3. I learned that the new president strongly supported Catholicism and made the Buddhist flag illegal shortly before this event. He passed laws discriminating Buddhists and didn't support their freedom of religion at all.
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5. The photographer's name is Malcolm Browne
Born in 1931 and Died in 2012.
Born in New York City.
Studied at Swarthmore College.
Image #4:
1. I picked this image because it shows a gorilla being carried out on a stretcher, seemingly dead.
2. Criminals had illegally entered this forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007 in order to harvest wood for the making of illegal charcoal, a huge industry during the Rwandan genocide. Wanting to revolt against the park rangers, the intruders shot multiple gorillas for no apparent reason, including this alpha male which weighed at least 500 pounds.
3. I learned that rangers had an ongoing conflict with the charcoal producers, destroying their kilns and raiding their hotspots in order to discourage the production of the product. Many rangers were also killed while trying to protect the forest's gorillas.
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5. The photographer's name was Brent Stirton.
Born in 1969 and is still alive today.
Born in Durban, South Africa.
Image #5:
1. I chose this image because it symbolizes one of our world's biggest mysteries: the Loch Ness Monster.
2. This photo was originally thought to be taken by Robert Wilson, but that information has been proven to be uncredible. Now, many photographers have taken credit for this famous image, but the original person is still unknown.
3. I learned that this image has inspired thousands, even millions, of conspiracy theories, from ones involving the government all the way to aliens.
4. Unapplicable.
5. Photographer unknown.
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