At present, photography seems to have become banal.Far away are those times when people posed would be serious in photos because they considered it a transcendent act.However, throughout history there are and there will be photographs which are unpayable documents of some events or people who, for better or worse, have shocked the world.Join us to discover 5 impressive photos taken at the last moment.
5 impressive and impressive photos
All of these photos contain a shocking story in the picture.
September 11, 2001-Twin Towers-New York
Bill Biggart was a Press photographer who was covering the events of September 11, 2001 and perished at the fall of the second tower.Unlike many other bodies of victims of the attacks that were never found, Bill Biggart was recovered between the rubble four days after the event.next to the corpse, his cameras and other personal effects appeared that were given to the widow.Everything was so battered that the wife thought that there was nothing that could be saved and much less any photograph of that Her husband had done the day, but he also gave the photographic material to a partner of her husband, also photographed.Among the cameras there was a digital one and the friend focused on it, even though it was covered with ashes and the lens damaged.inside it found intact a memory card with 150 photographs. Among them the one you can see here, which was taken at 10:28 am, 2 minutes before the second tower fell.
This video is a tribute to the photographer.
August 31, 1997-Diana of Wales-Paris
Diana of Wales passed away on August 31, 1997 tas a car accident in the tunnel of the Soul of Paris.This photograph is the last image taken of the ill-fated princess seconds before the accident.Only Diana's hair is seen looking out the back window.
Diana, along with Dodi Al-Fayed, the escort of this Trevor Rees-Jopnes and the driver, Henri Paul, fled from the paparazzi and entered the underground passage at a speed of 105 km per hour.They hit a column of the Bridge and in the accident Dodi Al Fayed and Henri Paul died immediately.Trevor Rees-Jones and Diana survived, but she died soon after in the hospital.Unfortunately, the paparazzi continued to take photos of the tragedy.g>
December 26, 2004-Tsunami in Thailand
John and Jackie Knill were a Canadian couple who were spending a few days on vacation in Thailand when they were surprised by the The most devastating tsunami of which there is news.The gigantic waves were the result of an earthquake known to scientists as the "Sumatra-Andaman earthquake" that reached 9'3 degrees on the Richter scale, which made it the second earthquake of greater intensity since the seismographs exist.In that successful event, almost 300,000 people died and millions were affected.
The bodies of John and Jackie were found on the Thai coast 20 days after the tsunami.A few weeks later an American from Seattle who worked as Volunteer in the area found a battered camera that threw the rubble because it was completely damaged, however, he removed the memory card from the camera and when he had the vision, discovering images of the Knill during his vacation. However, the most impressive and impressive photos are the latest; they pick up a great wave that comes closer and closer to the shore.
The volunteer searched and found the relatives of the Knill and traveled to Vancouver to deliver the memory card.In this link you can see more photographs of the wave taken by the couple.
Last photo of Adolf Hitler-April 1945-Berlin
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945.In the case of Eva Braun, he wrote his last wishes and together they entered his living room in the bunker where they took their lives.Cyanide capsule and shot itself in the head.So one of the greatest murderers in history died.
This photograph was taken two days before at the bunker door when he went to inspect the damage caused by the bombs and it is believed that is the last one taken to the dictator.
Last photo of Anne Frank-In mid-1942
Ana Frank, her family and her companions erro they hid in the flat that was to be their dwelling for almost two years in the month of July 1942. His sister Margot received the notice that he had to appear to be deported to Germany in order to "Relocate it" in a work camp.After this notification the whole Frank family decided to hide in the hiding place they had prepared.
The last of these awesome photos was taken in early or mid-1942 and it is believed that the last image of Ana and her sister Margot .The family was arrested the morning of August 4, 1944 and deported as criminals.Both sisters died in March 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when they contracted the typhus that killed 17,000 prisoners.The camp was released by British troops a few weeks A few years later, in April 1945, Frank's family only survived the father, Otto, who was in charge of publishing his daughter's diary.
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