A photograph is a picture painted on paper that illuminates significant events and memories. As they say, “it is worth a thousand words.” Take a look at these five momentous photos captured in 1960s that literally changed the world.
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Hans Conrad Schumann jumping into West Berlin 1961
Photographer: Peter Leibing
It shows that a 19-year-old East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann leaping over a barbed wire in French Sector of West Berlin during Cold War caught in camera by Peter Leibing, it became one of the iconic pictures around the globe. He escapes and later legalized to travel around to West Germany.
Burning Monk 1963
Photographer: Malcolm Browne
The Pulitzer Prize-winning American photojournalist reported influential news through photograph about a Buddhist Monk who ignites himself on Saigon Street. Thic Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist inflamed himself in a busy intersection, as he sacrificed his life for a noble cause regarding political and religious suppression. The famous photograph recognized as the Photo of the Year in 1963 World Press Award. According to some research studies; although he was re-cremated, his heart had not burned, it was deliberated as “Holy” and enshrined in Xa Loi Pagoda.
Birmingham Riots 1963
Photographer: Charles Moore
The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Charles Moore made a remarkable photo that depicts the struggle regarding to equality. It was shown that young individuals being stricken with a high-pressure water blast from a fire hose in Birmingham, Alabama. He protested by means of his passion which is photography, in contradiction of racial discrimination.
The Corpse of Che Guevara 1967
Photographer: Freddy Alborta
The photograph that kept military theorist Ernesto "Che" Guevara alive has become the patron saint of the Cuban revolutionaries. It was considered as a Christ-like mien that bear a resemblance to an Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna's painting called the Lamentation over the Dead Christ.
Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla 1968
Photographer: Eddie Adams
The Combat photographer Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for capturing image that became debatable and controversial in Vietnam, also worldwide. The execution of Viet Cong Guerrilla in Saigon named Captain Bảy Lốp during Cold War-era in Vietnam as it changed the history, it defined the harsh distinction between military headed by police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan and the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.
Eddie Adams penned in Time Magazine: "The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths."
