"Good photos are like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good."
Photographs evoke a thousand feelings without any effort of describing them. Perhaps that’s why the most thoughtful pictures always come with a minimalist caption.
Below is a curated list of pictures which changed the course of the world through a silent revolution of their own.
All this and not a word said!
1. Pearl Harbour
Source: abc
The moment where the world woke up to the destructive potential of mankind.
2. V-J Day
Source: democracyunderground
V-J day depicts a spontaneous event of a sailor kissing a woman after the announcement of an end of war with Japan.
Love wins over war any day!
3. Horace Greasely
Source: Ruthfully yours
Love not only makes a poet of an ordinry soul, but a hero too. A PoW in World War 2 he escaped more than 200 times for his lady love, only to get back into captivity.
4. Einstein
Source; Imgkid
The photo which gave geniuses all over the world a license to show their humorous side!
5. Hindenburg
Source: The atlantic
It used flammable hydrogen for lift, which incinerated the airship in a massive fireball. And fireballs burn with a sky high flame. Unfortunately, it became a firework which would always go down notoriously in history.
6. Sudanese Soldier
Source: Pilot Africa
The proud face of a soldier etched with the realization of numerous sacrifices it took for the new found independence of his nation.
7. Family Matters
Source: AOL
Politics divide, blood unites.
South Korean man sheds a tear when parting ways with his North Korean relative. The reunIon came after years as several people crossed the world's most heavily fortified barriers to meet their kin.
War – 0. Humanity -1
9. A baby caught between lands
Source: Worldsfamousphotos
Even babies need legal document to prove their existence. It's a sad, dystopian world.
10. The Beginning of Life
Source: Worldsfamousphotos
One of the first pictures taken with the endoscope. It shows a foetus in a pregnant woman.
The picture is considered to be the symbol of humanity.
11. Delhi Rape Protest
Source:The Hindu
A gruesome gang rape shocked India into a massive impromptu protest without any leader all over the country. India transformed in that moment. People reclaimed their right to live.
12. Indian Homesexual Wedding
Source: Buzzfeed
Considering the reductive laws in India regarding Homosexuality, this celebration of love was a refreshing and heart-warming change which India and the world over witnessed with pleasure.
13. People showing solidarity in Egypt
Source; The Daily Mail
Humanity first, Religion later.
Christians and Muslims showing solidarity and protesting hand in hand in Cairo, Egypt in 2011.
14. Self Immolation
Source; akrockfeller
Self Immolation is a form of protesting by setting yourself on fire. Innumerable Tibetans have self-immolated for their demand of 'Free Tibet' which is currently usurped By People's Republic Of China.
15. Enemies Later, It's time For Tea
Source: Photo journal
What time is tea time?
An Afghani offering a tired soldier a drink.
16. Forever is a possibilty
Source: Unusual places
A Protestant and Catholic couple whose unending love overcame man made barriers.
17. Marilyn Monroe
Source: ioffer
She made sexy classy.. Enough said.
18. Russian Soldier Playing Piano
Source: imgur
A Russian soldier playing a piano in an abandoned area.
Music is a great companion. This picture only reiterates it.
19. Starvation isn't Racist, Humans are.
Source: Cogtography
Not enough words for this one.
20. Barack Obama checking out a Brazilian
Source: smh
So what he is probably the most powerful man on the planet and a husband to a feisty woman?
He is a man He will check out.
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