I found this short 9-minute film on You Tube, featuring a random selection of historical photographs. Despite the title ‘unseen’, I have seen three of them previously, but not the rest. It also has a warning at the beginning, but I assure you that none of the photos are too disturbing, if at all.
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Thank you, Pete. Everyone should see these photos.
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I am happy that they are preserved on You Tube, Jennie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Me, too!
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Some of the most moving photographs that I have ever seen.
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I am very glad that you think so, Michele.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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(1) I’ve seen the mestiza de sangley photo online many times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangley
(2) John Smith, the Ojibwe Indian, reminds me of Jimmy Durante. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(Chippewa_Indian)
(3) I’d like to know where the Nevada railroad photo was taken.
(4) The skeletons engaged in the “longest kiss” reminds me of the final scene in “Notre-Dame de Paris,” which I’ve read twice in the original French.
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(2) I think he might have had some form of Neurofibromatosis.
Best wishes, Pete.
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During the War my mother worked for Life Magazine in the photo department. I grew up with Life coming every week giving me a chance to really absorb photos. I miss the opportunity that it and Look Magazine provided for serious photographers to have an outlet for their work. So much of that skill is shown in these photos.
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Speaking of Life Magazine, the scarred Hiroshima survivor reminded me of a photograph showing a woman bathing her son, who had severe birth defects from her exposure to radiation.
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Life Magazine did indeed publish so many landmark photos.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I found these pictures amazing.
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I am so pleased you did, Molly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I love these. I find particularly poignant images of soldiers caring for birds or animals. Also the German soldier helping the child at the wall. I have been reading books framed around the wall, coincidentally.
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I went to the Berlin Wall when it was still active. I saw it from the East, then crossed over to West Berlin by tube train for the afternoon. 🙂
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Good one Pete, very interesting.
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Glad you liked it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have seen several of them also, but disturbing is in the context rather than the photo itself, Warmest regards, Ed
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Thanks, Ed.
Best wishes, Pete.
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So many aspects of humanity in one set of pictures. Liked the quote at the end.
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It was well-compiled, I agree.
Thanks, Helen.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Great photos. I found that Indian chief’s face most fascinating.
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It was certainly full of character.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I could believe he was 130!
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Me too! 🙂
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That was all an eye opener
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I liked the human touch in most of them.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Great collection…..chuq
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Glad you enjoyed them, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
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