/r/IconicImages
Welcome to /r/IconicImages! This is the place for those pictures and images that evoke powerful and emotional feelings as well as tell a story.
Photos can capture unspeakable pain of war, death and murder or the thrill of victory and jubilation of peace and tranquility as well as the harsh realities of life people all over the world experience
As such content could be considered NSFW as images submitted could include depictions of death.
Welcome to /r/IconicImages! This is the place for those pictures and images that evoke powerful and emotional feelings as well as tell a story.
Photos can capture unspeakable pain of war, death and murder or the thrill of victory and jubilation of peace and tranquility as well as the harsh realities of life people all over the world experience
As such content could be considered NSFW as images submitted could include depictions of death.
If you submit something you feel may be NSFW please tag it as such by putting NSFW in the title.
Please feel free to contribute those powerful and iconic photos and images youve seen that stay with you; whether it puts a smile on your face, makes you think or even disturbs and horrifies you.
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A Polish barrier on the border is chopped to pieces by German soldiers. Sępólno Krajeńskie (Poland), 1 September 1939.
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The first General Assembly of the United Nations
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Queen Elizabeth greets then-Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle on Sept. 6, 2022. PHOTO: JANE BARLOW - WPA POOL/GETTY
Last image of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Happy Cakeday, r/IconicImages! Today you're 9
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 1 posts:
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Happy Cakeday, r/IconicImages! Today you're 8
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 4 posts:
- "The remains of the space shuttle Columbia falling from orbit" by u/ufo5678
- "Happy Cakeday, r/IconicImages! Today you're 7" by u/AutoModerator
- "Musical Mug Shots" by u/JuliaSeth
- "'Cotton Mill Worker' This photo of a girl of 12 or 13 who worked at a cotton mill in North Carolina was taken by Lewis Hine. Hine's pictures were instrumental in the passage of laws restricting child labor in the U.S.A. Lewis Hine/J. Paul Getty Museum" by u/JuliaSeth
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The remains of the space shuttle Columbia falling from orbit
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Happy Cakeday, r/IconicImages! Today you're 7
Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 10 posts:
- "Artist David Wojnarowicz at a AID Awarness rally, 1988." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "A Northern Irish student prepares to strikes at a team of B Specials with a 2X4 during the Battle of the Bogside. Derry, Northern Ireland. Photo by Don McCullin." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "President Obama holding 3 year old Arianna Holmes in the Oval Office. Feb. 1, 2012. Photo by Lawrence Jackson." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "Faces of the Vietnam war draft" by u/StupidSamWasTaken
- "Japanese radical socalist Inejiro Asanuma moments before his assasination by ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised debate in Tokyo. October 12, 1960. Photo by Yasushi Nagao (who won the Pulitzer Prize for it.)" by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "A Romanian anti-communist resistance rushing into position during The Christmas Revolution. 1989." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "Samir, The Iraqi-American military interpreter for Operation Red Dawn poses with a recently captured Saddam Hussain in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Decemeber 13th, 2003." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "A couple kisses in front of the Brandenburg Gate section of the Berlin Wall during its final days as a physical border between East & West Berlin. November, 1989." by u/TheSouthernMyth
- "Air Force One flies past Mandalay Bay days after the Las Vegas massacre" by u/GlenDice
- "Iraqi police standing near a burning oil pipeline, Kerbala, 2004." by u/TheSouthernMyth
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Patty Hearst posing with gun in front of the SLA flag
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(Not sure if this has been posted yet) Serial killer Christopher Wilder watches Seventeen magazine pageant winner Michelle Korfman (seen in the foreground holding flowers) shortly before he abducted, raped, and murdered her
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Faces of the Vietnam war draft
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bliss (1996)
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A cowboy from the Dakota Territory. 1888.
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A couple kisses in front of the Brandenburg Gate section of the Berlin Wall during its final days as a physical border between East & West Berlin. November, 1989.
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Shellshocked Marine during The Battle of Huế, Vietnam, 1968. Photo by Don McCullin.
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Air Force One flies past Mandalay Bay days after the Las Vegas massacre
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A skull stuck between a tree inside a U.S Army encampment. Vietnam, 1968. Photo by Terry Fincher.
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The Chicago Cubs moments after winning the 2016 World Series. Ending the longest championship drought (107 Years) in North American sports history.
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A Northern Irish student prepares to strikes at a team of B Specials with a 2X4 during the Battle of the Bogside. Derry, Northern Ireland. Photo by Don McCullin.
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A Romanian anti-communist resistance rushing into position during The Christmas Revolution. 1989.
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President Obama holding 3 year old Arianna Holmes in the Oval Office. Feb. 1, 2012. Photo by Lawrence Jackson.
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Artist David Wojnarowicz at a AID Awarness rally, 1988.
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Punk’s not dead!
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The 9/11 Boatlifts - After the bridges and subways are shut down, civilian and Coast Guard vessels evacuate half a million people from the island of Manhattan.
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Samir, The Iraqi-American military interpreter for Operation Red Dawn poses with a recently captured Saddam Hussain in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Decemeber 13th, 2003.
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A Turkish resistance fighter runs towards the fighting during the Cyprus civil war. Photo by Don McCullin, 1964.
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Yippie protesters mount the John Logan Memorial in Chicago's Grant Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Photo by Julian Wasser.
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Japanese radical socalist Inejiro Asanuma moments before his assasination by ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised debate in Tokyo. October 12, 1960. Photo by Yasushi Nagao (who won the Pulitzer Prize for it.)
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Iraqi police standing near a burning oil pipeline, Kerbala, 2004.
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John Bercow's last session as Speaker of the House of Commons, 4 November 2019.
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Hong Kong Student preparing to fire a fuel soaked arrow at police during the Novemeber Siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic.
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