What are the best, most inspiring pictures of all time?
My submission is maybe the most obvious, Soviet flag over the Reichstag
It can be anything, photograph, painting, meme, screenshot of CCTV footage of a CEO getting domed in the street, etc
Remember when burning a police precinct had a higher approval rating than any of the presidential candidates?
Pepridge Farms remembers
THAT'S THE ONE
This doesn't make top 10, but maybe it makes top 100? Marina Ginestà on top of the Hotel Colón, socialist fighter in the spanish civil war.
Oh, and this one, back from 7th October of 2023:
This was reported for "celebrating terrorism" so i banned the reporter.
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I do love this one
I always love how reactionaries point to in this photo the one ussr officer has two watches, because he obviously stole them off a german troop (who were good and heavenly little angel babies following orders).
As opposed to GI Joe, who only took Japanese skulls as souvenirs
We don't know for sure but it was likely a wrist mounted compass which were popular in the Red Army.
Not a photograph, but this really has to be up there
It is so powerful that it even has an equal and opposite reaction
I adore this painting.
Just a buncha queers hanging out over a century ago and I think that's pretty cool
superior version of Teddy Roosevelt over there in the right corner
ARBYS HAS FALLEN
Hard to pick a specific favorite, but photos of Marsha P. Johnson candid just being happy always make me feel happy
nothing warms my little t girl heart more than to see a trans woman simply existing unbothered
interesting
Big boop palls
Bank of America on Fire (1970) | Credit: Courtesy KCSB.org
The First Nations dude staring down the little canadien troop. The Chileans in the street sitting on couch drinking beer in front of a burning building during the student protests.
this one, right?
100%
Forgot about this one. This goes so hard
I took the picture... in Nicaragua, which had been ruled by the Somoza family since before World War II. The FSLN, popularly known as the Sandinistas, had opposed that regime since the early Sixties. ... I made the image in question on July 16, 1979, the eve of the day that Somoza would flee Nicaragua forever. What is happening is anything but a "riot". In fact, the man is throwing his bomb at a Somoza national guard garrison, one of the last such garrisons remaining in Somoza's hands. It was an important moment in the history of Nicaragua—the Sandinistas would soon take power and hold that power for another decade—and this image ended up representing that moment for a long time to come
Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi [CW: gore]
maybe not so much inspiring but an amazing picture none the less
What is the context of this picture? I've seen it around and it's hilarious but I have no idea what's going on in it. Is Hillary visiting somebody's house as a photo op?
So it was during her 2016 run i think. She went to some normal persons place in NYC and i guess she is so out of touch shes never seen a normal NYC apartment before, and her rich person brain short circuited.
Not the best and most inspiring but still a very hard picture
Konstantin Yuon (1875-1958). The new planet. Tempera. 1921.
Palestinian freedom fighter with a slingshot
The second is absolutely iconic, the look on his face and the way his musculature is shown always reminds me slightly of Michelangelo's David.