Posters or photos of human beings being amazing
June 25, 2021 8:12 PM   Subscribe

Give me your recommendations for posters or photos of amazing feats of humanity.

I have a framed poster of The Catch (Dwight Clark catching an impossible pass from Joe Montana) and I just bought two photos of Tank Man (one a close up and one showing the whole line of tanks).
What are your recommendations for posters that capture amazing, mind blowing human actions? Tank Man is completely and utterly amazing to me.
posted by gt2 to Media & Arts (6 answers total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
lotta options for this

this photo by astronaut michael collins is notable in that it doesn't show him. every other human being who ever lived or died is in the frame.

maybe more later. curious to see other suggestions.
posted by j_curiouser at 8:38 PM on June 25, 2021 [7 favorites]








Zatopek wins Marathon [after 5k and 10k] Helsinki 1952.
posted by BobTheScientist at 9:55 PM on June 25, 2021 [1 favorite]


I don't cry easily, but this viral photograph reliably makes me tear-up. The photograph shows owner John Unger and his elderly, arthritic dog named Schoep.
The original image, captured by photographer Hannah Stonehouse Hudson, featured the dog and his owner, John Unger, sharing a peaceful moment in Lake Superior. As the Pioneer Press reports, Unger, of Bayfield, Wisc., began taking his then 19-year-old pet into the water to help soothe the dog’s joint pain from arthritis. The buoyancy of the water, he found, helped lull Schoep to sleep. Unger’s friend Hudson, who wanted to capture the pair’s relationship, snapped the now-famous photo one evening
posted by alex1965 at 4:51 AM on June 26, 2021 [6 favorites]


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