Famous Photography and Stuff.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page. 

The Beatles crossing Abbey Road. Apple Records creative director John Kosh designed the album cover. Taken on 8 August 1969 outside EMI Studios on Abbey Road. At 11:35 that morning, photographer Iain Macmillan was given only ten minutes to take the photo while he stood on a step-ladder and a policeman held up traffic behind the camera. It is the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to show neither the artist name nor the album title on its front cover. 🚶🎼🚶‍♂️

People Power Revolution. A series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines, mostly in Manila, from February 22 to 25, 1986. A sustained campaign of civil resistance against regime violence and electoral fraud. The essentially nonviolent revolution led to the departure of Ferdinand Marcos, the end of his 20-year dictatorship. Weeks prior, we journalists somehow knew what’d go down. Still, it was a “peaceful” mass uprising. (Photo credit: NationStates.) ☮️🇵🇭☮️

First Man on the Moon. Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969). Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Mr Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Photo: Neil Armstrong  working at the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle." Mr Aldrin was tasked with taking a series of panoramic photos, including this. 📷📸📸

Six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima (Japan) in the final stages of the Pacific War. The photograph was taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945. The photograph has come to be regarded as one of the most recognizable images of World War II. The flag raising occurred in the early afternoon, after the mountaintop was captured and a smaller flag was raised on top that morning. 

       Three of the six Marines in the photograph—Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley—would be killed in action during the battle; Block was identified as Sergeant Hank Hansen until January 1947 and Sousley was identified as PhM2c. John Bradley, USN, until June 2016. The other three Marines in the photograph were Corporals (then Privates First Class) Ira Hayes, Harold Schultz, and Harold Keller; Schultz was identified as Sousley until June 2016 and Keller was identified as Rene Gagnon until October 2019. All of the men served in the 5th Marine Division on Iwo Jima. 📷📸📸

Loch Ness. In the 65 years since the birth of the modern legend, many have come forward with photographs of the monster. All frauds. But the photo, published in the London Daily Mail, and taken in 1934 by physician R. Kenneth Wilson stood out. Mr Wilson said he had taken the picture when he noticed a commotion in the water as he was driving up from London to Inverness. Sixty years later in 1994, several reports claimed the “surgeon’s photo” was a fake. 📷📸📸