"A picture is worth a thousand words".

- Listening with eyes -


This post aims to show the reality of the last years of history. Makes a tour historical images from
the year 1956 until 2011.

I hope it serves to raise awareness about the world we live. The images captured by
photographers were edited by me.



These are some of the most important images of the past 50 years.

Have been awarded the "World Press Photo" and you can see that many times the theme is repeated.

Wars, famine, abuse of authority, violence, misery, dehumanization...

Photographers ... witnesses of the bullshit that we have become.



WARNING:

SOME IMAGES MAY AFFECT SENSITIVITY.

The most painful pictures are hidden. Seeing them is your decision, so I ask you not to report the post. It is not intended to sensationalize.









A prisoner of war in World War II was reunited with his daughter, who had not seen for a year. The prisoner was liberated by Soviet troops after the completion of the conflagration.








In the middle stage of segregation of secondary schools in the United States, Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students Harry Harding in the south, receives ridicule from their white peers, stoically.








A student with fascist ideals, killing Inejiro Asamura, Japanese Communist Party leader, during a speech. Hisatake Abo, the director of photography Nagao, had sent him to cover the political debate Hibiya Hall. Nagao won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and the World Press Photo prize in 1960.








Catholic priest Father Luis Padillo, gives last rites to a soldier mortally wounded during the military rebellion against President Betancourt, at the naval base of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.








Photo historical and classical. The Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself on fire to protest against religious persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam government.








A Turkish woman mourns her husband, one of the fatalities in civil war between Greece and Turkey.
A quote from Don McCullin: "And I'm tired of guilt, tired of saying, 'I did not kill that man in that photograph, I did not kill that child hunger´. So look for landscapes and flowers in the picture. I am condemning myself to peace".








During the Vietnam War, a wife and children are fleeing the bombing by the United States on their village. The Americans believed that the village was a Viet Cong camp. Without proof and without being sure, attacked the village.








The body of a Viet Cong soldier is dragged along the ground by an army tank in the United States. Later, he would be buried in a mass grave.








The tank commander of the Seventh Regiment of United States military looks through the peephole of his vehicle, in the middle of the Iron Triangle of Vietnam.








Another classic photograph and history: the police chief of South Vietnam, Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a suspected member of the Vietcong forces.








A young Irish Catholic, escapes with a gas mask, after a clash with British troops during the conflict in Northern Ireland (also known in English as The Troubles or Problems). Those episodes faced on the one hand, the "unionists" in Northern Ireland (a Protestant, the majority in the region) who believe in preserving ties with Great Britain and on the other side to the "Irish Republican" generally Catholic religion and demographically minority pro-independence.








In Germany, the police chief Gross shoots the leader of a gang of thieves who had robbed a bank near the city of Cologne. We can see how the cops escape the bullets of thieves.








Photo seen many times, but it is still surprising.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc, in the center and who later became a celebrity in this picture, along with other children fleeing Vietnamese aircraft of their own country, who downloaded napalm on civilians and military alike, accidentally.


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Chilean President Salvador Allende outside the presidential palace escorted by his bodyguard, after the coup led by Pinochet, overthrew the governmen. Moments later, he would be dead and still being discussed whether he was murdered by the military coup, or if it was a suicide (version supported by the coup leaders themselves, among other things, were the only ones to have power of entry to the scene crime).








A mother comforts her daughter, both victims of famine and drought in Africa.








A woman and her young daughter, they end up falling on the emergency stairs of a building in the city of Boston, United States, trying to escape a fire.








Palestinian refugees walk in the French district of La Quarantaine.








A group of peaceful protestors in Modderdam camp in Cape Town, are violently dispersed by tear gas fired by police, while claiming that their homes are not demolished.








A Protestant is wrapped in flames because of a Molotov cocktail aimed at the police. The police suppressed a demonstration against the construction of the Tokyo International Airport. The protest arose because the Japanese government expelled people from their land to build the airport. The conflict ended tragically, with 13 dead, and the airport opened in 1978.








A Cambodian woman holds her child while waiting to distribute food in a refugee camp.








A horrible picture of famine in Africa. A missionary holding the hand of a starving child in Uganda.








Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina leads a session of the Spanish Parliament suspended for a coup. The deputies were held hostage for 18 hours until, finally, the coup failed.








The slaughter of Palestinians in Lebanon at the hands of Phalangist Lebanese al-Hizb al-Lubnaniya Kata'ib in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.


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A mother mourns the death of her five children after an earthquake. As she and her husband were milking their cows, at half past five, they were surprised by an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. His children died under the rubble of her home while sleeping.


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A dead child is discovered buried after the Bhopal disaster in India, where a toxic gas leak killed thousands of people. The perpetrators were of the company Union Carbide, and the aftermath are still seen in the inhabitants to this day.


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A 12-year-old Omaira Sanchez is trapped by natural debris left by the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia. She resisted for 60 hours, but then lost consciousness and died of a heart attack.








The skin lesions of Ken Meeks, an AIDS patient affected with Kaposi's sarcoma, a disease resulting from the syndrome. Came one of the most difficult challenges for modern medicine.








A mother cries leaning on the arms of a policeman after a revolt. His son had previously been arrested for participating in the protest.








The Armenian earthquake of 1988 left many victims. Among these was the son of Boris Abgarzian, 17 years old, who cries as she buries her body.








Another classic photograph. A person challenges a line of tanks assault on Tiananmen Square in China. The protesters demanded democratic reform.








Family and friends of Elshani Nashim, are crying alredeor of his body, which was dead after participating in a protest against the Yugoslav regime that decided to abolish the autonomy of Kosovo.








Sergeant U.S. Army Ken Kozakiewicz mourns the death of his friend Andy Alaniz, after he was shot in one of the last armed clashes Gulf War.








A mother wraps her child in white robes, according to local custom in Somalia, after the death of a victim of the terrible famine that swept the country for two years. An estimated 200 people died per day due to hunger. It was learned also that some of the food aid sent in was stolen by armed rebel groups.








Children showing their weapons after a Palestinian uprising in the Gaza Strip. The government of Israel closed the border and left more than 800 thousand people locked up, a fact that severely increased violence and clashes to death.








In a Red Cross hospital, a Hutu man bears the scars left by the Hutu Interahamwe militia, who suspected he was sympathetic to the Tutsi rebels. Formed part of the Rwandan genocide, which left the African country with 10 percent fewer people, a total of between 500 000 and 1 million people killed.


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During a fight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops, a bus leaves the war zone. After finishing the fight in the capital of Chechnya, Russian troops continued to pursue the rebels for the country's rural areas.








Victims of civil war in Angola.
Children who were maimed by landmines lie in Kuito, a town whose population was decimated after the war.








A woman cries outside the hospital Zmirli in Algeria, where the victims were taken.
During 22 to September 23, 1997, in Bentalha, the village was brutally attacked by guerrillas and it is estimated that the dead were about 400 people. The event is known as "The Slaughter of Bentalha".








A woman receives the love and condolences to his family at the funeral of her husband, a soldier belonging to Albanian rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army.








A man walks into one of the largest refugee camps in Albania during the Kosovo war.








The mother of a family of Mexican immigrants work making piñatas to support their children. Many of those who were not registered by the census, so they are known as the "uncounted", not listed in the records of the U.S..








According to Muslim tradition, a refugee child is wrapped in white cloth for burial after death dehydrated in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
The family allowed the photographer take a picture of the intimate moment.


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A child cries while holding in their hands, pants of his father, who died after a fatal earthquake in Armenia. Meanwhile, soldiers and civilians dug dozens of graves for victims.








An Iraqi man comforts his son while detained in a camp for prisoners of war by the United States. A soldier cut off the chains of their hands so that the man could hold his son, but the soldier did not agree to remove the plastic hood.








A woman mourns a relative killed by the tsunami in Indonesia. An earthquake measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale struck the coast of Sumatra, as well as being catastrophic and devastating to nine countries in Southeast Asia. In fact, affected even to distant countries like Somalia and Tanzania.








A girl of 1 year, suffering from malnutrition, press the lips of his mother in an emergency feeding center in Nigeria. A drought unpredictable, with an allowance of locusts destroyed the crops of the country and millions of people were left without food.








Youth of Lebanon in their cars roam the streets of Haret Hreik, a neighborhood destroyed by a bombing in Beirut.








A soldier of the army of the United States lies in a trench at the end of the day in the Korangal Valley, during the invasion of Afghanistan.








An armed police enter an abandoned house, after the expiration of a mortgage.
It is standard procedure to verify that the previous owners have left the house and have left no firearms..








A girl of 18 was crippled by the Taliban forces in Afghanistan, after she left her husband accusing him of violent treatment. The Taliban took home from their parents and handed to the family of her former husband. There and in collaboration with one of the brothers of her former husband, cut off his ears and nose. Finally, she was abandoned.


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A woman holds her injured relative, inside a mosque used as a military hospital. They were treated dissidents against the president of Yemen, who started a revolt.






This image is not received the "World Press Photo", but could not miss this post.
One of the images that remain in the great books of history.




The police attack on the rights of a group of young people who were demonstrating in a peaceful manner, sprayed pepper spray at close range. This group of young people are part of the movement "Ocuppy" who were demonstrating in the city of New York.






Source:

World Press Photo.-