Powerful Pictures

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I posted these pictures on my other blog some time back but I think they deserve to be posted here as well. Here are six of my favourite photographs - ones that I find extremely powerful in very different ways.

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BY: Marc Riboud
Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march by Marc Riboud, USA, 1967.

BY: Nicholas Tikhomiroff
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin wearing Cerruti creations at their appartment on Verneuil Street in Paris, France, 1969.

BY: Jonas Bendiksen
Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies in Russia, 2000.

BY: Burt Glinn
Members of the Seattle Tubing Society in full float, USA, 1953.

BY: Danny Lyon
The Bikeriders, Dayton, Ohio, 1966.

BY: Elliot Erwitt
Segregated water fountains, USA, 1950.