Frames that have become past to their authors
This collection of photographs that will touch you for a living. Among these images a lot of fakes. And yet it happens that people die, and the film, memory card and even the cameras remain intact and preserve the evidence of just what's happened.
Bill Biggart died on 11 September 2001. After hearing about the aircraft hit the world trade center, he ran out of the house with three cameras.
Biggart filmed the fall of the South tower and was killed by the rubble of the North. Four days later, his body and the wreckage camera was found among the ruins.
Paul Sutter is a leading photographer of LIFE magazine. In June 1967, he came to Israel. By the time Egyptian President publicly urged to "throw the Jews into the sea, destroying them as a nation," and all the neighboring Arab countries have held a full mobilization.
Sutter received a fatal wound in the head when he was driving a military truck with Israeli soldiers. And in a second the truck was hit by a shell. The body of the photographer and the camera wreckage was found a day later.
Japanese volcano Intake is popular among novice climbers. When the eruption began, on the slopes of Intake climbed more than 300 people. Some of them managed to successfully go. Photographer Izumi Noguchi with the others tried to hide in the mountaineering camp.
The camp was covered with a cloud of hot gas and rocks. The camera melted, but the memory card survived.
The mystery of the terrible tragedy that occurred in the Northern Ural mountains in 1959, is still not disclosed. On the fourth pass, which now bears the name of the Dyatlov, killing a large group of tourists and students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute.
What killed them? There are many different versions: from avalanches and snow storms to mystical attacks by unknown creatures and testing a secret weapon.
The wild version was warmed by the publication of the films "dyatlovtsev", received in 2009 from the personal archive of the Prosecutor, who conducted their business. Of particular prominence was the last frame with the camera "Zorki" one of the tourists — Yuri krivonischenko: on blurred photos can be seen moving in the dark light balls.
Wife Knill from Canada to celebrate Christmas in Thailand, the resort of Khao Lak. In the morning they went to the beach and began to take pictures of a big wave on the horizon.
It was a tsunami caused by the earthquake in the Indian ocean. A month later, at Khao Lak arrived missionary Christian Pilet. He found on the beach by a broken digital camera. He later sent the memory card to the children of John and Jackie.
Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino was really a smart animal and bears. And actually died in Russia from the bear attack. But...
The brown bear, setting a tent is a fake.
It was published in 2009 in the framework of the competition photojob "the Last photo, which you could remove" on the website worth1000.com. Who tied the famous photographer of this photo is unknown. Moreover, the Japanese had died in the night, a bear killed him, not pulling through the entrance, and tearing the fabric of the tent.
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