PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 10 months agoFemale IRA partisan with an AR-18, 1973media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squarenslatz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoColman Doyle’s 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/
minus-squareFireTower@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 months agoReminds me of this famous picture too: I find it funny that they’re either obviously staged or the photographer is standing in an awfully precarious location.
minus-squareCurlyMoustache@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoIt looks just as absurd as the situation was. Here’s a picture by Philip Jones Griffiths:
Colman Doyle’s 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/
Reminds me of this famous picture too:
I find it funny that they’re either obviously staged or the photographer is standing in an awfully precarious location.
It looks just as absurd as the situation was. Here’s a picture by Philip Jones Griffiths: