[Leica] McCurry

[Richard Man]

Frank, the blue dot photo is the "most important" because it shows that all
of humanity, really just lives on this fragile blue dot, hanging in space.
That feeling transcends national boundary, which is precisely the point.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> I wouldn't think so.
> We do tend to say "in the world" when we mean "around here"...
> Here in the UK the Afghan girl picture will be much better known than the
> NASA one, in the USA I could easily imagine the NASA picture has been more
> widely distributed.
> In the world? I have no idea.
> In terms of number of people being familiar with it I would guess an
> iconic picture from an Indian photographer would be known by more people
> "in the world", even if you and I have never seen it, simply since there
> are over a billion people in India!
> Frank
>
> > On 24 Mar, 2015, at 00:06, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes it is.  Thanks for the link.  Only thing I would find in possible
> error is the title.  I think the world's most famous photo is this:
> >
> > https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html
> >
> > Of course, you might have a different opinion.
> >
> > Aram
> >
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> >> Interesting:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/world/steve-mccurry-afghan-girl-photo/index.html
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