life:
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated.
On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The two men jumped into their car, raced the 200 miles to the scene of the crime, and there — to their astonishment — found that they had unfettered access to the hotel’s grounds; to the abandoned buildings from which the rifle shot likely came; to Dr. King’s room; and to the bleak, blood-stained balcony where the civil rights leader had fallen, mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet, mere hours earlier.
Unpublished: Outside of room 306, Theatrice Bailey, the brother of the motel’s owner, sweeps blood from the balcony.
See more photos here.
(Henry Groskinsky—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
photojojo:
Beautiful portraits by Troy Moth from the 2010 Whitesands Powwow in Northern Ontario, Canada.
Troy’s portfolio’s pretty amazing considering he’s shot everything from fashion to animals.
Portraits from the 2010 Whitesands Powwow
amillion-photos:
(by mariarassie)
Ciwan, clipping his toenails.
Pedro, Chima and Daer jumping down from the rooftop of Melia hotel in Mexico City. (Photo: Tomasz Gudzowaty/Agentur Focus/Hollandse Hoogte)
cutie patootie why aren’t you mine?
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hrtbps:
A well nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during a food distribution at Medecins Sans Frontieres feeding centre at Ajiep, southern Sudan, in 1998. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)
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photojojo:
Usually when we talk about “shooting” we mean photos, but this 1938 revolver camera shoots a picture and a bullet at the same time! Yikes!
(Photo thanks to the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands)
HOLDTHEFUCKUP! woah.
