May 8, 2012
Superheroes and super villains in historical war photos
Photo artist Agan Harahap has taken classic movie and comic book characters out of the realm of fantasy and placed them in the even grittier realm of real history. Visit his photo set on Flickr for more info on most these pics…
American soldiers fighting on the street. Normandy, 1944…
Heinrich Himmler inspects a POW camp, 1941…
Gun post on a hotel roof. Moscow, 1941…
German soldiers surrendering, 1944…
More German soldiers surrendering, 1945…
British paratroopers at Greenham Common Airfield, 1944…
Castro at MATS Terminal Washington, 1959…
Navy Coast Guard, 1943…
U.S. soldiers recovering art stolen by the Nazis, 1945…
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin, 1945…
Afghan resistance fighters returning to a village destroyed by Soviet forces, 1986…
(via Visual News)
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Those aren’t British paratroopers they’re wearing 101st Airborne arm patches.
Yep, Ransom Maggard is correct. Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne. Those are US Paratroopers. I know because my grandfather was one of them.
cool pictures….
I like the concept, but the contexts and execution leave something to be desired.
Does anyone else have a hard time with these? To me, it seems to be a mockery of the sacrifice the actual soldiers (or prisoners) made for their respective efforts. I find the one with the concentration camp particularly offensive. That was one of the most despicable moments in modern history, and having captain America thrown in there seems flippant.
I’m not trying to hate on the post, and I’m not speaking of every single picture. Rather, I am wondering what the message of the art is? I can’t seem to come up with one that doesn’t involve irreverence or disrespect.
the message of the art is “hey, that’s a cool idea to put super heroes into historical pictures, let’s see how it looks”
MOST are is “disrespectful” of something, somewhere, and if you can’t see the light side of things, like a war that was 70 years ago, then you need to remove the stick from it’s place up your butt, and learn to see the lighter side of things
I’m sure the artist wasn’t thinking “HAH, let’s see how much I can make soldiers look like their sacrifice was nothing”, but just thought it was an interesting idea, it’s called “creativity”, maybe you should learn about it
next you’ll be complaining that Damien Hirst’s Cow & Sheep art were making a mockery of how vegetarians see animals – IT’S JUST ART!
is it me or does fidel castro look just like liam neeson…it’s probably me.
I think Darth would look more convincing if he weren’t brandishing an obvious toy light saber.