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Question: Are there real pictures taken of Titanic while it was sinking!?
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No, there are no surviving pictures of the Titanic while it sank!. Was it possible pictures were taken!? Yes!. There were a number of photographers, and even video filmmakers aboard the ship!. I don't know of any accounts of someone noticing people taking pictures or video, but if anyone did, they failed to get the film to one of the lifeboats in time!. It would have made for an amazing record had someone done so though!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No!.

There are some surviving pictures of the early part of the voyage, a Catholic Priest booked passage on Titanic from England to Ireland!. He got off at Ireland and took his camera with him!.

The reason none were taken of the sinking are several!. One is that the survivors were busy doing what it took to survive!. Another is that although cameras did exist (the Kodak Brownie camera had been developed 12 years prior) they wern't the same sort of cameras we have today, and flash photography did not exist for any real practical purpose!. TITANIC was sinking at night remember!.!.!.even if someone had thought to take pictures, and saved the camera, it still would have been to dark for them to come out!.

The biggest single reason though was that TITANIC sank in a different era!. People today live in a media saturated culture, they see being on TV, no matter what the reason, as a form of validation!. People will walk out into hurricanes and risk their lives to get pictures they then give away to CNN!.!.!.they even record ther own crimes, and do amazingly stupid things and then proudly post them on youtube!. In 1912 people weren't media obsessed, and there was a great deal more decourum, manners, and civility in society!. Even if it was possible for people to take pictures of the sinking, most of the people of 1912 would not have done so!. It was an age when most people would not dream of photographing their fellow human beings under such circumstances, much less publishing such photos!.

Exploiting the suffering and tragedy of others would have as been seen as disrespectul and rude!. Publishing such lurid and exploitatve photos would have been seen as obscene!. (Not that it wouldn't have been done by the New York papers if they thought they could get away with it!. )

There were some photos taken by people on the Carpathia the next morning of the resuce of the survivors, but I don't think anyone photographed the bodies in the water, unlike today!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Very unlikely!. The Titanic sank very quickly!. Most people were concerned about surviving (not drowning, freezing to death), and the other ocean-liners were hours away!. It had already broken in two and sank by the time help made it to the victims!.

I would bet that those who were there and survived the tragedy had a picture burned into their memory that they would never forget!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, I don't believe there are!. Imagine a monstrous ship sinking slowly into the icy waters, and thousands of people drowning and splashing about trying to save themselves!. Nobody would have time to get out a camera and take a picture, especially with the cameras they had back then!. Come to think of it, cameras were rare in them days, not many people would have had one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, there are no photographs of the Titanic sinking!.
However a passenger did sketch how it sunk!.
http://www!.ithaca!.edu/library/training/g!.!.!.
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I highly doubt it!. Because of how bulky and slow camera equipment was at this time, I do not think there was sufficient time to take pictures with a long enough exposure to have them develop properly!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I highly doubt it!. People were too busy saving themselves and most didn't worry about their possessions!. There was no time to worry about taking pictures!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, the cameras back in 1912 were very different then they are now!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Damn good question!. Highly improbable though!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i don't think so!. because nobody new it sunk until after it happened!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

nope dont think soWww@QuestionHome@Com