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19 dic 2023 · TIME magazine decided to create a list of the 100 most influential pictures ever taken. They teamed up with curators, historians, photo editors, and famous photographers around the world for this task.
- The Soviet Flag Over The Reichstag, 1945
Next to Joe Rosenthal’s photo of raising the flag on Iwo...
- Migrant Mother, 1936
While Thompson’s identity was not known for over 40 years...
- V-J Day Kiss in Times Square
After four years of blackout, all the lights in Times Square...
- The Falling Soldier
And in the seconds before the soldier fell Capa squeezed the...
- A Father Comforts His Son on His Deathbed. The Photo That Changed The Face of Aids. 1989
Menu Rare Historical Photos. Home; Iconic Photos; World War...
- When The Soviets Arrived to Crush The Prague Spring, 1968
Some 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded...
- A Mother and Her Daughter Falling From a Fire Escape, 1975
If it was so hot near the building, why is the bearded man...
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- The Soviet Flag Over The Reichstag, 1945
- #2The Famous Photo The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz | 1907
- Stanley Forman’s Famous Photo Woman Falling from Fire Escape |1975
- Kevin Carter’s Controversial Photo – Starving Child and Vulture | 1993
- Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer Eddie Adams | Saigon Execution | 1968
- Yousuf Karsh’s Iconic Portrait – Winston Churchill | 1941
- Nick UT | The Terror of War | 1972
- Margaret Bourke-White’s Famous Photograph – Gandhi and The Spinning Wheel | 1946
- Lewis Hine’s Famous Image – Cotton Mill Girl | 1908
- Blind Beggar by Paul Strand | 1916
- The Iconic V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt | 1945
One of the most famous photographers of the early 20th Century, Stieglitz fought for photography to be taken as seriously as painting as a valid art form. His pioneering work helped to change the way many viewed photography. His NYC galleries featured many of the best photographers of the day. His iconic image “The Steerage” not only encapsulates w...
Forman was a well-known photographer working for the Boston Herald when he attended the scene of a fire. What began as him documenting the rescue of a young woman and child quickly took a turn when the fire escape collapsed. The pair began to fall and he continued shooting as they were falling. He capturing them swimmingthrough the air. Forman only...
This image is another Pulitzer Prize-winning image. As famous for its social impact, as it is the ethical issues it raised. In 1993 South African photojournalist Kevin Carter traveled to Sudan to photograph the famine. His image of a collapsed child, with a vulture stalking over her, not only caused public outrage because of the horrific subject. I...
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Eddie Adams was on the streets of Saigon on the 1st February 1968 photographing the devastation of the war. Believing he was witnessing a routine execution of a prisoner. He looked through the viewfinder of his camera, to capture the scene. But what he captured was the casual assassination of the prisoner. Thi...
In the wake of the attack on pearl harbor, Churchill arrived in Ottawa, to thank the allies for their assistance. Unaware that a photographer had been commissioned to take his portrait he refused to remove his cigar. Once the photographer was set up he walked towards Churchill, removed the cigar from his mouth and took his famous photograph with th...
25 miles northwest of Saigon, war photographer Nick Ut, captured one of the most harrowing images in the history of the Vietnam War. More often than not, the faces of those who suffer through the collateral damage of war are not seen. But the harrowing image of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phucforced the world to see. A victim of mistakenly dropped napa...
In 1946 Margaret Bourke-White, LIFE magazine’s first female photographer, was offered a rare opportunity to photograph Mahatma Gandhi. This dream opportunity quickly turned into a nightmare. She was made to overcome many challenges before gaining access to India’s ideological leader. Including to spin Gandhi’s famous homespun. After two failed shoo...
Established in 1904, the National Child Labor Committee, existed to fight for the rights of child workers in the USA. They realized that the most powerful tool they had was to show the real face of these children. They believed that seeing these images of child laborwould awaken the citizens to demand change. When Lewis Hine, an investigative photo...
Paul Strand’s groundbreaking image of a blind woman was a candid portrait that departed from the more formal posed portraits of that time. Strand not only captured a moment in time, when a country was changing rapidly, due to an immigration surge. But he also took the first image that paved the way for a new style – street photography.
Alfred Eisenstaedt’s mission through this photograph was to “to find and catch the storytelling moment.” In this post-WWII photograph in Times Square, he did just that. His famous photograph of the soldier and dental nurse has become one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, signifying the joyous end to years of war.
29 set 2023 · From famous Vietnam war photos documenting the brutal nature of humankind to famous crime scene photos that showed the dirty underbelly of our society to much more elevated topics and images such as space exploration and scientific achievements that saved millions of lives.
5 set 2021 · From Tank Man to Burning Monk, the Kennedy assassination, D-Day, the moon landing, and beyond, the influential images above provide a history lesson more powerful than any you've ever experienced before.
- Savannah Cox
These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—but they are all considered key images in the history of photography.
28 set 2021 · From the momentous events that defined history to its lesser-known episodes, these historical photos provide a fascinating look at humankind. These unforgettable pictures from history capture everything from the Holocaust to the Civil War to the Civil Rights heroics of Mister Rogers.
Thanks to the internet and our smartphones, with their built-in cameras, we now see more images each day than the people who lived in a world of paintings and prints saw in a lifetime. Most of these photographs we flip past and forget.
