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Execution of a Viet
Cong Guerrilla [1968]
This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer price with it. The
picture shows Nguyen Ngoc Loan,
The
lynching of young blacks [1930]
This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing tho
young black men accused of raping a Caucasian woman and killing her boyfriend,
hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men. The mob took them by force from the county
jail house. Another black man was left behind and ended up being saved from
lynching. Even if lynching photos were designed to boost white supremacy, the
tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting many.
Soweto Uprising [1976]
It was a picture that got the world's attention: A frozen moment in time that
showed 13-year-old Hector Peterson dying after being struck down by a
policeman's bullet.
Hazel Bryant [1957]
It was the fourth school year since segregation had been outlawed by the
Supreme Court. Things were not going well, and some southerners accused the
national press of distorting matters. This picture, however, gave irrefutable
testimony, as Elizabeth Eckford strides through a
gantlet of white students, including Hazel Bryant (mouth open the widest), on
her way to
By Will Counts
Triangle
Shirtwaist Company Fire [1911]
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company always kept its doors locked to ensure that the
young immigrant women stayed stooped over their machines and didn't steal
anything. When a fire broke out on Saturday, March 25, 1911, on the eighth
floor of the
Phan Thị Kim Phúc [1972]
Phan Thị Kim Phúc known as Kim Phuc (born
1963) was the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam war. The picture shows
her at about age nine running naked after being severely burned on her back by
a napalm attack.
Kent State [1970]
The news that Richard Nixon was sending troops to
This is the picture of a student/man going to work who has just had enough.
The days leading up to this event thousands of protesters and innocent by
standers were killed by their own government because the Chinese people wanted
more rights. He tries to stop the tanks in Tiananmen Square by standing in
front of them and climbed on the tank and hitting the hatch and yelling, the
tank driver didn't crush the man with the bags as a group of unknown people
came and dragged him away, we still don't know if the man is alive or dead as
the Chinese government executed many of the protesters involved.
There are two well know photos taken of the protester by two different
photojournalist, so I thought I would show both images and give both
photographer credit for there work as many people think that both images where
taken by the same person.
By Stuart Franklin
By
Jeff Widener
Thích Quảng Đức [1963]
Thích Quảng Ðức was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself
to death at a busy
" I
was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a
human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head
blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human
beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the
Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to
take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think.... As he burned he
never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp
contrast to the wailing people around him."
Portrait of Winston
Churchill [1941]
This photograph was taken by Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian
photographer, when Winston Churchill came to
Albert Einstein
[1951]
Albert Einstein is probably one of the most popular figures of all times. He is
considered a genius because he created the Theory of Relativity, and so,
challenged
By Arthur Sasse
Nagasaki
[1945]
This is the picture of the "mushroom cloud" showing the enormous
quantity of energy. The first atomic bomb was released on August 6 in
Hiroshima,
Three Weeks After the Bomb [1945]
Americans -- and everyone -- had heard of the bomb that "leveled"
And here is a groud view of the
destruction.
Dead on the Beach
[1943]
Haunting photograph of a beach in
By George Strock
Buchenwald [1945]
George Patton's troops when they liberated the
Anne Frank [1941]
Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one
teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent
who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her
family in an
V-J Day, Times Square,
[1945]
or "The Kiss", at the end of World War II, in US cities everybody
went to the streets to salute the end of combat. Friendship and unity were
everywhere. This picture shows a sailor kissing a young nurse in
Casualties of war [1991]
Image of a young
The widely published photo became an iconic image of the 1991 Gulf war - a war
in which media access was limited by Pentagon restrictions.
The Falling Man [2001]
The powerful and controversial photograph provoked feelings of anger, particularly
in the
Drew commented about the varying reactions, saying, "This is how it
affected people's lives at that time, and I think that is why it's an important
picture. I didn't capture this person's death. I captured part of his life.
This is what he decided to do, and I think I preserved that."9/11: The
Falling Man ends suggesting that this picture was not a matter of the identity
behind the man, but how he symbolized the events of 9/11.
U.S. Marines
raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945]
Raising the Flag on
The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of
publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize
for Photography in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be
regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and
possibly the most reproduced photograph of all times.
Lunch atop a
Skyscraper [1932]
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam)
is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets
during construction of the GE Building at
The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet
dangling hundreds of feet above the
Heres a rare image by the same photographer showing the workers sleeping
on the crossbeam.
Migrant
Mother [1936]
For many, this picture of Florence Owens Thompson (age 32) represents the Great
Depression. She was the mother of 7 and she struggled to survive with her kids
catching birds and picking fruits. Dorothea Lange took the picture after
Omayra
Sánchez [1985]
Red Cross rescue workers had apparently repeatedly appealed to the government
for a pump to lower the water level and for other help to free the girl.
Finally rescuers gave up and spent their remaining time with her, comforting
her and praying with her. She died of exposure after about 60 hours.
By Frank Fournier
A vulture watches a starving child [1993]
The prize-winning image: A vulture watches a starving child in southern
Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child
collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in
the
Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the
"Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout
Haunted by the horrific images from
By Kevin Carter
Biafra [1969]
When the Igbos of eastern
Misery in Darfur [2004]
It's an image which depicts a depressed, shoulders-down figure of a child in a
cluster of what remains of her family.
The very weather-beaten arm of her mother goes over her left shoulder and there
are the very small weather-beaten hands of the child, who is about five or six,
clinging on to this one piece of security that she has, which is the
weather-beaten hand of her mother.
The mother is not in the image, she's in the background. But then slightly
further in the background you see the other hands of her brothers and sisters
as they wait in this village.
Tragedy
in Oklahoma [1995]
The fireman has taken the time to remove his gloves before receiving this
infant from the policeman.
Anyone who knows anything about firefighters know that their gloves are very
rough and abrasive and to remove these is like saying I want to make sure that
I am as gentle and as compassionate as I can be with this infant that I don't
know is dead or alive.
The fireman is just cradling this infant with the utmost compassion and caring.
He is looking down at her with this longing, almost to say with his eyes:
"It's going to be OK, if there's anything I can
do I want to try to help you."
He doesn't know that she has already passed away.
By Chris Porter
How Life Begins
[1965]
In 1957 he began taking pictures with an endoscope, an instrument that can see
inside a body cavity, but when Lennart Nilsson
presented the rewards of his work to LIFE's editors
several years later, they demanded that witnesses confirm that they were seeing
what they thought they were seeing. Finally convinced, they published a cover
story in 1965 that went on for 16 pages, and it created a sensation. Then, and
over the intervening years, Nilsson's painstakingly made pictures informed how
humanity feels about . . . well, humanity. They also were appropriated for
purposes that Nilsson never intended. Nearly as soon as the 1965 portfolio
appeared in LIFE, images from it were enlarged by right-to-life activists and
pasted to placards.
By Lennart Nilsson
First Flight [1903]
December 17, 1903 was the day humanity spread its wings and rose above the
ground - for 12 seconds at first and by the end of the day for almost a minute
- but it was a major breakthrough. Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle
mechanics from
By John T. Daniels
Earthrise [1968]
The late adventure photographer Galen Rowell called it "the most
influential environmental photograph ever taken." Captured on Christmas
Eve, 1968, near the end of one of the most tumultuous years the
