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List of photographs considered the most important

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This is a list of photographs considered the most important in surveys where authoritative sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—and are considered key images in the history of photography.

Tables

· 19th century › Before 1850
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras)
1826
Nicéphore Niépce
Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France
Bitumen-coated pewter plate
Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph.
Windows From Inside South Gallery
August 1835
William Henry Fox Talbot
Lacock, England, United Kingdom
Photogenic drawing negative
The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.
The Artist's Studio
1837
Louis Daguerre
Paris, France
Daguerreotype
Boulevard du Temple
1838
Louis Daguerre
Paris, France
Daguerreotype
The earliest surviving photograph depicting people: a person working as a shoeshiner and an individual having his shoes shined.
Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man
18 October 1840
Hippolyte Bayard
Paris, France
Direct Positive
Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process.
The Haystack
1844
William Henry Fox Talbot
Lacock, England, United Kingdom
Calotype
A photograph that appeared in The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published.
· 19th century › 1850s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
The Mime Charles Deburau as Pierrot
1854
Nadar
Paris, France
Salt print
The photograph is part of a series taken during the 1850s.
The Cook House of the 8th Hussars
April 1855
Roger Fenton
Crimea
Salt print
Valley of the Shadow of Death
23 April 1855
Roger Fenton
Sevastopol, Crimea
Wet collodion negative
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.
Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter
1855
Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall
Unknown
Unknown (likely albumen print)
The Brig
1856
Gustave Le Gray
Normandy, France
Albumen print
Portrait of Nariakira Shimazu
17 September 1857
Shiro Ichiki
Satsuma Domain, Japan
Daguerreotype
Oldest daguerreotype by a Japanese author; first photo designated an Important Cultural Property by the government of Japan in 1999.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern
November 1857
Robert Howlett
London, England
Glass plate
Landmark environmental portraiture and iconography of the Industrial Revolution and 19th century.
Two Ways of Life
1857
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Wolverhampton, England
Albumen print
La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene)
1857
Camille Silvy
Nogent-le-Rotrou, France
Albumen print
Fading Away
1858
Henry Peach Robinson
Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Albumen print
· 19th century › 1860s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
Abraham Lincoln
27 February 1860
Mathew Brady
New York City, United States
Gelatin silver print
Taken shortly before Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech. Widely used in his campaign during the 1860 presidential election, both Brady's photo and the speech helped him become president.
Guardian Angel, One Person Praying
c. 1860
Unknown
London, England, United Kingdom
Albumen print
Boston, As the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It
13 October 1860
James Walice Black
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Glass plate
Cathedral Rock
1861
Carleton Watkins
Yosemite National Park, California, United States
Albumen print
The Dead of Antietam
1862
Alexander Gardner
Antietam, Maryland, United States
Large-format glass plate
Showing the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam—the deadliest single day in the American Civil War
The Scourged Back
c. 2 April 1863
McPherson & Oliver
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Albumen print
One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement.
Cartes de Visite
May - August 1863
Andre Adolphe Disderi
Paris, France
Albumen print
The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg
July 1863
Alexander Gardner
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Large-format glass plate
Sarah Bernhardt
1864
Nadar
Paris, France
Glass plate
Wanted Poster
20 April 1865
Unknown
United States
Unknown
Broadside advertising reward for capture of Lincoln assassination conspirators, illustrated with photographic prints of John H. Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, and David E. Herold.
Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal
7 July 1865
Alexander Gardner
Washington, D.C., United States
Albumen print
Portrait of Sir John Herschel
1867
Julia Margaret Cameron
Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom
Carbon print
Herschel would later be the godfather to Cameron's firstborn.
Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!
1867
Julia Margaret Cameron
Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom
Carbon print
Close No. 193 High Street
1868
Thomas Annan
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Photogravure
East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail
10 May 1869
Andrew J. Russell
Promontory, Utah, United States
Glass plate
The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Central Pacific Railroad (left), meets Union Pacific Railroad (right) and exchange bottles of water from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
· 19th century › 1870s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
Old Faithful
1870
William Henry Jackson
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
Mammoth-format plate
Great Falls of the Yellowstone River
1871
William Henry Jackson
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
Albumen print
Chicago Fire
October 1871
Unknown
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Unknown
Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly
1873
Timothy O'Sullivan
Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, United States
Albumen print
Steinway Hall
2 December 1873
Unknown
New York City, United States
Halftone print
Steinway Hall on East 14th Street, between University Place and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The first halftone print of a photo used in a periodical in the United States.
Composite Portraits of Criminal Types
1877
Francis Galton
London, England, United Kingdom
Unknown
The Horse in Motion
June 1878
Eadweard Muybridge
Palo Alto, California, United States
Composite from multiple glass plates
Series of cabinet cards regarded as a precursor to motion pictures. Pictured left is the variant Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, which further captured a horse's motion.
· 19th century › 1880s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street
1880
Jacob Riis
New York City, United States
Gelatin silver print
Water Rats
1886
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
Whitby, England, United Kingdom
Albumen print
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street
1888
Jacob Riis
Mulberry Bend, New York City, United States
Gelatin silver print
Part of How the Other Half Lives, an early photojournalist publication pursuing better conditions for the lower class of New York City. The photo and publication's impact was such that they contributed to the crime-ridden Bend's replacement with Columbus Park.
· 19th century › 1890s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen
1895
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany
X-ray
The first X-ray, taken by its inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring.
Shroud of Turin negative
1898
Secondo Pia
Turin, Italy
Negative
Photographic negative of an ancient cloth relic shows details of a scourged and crucified human body
Organ Player and Singing Girl
1898
Eugène Atget
Paris, France
Gelatin silver print
Portrait of Emil Racoviță
1899
Louis Boutan
Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Glass plate
First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed for underwater photography.
· 20th century › 1900s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
A Sea of Steps
1903
Frederick H. Evans
Wells Cathedral, England, United Kingdom
Large Format
One of Evans's finest works in architectural photography.
First Flight
17 December 1903
John T. Daniels
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, United States
Glass plate
Captured flight of the first airplane, the Wright Flyer, flown by inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.
The Vanishing Race–Navaho
1904
Edward S. Curtis
Arizona, United States
Photogravure
Taken during the cultural assimilation of Native Americans while also popularizing the Vanishing Indian stereotype.
The Flatiron
1904
Edward Steichen
New York City, United States
Blue-green pigment gum bichromate over platinum print
A print of this photograph became the second most expensive photograph ever sold on 9 November, 2022, when it sold for $11,840,000, at Christie's New York, well above the estimate of $2,000,000–3,000,000.
The Pond—Moonlight
1904
Edward Steichen
Mamaroneck, New York, United States
Multiple gum bichromate print over platinum
Pictorialist hand-colored photograph; only three versions exist. In 2006, a print became the most expensive photo sold.
An Oasis in the Badlands
1905
Edward S. Curtis
South Dakota, United States
Glass plate
Bichonnade in Flight
1905
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Paris, France
Gelatin silver print
San Francisco Earthquake
18 April 1906
Arnold Genthe
San Francisco, California, United States
Unknown (likely gelatin silver print)
The Steerage
1907
Alfred Stieglitz
Aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Glass plate
Landmark modernist photo depicting immigrants on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill
1908
Lewis Hine
Newberry, South Carolina, United States
Glass plate
Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.
The North Pole
6 April 1909
Robert E. Perry
Arctic Ocean
Cactus Hot Air Balloon
1909
Léon Gimpel
Paris, France
Autochrome
· 20th century › 1910s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
Breaker Boys
1911
Lewis Hine
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States
Unknown (likely gelatin silver print)
Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
25 March 1911
Brown Brothers
New York City, United States
The South Pole
14 December 1911
Bjorn Finstad
South Pole, Antarctica
Amundsen's South Pole expedition
Girl with a Mirror
1912
Clarence H. White
New York City, United States
Platinum print
Storyville Portrait
1912
Bellocq
Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Une Delage au Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France de 1912
1912
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Dieppe, France
Large Format
This photo depicts René Croquet [fr], with his riding mechanic.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
15 January 1913
Baron Adolphe de Meyer
New York City, United States
Trampled by the Kings Horse
4 June 1913
Arthur Barrett
United Kingdom
Emily Davison is struck by King George's horse, Anmer, and knocked unconscious. She died four days later from a fractured skull.
Abstraction, Porch Shadows
1916
Paul Strand
Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
Silver-platinum print
Passport of Isadora Duncan
1916
Copied by Brad Trent
United States
Blind Woman, New York
1916
Paul Strand
New York City, United States
Large format camera with trick lens and right-angle mirror
Cottingley Fairies
1917
Elsie Wright
Cottingley, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Glass plate
German Trenches Near Reims
1918
Julien Bryan
Reims, France
· 20th century › 1920s
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
Armco Steel
1922
Edward Weston
Middletown, Ohio, United States
Gelatin silver print
Le Violon d'Ingres
1924
Man Ray
Paris, France
Unknown
The photograph depicts Alice Prin, known as Kiki de Montparnasse, from the back and nude to below her waist. Two f-holes are painted on her back to make her body resemble a violin.
Movement Study
1926
Rudolf Koppitz
Vienna, Austria
Gelatin silver print on carte-postale
Kiki with African Mask
1926
Man Ray
Paris, France
Gelatin silver print
Charles Lindbergh, Croydon Aerodrome
29 May 1927
Pacific and Atlantic photos inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
1927
Ansel Adams
Yosemite National Park, California, United States
Glass plate
Bricklayer
1928
August Sander
Cologne, Germany
Gelatin silver print
The Pastry Cook
1928
August Sander
Cologne, Germany
Large format
Woman of Tehuantapec
1929
Tina Modotti
Tehuantepec, Mexico
· 20th century › 1930s
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Title
Larmes
Date
1930
Location
Paris, France
Format
Gelatin silver print
Notes
The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears.
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Title
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare
Date
1932
Location
Paris, France
Format
35 mm
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Brussels
Date
1932
Location
Brussels, Belgium
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Title
Couple in Raccoon Coats
Date
1932
Location
New York City, United States
Format
Unknown
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Title
Io + gatto (I + Cat)
Date
1932
Location
Trieste, Italy
Format
Gelatin silver print
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Title
Girl with a Leica
Date
1934
Location
Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
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Title
Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally
Date
1934
Location
Bückeburg, Germany
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Lady Milbanke as 'Queen of the Amazons'
Date
1935
Location
London, England
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Title
The Falling Soldier
Date
1936
Location
Espejo, Spain
Format
35 mm
Notes
The photograph depicts the death of Republican soldier Federico Borrell García in the Spanish Civil War.
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Fort Peck Dam
Date
1936
Location
Fort Peck, Montana, United States
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Goldfish Bowl
Date
1937
Location
Santorini, Greece
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The Louisville Flood
Date
1937
Location
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Format
Large format
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Title
The Lambeth Walk
Date
1937
Location
London, United Kingdom
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Juvisy, France
Date
1938
Location
Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
Format
Gelatin silver print
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Title
Mainbocher Corset
Date
1939
Location
Paris, France
Format
Large format
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Aerial View of Manhattan
Date
1939
Location
New York City, United States
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Mulberry Street
Date
1939
Location
New York City, United States
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
The Hague
3 January 1930
Erich Salomon
The Hague, the Netherlands
Al Capone Mug Shot
8 May 1930
Miami Police Department
Miami, United States
Pepper No. 30
2 August 1930
Edward Weston
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States
8x10 large format view camera
With carefully crafted tones of light, this photo of a pepper emphasizes third-dimensional depth while defying conventional interpretations of form.
Lynching
7 August 1930
Lawrence Beitier
Marion, Indiana, United States
See article
Larmes
1930
Man Ray
Paris, France
Gelatin silver print
The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears.
Sleeping Woman
1930
Man Ray
Paris, France
See article
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare
1932
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Paris, France
35 mm
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Brussels
1932
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Brussels, Belgium
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Couple in Raccoon Coats
1932
James Van Der Zee
New York City, United States
Unknown
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Io + gatto (I + Cat)
1932
Wanda Wulz
Trieste, Italy
Gelatin silver print
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
20 September 1932
Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty – see article
New York City, United States
Bonnie and Clyde
1933
W. D. Jones
United States
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Girl with a Leica
1934
Alexander Rodchenko
Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
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Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally
1934
Heinrich Hoffmann
Bückeburg, Germany
Surgeon's Photograph
1934
Ian Wetherell
Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom
First AP Wirephoto
1 January 1935
Thomas Sande
Adirondack Mountains, New York, United States
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Lady Milbanke as 'Queen of the Amazons'
1935
Yevonde Middleton
London, England
Migrant Mother
6 March 1936
Dorothea Lange
Nipomo, California, United States
Large format
The photograph depicts Florence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother during the Great Depression.
Jesse Owens Salute
August 1936
Heinrich Hoffmann
Berlin, Germany
Gelatin silver print
See article
The Falling Soldier
1936
Robert Capa
Espejo, Spain
35 mm
The photograph depicts the death of Republican soldier Federico Borrell García in the Spanish Civil War.
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Fort Peck Dam
1936
Margaret Bourke-White
Fort Peck, Montana, United States
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Goldfish Bowl
1937
Herbert List
Santorini, Greece
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The Louisville Flood
1937
Margaret Bourke-White
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Large format
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The Lambeth Walk
1937
Bill Brandt
London, United Kingdom
The Hindenburg Disaster
6 May 1937
Sam Shere
Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States
Unknown
The photograph depicts the Hindenburg Zeppelin on fire at the mooring mast of Lakehurst.
Bloody Saturday
28 August 1937
H. S. Wong
Shanghai, China
35 mm
The photograph depicts a baby in bombed-out ruins in Shanghai.
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Juvisy, France
1938
Henri Cartier‐Bresson
Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
Gelatin silver print
Louis Knocks Out Schmeling
1938
Unknown photographer for the Associated Press
Bronx, New York, United States
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Mainbocher Corset
1939
Horst P. Horst
Paris, France
Large format
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Aerial View of Manhattan
1939
Margaret Bourke-White
New York City, United States
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Mulberry Street
1939
Weegee
New York City, United States
Anne Frank
May 1939
Polyfoto
Amsterdam, Netherlands
· 20th century › 1940s
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Aryan Race Determination Tests
Date
1940
Photographer
Henry Guttman
Location
Germany
See article
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Title
St Paul's Survives
Date
July 1940
Photographer
Herbert Mason
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Format
35 mm
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Buckingham Palace
Date
13 September 1940
Photographer
Cecil Beaton
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Title
Grief
Date
1942
Photographer
Dmitri Baltermants
Location
Kerch, Ukraine
Format
35 mm
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Title
Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach
Date
20 September 1943
Photographer
George Strock
Location
Buna, Papua New Guinea
Format
Unknown (likely medium format)
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The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs)
Date
6 June 1944
Photographer
Robert Capa
Location
Normandy, France
Format
35 mm
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Title
Prisoners' Hand Marks
Date
1944
Photographer
Roger Schall
Location
Paris, France
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Saipan
Date
1944
Photographer
W. Eugene Smith
Location
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
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Tide Pool, Point Lobos
Date
1945
Photographer
Edward Weston
Location
Point Lobos, California, United States
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Title
Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced
Date
April 1945
Photographer
Henri Cartier‐Bresson
Location
Dessau, Germany
Format
35 mm
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Title
Atomic Destruction
Date
1945
Photographer
Bernard Hoffman
Location
Hiroshima, Japan
Notes
The photograph was in the first collection depicting the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
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Title
Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel
Date
1946
Photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
Location
India
Notes
The photograph depicts Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel.
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Title
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Date
1947
Photographer
Amit Shabi
Location
Israel
Notes
The photograph depicts the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Biblical manuscripts.
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Title
Route 66
Date
1947
Photographer
Andreas Feininger
Location
Route 66 in Arizona, United States
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Barn Owl with Vole
Date
1947
Photographer
Eric Hosking
Location
Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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Country Doctor
Date
1948
Photographer
W. Eugene Smith
Location
Kremmling, Colorado, United States
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Title
Career Girl
Date
1948
Photographer
Leonard McCombe
Location
New York City, United States
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Title
Provençal Nude
Date
1949
Photographer
Willy Ronis
Location
Gordes, France
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Title
Nuns Watching Television
Date
1949
Photographer
Ralph Morse
Location
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
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Clarence Hailey Long
Date
1949
Photographer
Leonard McCombe
Location
Texas, United States
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
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Aryan Race Determination Tests
1940
Henry Guttman
Germany
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St Paul's Survives
July 1940
Herbert Mason
London, England, United Kingdom
35 mm
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Buckingham Palace
13 September 1940
Cecil Beaton
London, England, United Kingdom
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1 November 1941
Ansel Adams
Hernandez, New Mexico, United States
Gelatin silver print, large format
The Roaring Lion
30 December 1941
Yousuf Karsh
Ottawa, Canada
Large format
Winston Churchill
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Grief
1942
Dmitri Baltermants
Kerch, Ukraine
35 mm
The Tetons and the Snake River
1942
Ansel Adams
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States
American Gothic
August 1942
Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C., United States
35 mm
Betty Grable
1943
Frank Powolny
Los Angeles, California, United States
The Critic
1943
Weegee
New York City, United States
Unknown
Warsaw Ghetto boy
1943
Unknown
Warsaw, Poland
35 mm
Originally titled Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt ('Forcibly pulled out of bunkers')
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Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach
20 September 1943
George Strock
Buna, Papua New Guinea
Unknown (likely medium format)
Into the Jaws of Death
6 June 1944
Robert F. Sargent
Omaha Beach, France
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The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs)
6 June 1944
Robert Capa
Normandy, France
35 mm
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Prisoners' Hand Marks
1944
Roger Schall
Paris, France
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Saipan
1944
W. Eugene Smith
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
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Tide Pool, Point Lobos
1945
Edward Weston
Point Lobos, California, United States
MacArthur Returns
9 January 1945
Carl Mydans
Lingayen Gulf, Philippines
Yalta Conference
February 1945
Army Signal Corps
Yalta, Crimea
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
23 February 1945
Joe Rosenthal
Iwo Jima, Japan
Large format
The photograph depicts the raising of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Buchenwald
15 April 1945
Margaret Bourke-White
Ettersberg, Germany
Inside Buchenwald
16 April 1945
Private H. Miller
Ettersberg, Germany
See article
Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced
April 1945
Henri Cartier‐Bresson
Dessau, Germany
35 mm
Benito Mussolini
29 April 1945
Vincenzo Carrese
Milan, Italy
The dead body of Benito Mussolini next to his mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in Piazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians a year earlier after executing them in retaliation for resistance activity.
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
2 May 1945
Yevgeny Khaldei
Berlin, Germany
35 mm
The photograph depicts the raising of the Soviet flag during Battle of Berlin.
Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki
9 August 1945
Charles Levy
Nagasaki, Japan
Unknown
V-J Day in Times Square
14 August 1945
Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen)
New York City, United States
35 mm
The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day.
Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb
1945
George Silk
Hiroshima, Japan
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Atomic Destruction
1945
Bernard Hoffman
Hiroshima, Japan
The photograph was in the first collection depicting the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
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Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel
1946
Margaret Bourke-White
India
The photograph depicts Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
1947
Amit Shabi
Israel
The photograph depicts the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Biblical manuscripts.
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Route 66
1947
Andreas Feininger
Route 66 in Arizona, United States
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Barn Owl with Vole
1947
Eric Hosking
Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Babe Ruth Bows Out
13 June 1948
Nat Fein
New York City, United States
Dalí Atomicus
1948
Philippe Halsman
New York City, United States
Unknown
Juris Upatnieks Demonstrating the Hologram
1948
Fritz Goro
Michigan, United States
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Country Doctor
1948
W. Eugene Smith
Kremmling, Colorado, United States
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Career Girl
1948
Leonard McCombe
New York City, United States
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Provençal Nude
1949
Willy Ronis
Gordes, France
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Nuns Watching Television
1949
Ralph Morse
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
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Clarence Hailey Long
1949
Leonard McCombe
Texas, United States
· 20th century › 1950s
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Title
The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (French: Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville)
Date
1950
Photographer
Robert Doisneau
Location
Paris, France
Format
35 mm
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Title
Moving to the Suburbs
Date
1952
Photographer
J.R. Eyerman
Location
Lakewood, California, United States
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Title
The Announcement of Stalin's Death
Date
6 March 1953
Photographer
Dmitri Baltermants
Location
Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
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Title
Camelot
Date
1953
Photographer
Hy Peskin
Location
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
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Title
Atop Mount Everest
Date
23 May 1953
Photographer
Alfred Gregory
Location
Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal
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Title
Dovima with Elephants
Date
1955
Photographer
Richard Avedon
Location
Paris, France
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Title
Trolley – New Orleans
Date
1955
Photographer
Robert Frank
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Format
35 mm
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Title
Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In
Date
1956
Photographer
O. Winston Link
Location
Iaeger, West Virginia, United States
Format
Large format
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Title
The New King
Date
1956
Photographer
Charles Trainor
Location
Miami, Florida, United States
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Title
Aspens, Northern New Mexico
Date
1958
Photographer
Ansel Adams
Location
New Mexico, United States
Format
Gelatin silver print
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
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The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (French: Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville)
1950
Robert Doisneau
Paris, France
35 mm
Iron Lung Polio Patients
1950
Unknown
Downey, California, United States
Albert Einstein
1951
Arthur Sasse
New York City, United States
35 mm
Photo 51
May 1952
Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin
London, England
The photograph depicts an X-ray diffraction image providing key to DNA structure.
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Moving to the Suburbs
1952
Eyerman
Lakewood, California, United States
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The Announcement of Stalin's Death
6 March 1953
Dmitri Baltermants
Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
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Camelot
1953
Hy Peskin
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Everest
23 May 1953
Sir Edmund Hillary
Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal
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Atop Mount Everest
23 May 1953
Alfred Gregory
Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal
Roger Bannister
6 May 1954
Norman Potter
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
35 mm
Monroe
9 September 1954
Matty Zimmerman
New York City, United States
The photograph depicts Marilyn Monroe while her white dress blows upwards during a shot for a scene in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch.
Jackie Robinson
1955
Ralph Morse
Bronx, New York, United States
Emmett Till's mother at his funeral.
1955
David Jackson
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Dovima with Elephants
1955
Richard Avedon
Paris, France
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Trolley – New Orleans
1955
Robert Frank
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
35 mm
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Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In
1956
O. Winston Link
Iaeger, West Virginia, United States
Large format
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The New King
1956
Charles Trainor
Miami, Florida, United States
Milk Drop Coronet
1957
Harold E. Edgerton
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
35 mm
Two drops of milk imaged by fast-film stroboscopic photography
First Digital Photo
1957
Russell Kirsch
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Photo composite of two binary scans
Elizabeth Eckford
4 September 1957
Will Counts
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Eckford as one of the Little Rock Nine who faced opposition while attending a formerly segregated high school.
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Aspens, Northern New Mexico
1958
Ansel Adams
New Mexico, United States
Gelatin silver print
The Integrated Circuit
1959
Robert Noyce
United States
First Satellite Image
14 August 1959
Explorer VI
17000 miles above Mexico
· 20th century › 1960s
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Title
Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles
Date
1960
Photographer
Julius Shulman
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Format
Large format
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Title
Birmingham, Alabama
Date
3 May 1963
Photographer
Charles Moore
Location
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Notes
Nonviolent civil rights movement student activists sprayed by high-pressure fire hoses during the Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade.
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Title
Nuit de Noël (Happy Club)
Date
1963
Photographer
Malick Sidibé
Location
Bamako, Mali
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Title
I Have a Dream
Date
28 August 1963
Photographer
Agence France-Presse
Location
Washington, D.C., United States
Format
35 mm
Notes
The photograph depicts Martin Luther King Jr. waving to supporters during the March on Washington, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, considered the most famous American oration of the twentieth century.
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Title
Zapruder film
Date
22 November 1963
Photographer
Abraham Zapruder
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States
Format
35 mm internegative
Notes
The film depicts the most complete view of the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy.
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Title
Pillow Fight
Date
1964
Photographer
Harry Benson
Location
Paris, France
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Title
New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks
Date
1965
Photographer
Lennart Nilsson
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Format
Unknown
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Title
Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II
Date
1965
Photographer
Neil Leifer
Location
Lewiston, Maine, United States
Format
Medium format
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Title
Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp
Date
1965
Photographer
Hugo van Lawick
Location
Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
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Title
Reaching Out
Date
5 October 1966
Photographer
Larry Burrows
Location
Mutter's Ridge, Vietnam
Format
35 mm
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Title
The Mini Moment
Date
3 December 1966
Photographer
Popperfoto
Location
[where?]
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Title
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Date
18 June 1967
Photographer
Jim Marshall
Location
Monterey, California, United States
See article
See article
Title
Flower Power
Date
21 October 1967
Photographer
Bernie Boston
Location
Washington, D.C., United States
Format
35 mm
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Title
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date
4 April 1968
Photographer
Joseph Louw
Location
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
See article
See article
Title
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Date
5 June 1968
Photographer
Bill Eppridge
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Format
35 mm
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Title
Invasion of Prague
Date
August 1968
Photographer
Josef Koudelka
Location
Prague, Czechia
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Title
Bratislava Tank Man
Date
August 1968
Photographer
Ladislav Bielik
Location
Bratislava, Slovakia
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Title
Albino Boy, Biafra
Date
1969
Photographer
Don McCullin
Location
Biafra, West Africa
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Title
Woodstock
Date
August 1969
Photographer
Bill Eppridge
Location
Bethel, New York, United States
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
Guerrillero Heroico
5 March 1960
Alberto Korda
Havana, Cuba
35 mm
The photograph depicts Che Guevara at a funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion. The portrait is commonly displayed as a symbol of student protest and revolutionary movements, and has appeared on clothing and other merchandise.
Massacre at Sharpeville
21 March 1960
Ian Berry
Sharpeville, South Africa
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Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles
1960
Julius Shulman
Los Angeles, California, United States
Large format
Nixon Vs Kennedy TV Debate
26 September 1960
Paul Schutzer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
35 mm
American Spy Pilot Francis Gary Powers
16 November 1960
Carl Mydans
Moscow, Russia
Flavio da Silva
1961
Gordon Parks
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Leap into Freedom
15 August 1961
Peter Leibing
Berlin, Germany
35 mm
The photograph depicts Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier running away over barbed-wire in Berlin.
Thalidomide
1962
Stan Wayman
[where?]
Cuban Missile Crisis
25 October 1962
Neal Boenzi
New York City, United States
Adlai Stevenson II shows aerial photos of Russian missiles in Cuba to the United Nations Security Council in the presence of USSR ambassador Valerian Zorin.
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Birmingham, Alabama
3 May 1963
Charles Moore
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Nonviolent civil rights movement student activists sprayed by high-pressure fire hoses during the Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade.
Woolworth Sit-In
28, May, 1963
Fred Blackwell
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
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Nuit de Noël (Happy Club)
1963
Malick Sidibé
Bamako, Mali
The Burning Monk
11 June 1963
Malcolm Browne
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
35 mm
The photograph depicts the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức protesting the persecution of Buddhists under the government of Ngo Dinh Diem by committing self-immolation.
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I Have a Dream
28 August 1963
Agence France-Presse
Washington, D.C., United States
35 mm
The photograph depicts Martin Luther King Jr. waving to supporters during the March on Washington, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, considered the most famous American oration of the twentieth century.
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Zapruder film
22 November 1963
Abraham Zapruder
Dallas, Texas, United States
35 mm internegative
The film depicts the most complete view of the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy.
Johnson Is Sworn In
22 November 1963
Cecil W. Stoughton
Dallas, Texas, United States
Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field Airport two hours and eight minutes after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas. Jackie Kennedy (right), still in her blood-soaked clothes, looks on.
Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
24 November 1963
Robert H. Jackson
Dallas, Texas, United States
35 mm
The photograph depicts the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby while Oswald was being escorted by police two days after he had assassinated US president John F. Kennedy.
The Beatles Arrive
1964
Harry Benson
New York City, United States
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Pillow Fight
1964
Harry Benson
Paris, France
Selma March
7 March 1965
James H. Karales
Alabama, United States
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New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks
1965
Lennart Nilsson
Stockholm, Sweden
Unknown
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II
1965
Neil Leifer
Lewiston, Maine, United States
Medium format
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Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp
1965
Hugo van Lawick
Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze
1966
Hou Bo
Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Reaching Out
5 October 1966
Larry Burrows
Mutter's Ridge, Vietnam
35 mm
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The Mini Moment
3 December 1966
Popperfoto
[where?]
The Boston Marathon
19 May 1967
Harry Trask
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Runner Kathrine Switzer attacked by race official Jock Semple while running in the 1967 Boston Marathon.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
18 June 1967
Jim Marshall
Monterey, California, United States
Twiggy
1 March 1967
Bernard Gotfryd
London, England, United Kingdom
Unidentified Flying Object
1967
Ralph Ditter
Zanesville, Ohio, United States
Patterson-Gimlin Film
20 October 1967
Roger Patterson
Pacific Northwest, United States
16 mm
See article
Flower Power
21 October 1967
Bernie Boston
Washington, D.C., United States
35 mm
Saigon Execution
1 February 1968
Eddie Adams
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Unknown
Massacre of Villagers in My Lai
16 March 1968
Ronald L. Haeberle
Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam
My Lai
16 March 1968
Ronald L. Haeberle
Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam
35 mm
A group of civilian women and children before being killed by the U.S. Army.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
4 April 1968
Joseph Louw
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
See article
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
5 June 1968
Bill Eppridge
Los Angeles, California, United States
35 mm
Chicago Democratic Convention Protest
August 1968
Perry C. Riddle
United States
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Invasion of Prague
August 1968
Josef Koudelka
Prague, Czechia
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Bratislava Tank Man
August 1968
Ladislav Bielik
Bratislava, Slovakia
1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
16 October 1968
John Dominis
Mexico City, Mexico
Earthrise
24 December 1968
William Anders
The Moon
Medium format
The photograph depicts the Earth and Moon's surface from Apollo 8.
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Albino Boy, Biafra
1969
Don McCullin
Biafra, West Africa
Canadian Seal Hunt
1969
Duncan Cameron
Northumberland Strait, Canada
One Week's Dead
28 May - 3 June 1969
Life Magazine
Various
Aerial View of Woodstock Festival
August 1969
Burk Uzzle
Bethel, New York, United States
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Woodstock
August 1969
Bill Eppridge
Bethel, New York, United States
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon
21 July 1969
Neil Armstrong
Sea of Tranquility, the Moon
70 mm lunar surface camera
Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11, the first crewed Moon landing
Apollo 11 Bootprint
21 July 1969
Buzz Aldrin
Sea of Tranquility, the Moon
70 mm lunar surface camera
· 20th century › 1970s
See article (cropped)
See article (cropped)
Title
Kent State Shootings
Date
4 May 1970
Photographer
John Paul Filo
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States
Format
Unknown
See article
See article
Title
Tomoko and Mother in the Bath
Date
1971
Photographer
W. Eugene Smith
Location
Kyūshū, Japan
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Title
Windblown Jackie
Date
1971
Photographer
Ron Galella
Location
New York City, United States
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Title
Munich Massacre
Date
5 September 1972
Photographer
Kurt Strumpf
Location
Munich, Germany
Format
35 mm
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Title
Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame
Date
1973
Photographer
Doc Edgerton
Location
United States
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Title
Allende's Last Stand
Date
11 September 1973
Photographer
Orlando Lagos
Location
Chile
Format
35 mm
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Title
Nixon Resignation
Date
9 August 1974
Photographer
Rolls Press
Location
Washington, D.C., United States
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Title
Water‐Towers
Date
1974–2009
Photographer
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Location
Various locations across Europe and the United States
Format
Large format
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Title
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari
Date
1975
Photographer
Mervyn Bishop
Location
Daguragu, Northern Territory, Australia
See article
See article
Title
Fire Escape Collapse
Date
22 July 1975
Photographer
Stanley Forman
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Title
Soweto Uprising
Date
16 June 1976
Photographer
Sam Nzima
Location
Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
Format
35 mm
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Title
Untitled Film Stills
Date
1977–1980
Photographer
Cindy Sherman
Location
New York City, United States
Format
Unknown
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Title
Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter
Date
1979
Photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe
Location
New York City, United States
See article
See article
Title
Molotov Man
Date
16 July 1979
Photographer
Susan Meiselas
Location
Estelí, Nicaragua
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
See article (cropped)
Kent State Shootings
4 May 1970
John Paul Filo
Kent, Ohio, United States
Unknown
Elvis Meets Nixon
21 December 1970
Oliver F. Atkins
Washington, D.C., United States
See article
Tomoko and Mother in the Bath
1971
W. Eugene Smith
Kyūshū, Japan
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Windblown Jackie
1971
Ron Galella
New York City, United States
President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong
21 February 1972
Unknown
Beijing, China
Nixon in China
26 February 1972
Oliver F. Atkins
Beijing, China
The Terror of War
8 June 1972
Disputed: either Nick Ut, Nguyễn Thành Nghệ, or Huỳnh Công Phúc
Trảng Bàng, Vietnam
35 mm
The photograph depicts a crowd of Vietnamese people running from napalm, among them a girl (later identified as Phan Thi Kim Phuc) who survived by tearing off her burning clothes.
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Munich Massacre
5 September 1972
Kurt Strumpf
Munich, Germany
35 mm
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame
1973
Doc Edgerton
United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Allende's Last Stand
11 September 1973
Orlando Lagos
Chile
35 mm
Patty Hearst Surveillance
15 April 1974
Hibernia Bank Surveillance Camera
San Francisco, California, United States
Surveillance camera still
Patty Hearst, during the April 1974 Hibernia bank robbery.
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Nixon Resignation
9 August 1974
Rolls Press
Washington, D.C., United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Water‐Towers
1974–2009
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Various locations across Europe and the United States
Large format
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari
1975
Mervyn Bishop
Daguragu, Northern Territory, Australia
Helicopter Evacuation of the US Embassy, Saigon
April 1975
Thai Khac Chuong
Nha Trang, Vietnam
35 mm
See article
Fire Escape Collapse
22 July 1975
Stanley Forman
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Soweto Uprising
16 June 1976
Sam Nzima
Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
35 mm
The Red Planet
21 July 1976
Viking 1
Chryse Planitia, Mars
Boat of No Smiles
1977
Eddie Adams
Gulf of Siam
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Untitled Film Stills
1977–1980
Cindy Sherman
New York City, United States
Unknown
Cambodia
1979
Jay Ullal
Cambodia
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Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter
1979
Robert Mapplethorpe
New York City, United States
Peace Treaty
26 March 1979
Yaakov Saar
Washington, D.C., United States
The triple handshake in the peace treaty signing between Israel and Egypt on the White House lawn
See article
Molotov Man
16 July 1979
Susan Meiselas
Estelí, Nicaragua
Firing Squad in Iran
27 August 1979
Jahangir Razmi
Kurdistan province, Iran
· 20th century › 1980s
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Title
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Date
1980
Photographer
Annie Leibowitz
Location
New York City, United States
Notes
Lennon was murdered hours after the photograph was taken by Leibovitz
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Title
Miracle on Ice
Date
1980
Photographer
Heinz Kluetmeier
Location
Lake Placid, New York, United States
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Title
Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model
Date
1981
Photographer
Helmut Newton
Location
Paris, France
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Title
Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace
Date
1981
Photographer
Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
Location
London, England
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Title
Behind Closed Doors
Date
1982
Photographer
Donna Ferrato
Location
Saddle River, New Jersey, United States
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Title
Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
Date
1982
Photographer
Nancy Burson
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States[citation needed]
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Title
Michael Jordan
Date
1984
Photographer
Co Rentmeester
Location
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Title
Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California
Date
1986
Photographer
Alon Reininger
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Title
The First Heart Transplant in Poland
Date
1 January 1987
Photographer
James L. Stanfield
Location
Zabrze, Poland
See article
See article
Title
Immersion (Piss Christ)
Date
1987
Photographer
Andres Serrano
Location
United States
Format
Medium format
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Title
Monkey Business
Date
1987
Photographer
National Enquirer
Location
Bimini, the Bahamas
See article
See article
Title
Willie Horton
Date
1987
Photographer
Unknown
Location
Maryland, United States
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Title
Air Jordan
Date
1988
Photographer
Walter Iooss
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Format
Medium format
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Title
Untitled (Cowboy)
Date
1989
Photographer
Richard Prince
Location
United States
Format
Composite
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Title
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Date
24 March 1989
Photographer
John S. Lough
Location
Alaska, United States
See article
See article
Title
Tank Man
Date
5 June 1989
Photographer
Jeff Widener
Location
Beijing, China
Notes
The photograph depicts an unidentified protestor confronting column of Chinese military tanks.
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Title
The Wall Falls
Date
November 1989
Photographer
Robert Maass
Location
Berlin, Germany
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Title
Nicolae Ceausescu
Date
December 1989
Photographer
Christopher Pillitz
Location
Romania
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Notes
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1980
Annie Leibowitz
New York City, United States
Lennon was murdered hours after the photograph was taken by Leibovitz
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Miracle on Ice
1980
Heinz Kluetmeier
Lake Placid, New York, United States
Starving Boy and Missionary
1980
Mike Wells
Uganda
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Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model
1981
Helmut Newton
Paris, France
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Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace
1981
Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
London, England
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Behind Closed Doors
1982
Donna Ferrato
Saddle River, New Jersey, United States
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Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
1982
Nancy Burson
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States[citation needed]
Ken Moody and Robert Sherman
1984
Robert Mapplethorpe
New York City, United States
Milk Carton
1984
Robert Frieder
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Michael Jordan
1984
Co Rentmeester
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Hole in the Ozone
3 October 1985
NASA
Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
Challenger Disaster
28 January 1986
Michele McDonald
Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States
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Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California
1986
Alon Reininger
San Francisco, California, United States
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The First Heart Transplant in Poland
1 January 1987
James L. Stanfield
Zabrze, Poland
See article
Immersion (Piss Christ)
1987
Andres Serrano
United States
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Monkey Business
1987
National Enquirer
Bimini, the Bahamas
See article
Willie Horton
1987
Unknown
Maryland, United States
Dukakis and the Tank
1988
Michael E. Samojeden
Detroit, Michigan, United States
The infamous photo of Michael Dukakis taken as part of his presidential campaign.
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Air Jordan
1988
Walter Iooss
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Untitled (Cowboy)
1989
Richard Prince
United States
Composite
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
24 March 1989
John S. Lough
Alaska, United States
See article
Tank Man
5 June 1989
Jeff Widener
Beijing, China
The photograph depicts an unidentified protestor confronting column of Chinese military tanks.
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The Wall Falls
November 1989
Robert Maass
Berlin, Germany
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Nicolae Ceausescu
December 1989
Christopher Pillitz
Romania
· 20th century › 1990s
See article
See article
Title
The Face of AIDS
Date
1990
Photographer
Therese Frare
Location
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Title
Operation Desert Storm
Date
27 February 1991
Photographer
David Turnley
Location
Iraq
Format
35 mm
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Title
Camels in the Oil Fields
Date
1 March 1991
Photographer
Steve McCurry
Location
Burgan field, Kuwait
See article
See article
Title
L.A. Police Beating Rodney King
Date
3 March 1991
Photographer
George Holiday
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
See article
See article
Title
More Demi Moore
Date
1991
Photographer
Annie Leibovitz
Location
Culver City, California, United States
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Title
Famine in Somalia
Date
1992
Photographer
James Nachtwey
Location
Baidoa, Somalia
See article
See article
Title
Dead Troops Talk
Date
1992
Photographer
Jeff Wall
Location
Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan
Format
Large format lightbox transparency
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Title
Bosnia
Date
2 April 1992
Photographer
Ron Haviv
Location
Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Format
35 mm
See article
See article
Title
The Vulture and the Little Girl
Date
March 1993
Photographer
Kevin Carter
Location
Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan)
Format
35 mm
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Title
Oklahoma City Bombing
Date
19 April 1995
Photographer
Charles Porter IV
Location
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Title
Giant Iceberg
Date
1995
Photographer
Dr. Hans Oerter
Location
Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
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Title
Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky
Date
1996
Photographer
Dirck Halstead
Location
Washington, D.C., United States
Format
35 mm
See article
See article
Title
99 Cent
Date
1999
Photographer
Andreas Gursky
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Format
chromogenic print face-mounted to acrylic
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Title
Kosovo Refugees
Date
3 May 1999
Photographer
Carol Guzy
Location
Kukës, Albania
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Title
World Cup Winners
Date
1999
Photographer
Robert Beck
Location
Pasadena, California, United States
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Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
See article
The Face of AIDS
1990
Therese Frare
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Operation Desert Storm
27 February 1991
David Turnley
Iraq
35 mm
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Camels in the Oil Fields
1 March 1991
Steve McCurry
Burgan field, Kuwait
See article
Police Beating Rodney King
3 March 1991
George Holiday
Los Angeles, California, United States
See article
More Demi Moore
1991
Annie Leibovitz
Culver City, California, United States
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Famine in Somalia
1992
James Nachtwey
Baidoa, Somalia
See article
Dead Troops Talk
1992
Jeff Wall
Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan
Large format lightbox transparency
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Bosnia
2 April 1992
Ron Haviv
Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
35 mm
See article
The Vulture and the Little Girl
March 1993
Kevin Carter
Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan)
35 mm
Beauty Out of Damage
1993
Matuschka
United States
Matuschka's controversial self portrait baring her mastectomy combined with her face. The photo covered the New York Times Sunday Magazine and helped spark debate about breast cancer around the US and the world
Rwandan Children
1994
Seamus Conlan and Tara Farrell
Rwanda
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Oklahoma City Bombing
19 April 1995
Charles Porter IV
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Giant Iceberg
1995
Dr. Hans Oerter
Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Pillars of Creation
1995
Hubble Space Telescope / NASA
Low Earth orbit
Wide field and planetary camera
The photograph depicts a region of star formation.
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Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky
1996
Dirck Halstead
Washington, D.C., United States
35 mm
First Cell-Phone Picture
11 June 1997
Philippe Kahn
Santa Cruz, California, United States
Camera phone
The subject is Sophie, the daughter of Philippe Kahn
Chinese Baby
1997
Jeff Abelin
Fuyang, Anhui, China
See article
99 Cent
1999
Andreas Gursky
Los Angeles, California, United States
chromogenic print face-mounted to acrylic
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Kosovo Refugees
3 May 1999
Carol Guzy
Kukës, Albania
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World Cup Winners
1999
Robert Beck
Pasadena, California, United States
· 21st century › 2000s
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Title
Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid
Date
2000
Photographer
Alan Diaz
Location
Miami, Florida, United States
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Title
Surfing Hippos
Date
2000
Photographer
Michael Nichols
Location
Loango National Park, Gabon
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Title
President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks
Date
11 September 2001
Photographer
Doug Mills
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States
See article
See article
Title
The Falling Man
Date
11 September 2001 9:41:15 A.M.
Photographer
Richard Drew
Location
New York City, United States
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Title
New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center
Date
11 September 2001
Photographer
Patrick Witty
Location
New York City, United States
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Title
Father Judge
Date
11 September 2001
Photographer
Shannon Stapleton
Location
New York City, United States
See article
See article
Title
Raising the Flag at Ground Zero
Date
11 September 2001
Photographer
Thomas E. Franklin
Location
New York City, United States
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Title
Toppling the Statue of Saddam Hussein
Date
9 April 2003
Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
Baghdad, Iraq
Format
35 mm
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Title
Sakura Lisi
Date
2004
Photographer
Marcus Bleasdale
Location
Mongbwalu, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Title
Coffin Ban
Date
2004
Photographer
Tami Silicio
Location
Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait
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Title
Iraqi Girl
Date
18 January 2005
Photographer
Chris Hondros
Location
Tal Afar, Iraq
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Title
Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Date
3 September 2005
Photographer
Eric Gay
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Title
Hurricane Katrina
Date
4 September 2005
Photographer
Robert Galbraith
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Title
Hurricane Katrina
Date
2005
Photographer
David Phillip
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Title
Jim Comes Home
Date
2005
Photographer
Todd Heisler
Location
Aurora, Colorado, United States
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Title
The Power of One
Date
1 February 2006
Photographer
Oded Bality
Location
Amona, West Bank
Format
35 mm
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Title
Gorilla in the Congo
Date
July 2007
Photographer
Brent Stirton
Location
Virunga National Park, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Format
35 mm
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Title
Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery
Date
27 May 2007
Photographer
John Moore
Location
Arlington, Virginia, United States
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Title
Homecoming
Date
2007
Photographer
Louie Favorite
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Title
Photo Finish
Date
16 August 2008
Photographer
Heinz Kluetmeier
Location
Beijing, China
Format
35 mm
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Title
Married at Last
Date
2008
Photographer
Marcio Sanchez
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Title
The New First Family
Date
2008
Photographer
Win McNamee
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Title
Funeral of Edwin Cobbin
Date
2009
Photographer
Barbara Davidson
Location
Hawthorne, California, United States
See article
See article
Title
Diego Frazão Torquato
Date
2009
Photographer
Marcos Tristao
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Title
The Death of Neda
Date
2009
Photographer
Unknown
Location
Tehran, Iran
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Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
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Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid
2000
Alan Diaz
Miami, Florida, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Surfing Hippos
2000
Michael Nichols
Loango National Park, Gabon
The First Plane Hits the World Trade Center
11 September 2001
Jules Naudet
New York City, United States
A screenshot of the Jules Naudet footage that is included in the Naudet brothers' documentary film 9/11, originally broadcast on March 10, 2002, on CBS, and later released on DVD.
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President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks
11 September 2001
Doug Mills
Sarasota, Florida, United States
See article
The Falling Man
11 September 2001 9:41:15 A.M.
Richard Drew
New York City, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center
11 September 2001
Patrick Witty
New York City, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Father Judge
11 September 2001
Shannon Stapleton
New York City, United States
See article
Raising the Flag at Ground Zero
11 September 2001
Thomas E. Franklin
New York City, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Toppling the Statue of Saddam Hussein
9 April 2003
Goran Tomasevic
Baghdad, Iraq
35 mm
The Pencil Nebula
5 June 2003
Hubble Space Telescope / NASA
Low Earth orbit
Wide field and planetary camera
The Hooded Man
4 November 2003
Ivan Frederick
Abu Ghraib, Iraq
The photograph depicts Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, an Abu Ghraib prisoner, being subjected to torture.
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Sakura Lisi
2004
Marcus Bleasdale
Mongbwalu, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Coffin Ban
2004
Tami Silicio
Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait
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Iraqi Girl
18 January 2005
Chris Hondros
Tal Afar, Iraq
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Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
3 September 2005
Eric Gay
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Hurricane Katrina
4 September 2005
Robert Galbraith
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Hurricane Katrina
2005
David Phillip
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Jim Comes Home
2005
Todd Heisler
Aurora, Colorado, United States
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The Power of One
1 February 2006
Oded Bality
Amona, West Bank
35 mm
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Gorilla in the Congo
July 2007
Brent Stirton
Virunga National Park, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
35 mm
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Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery
27 May 2007
John Moore
Arlington, Virginia, United States
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Homecoming
2007
Louie Favorite
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Photo Finish
16 August 2008
Heinz Kluetmeier
Beijing, China
35 mm
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Married at Last
2008
Marcio Sanchez
San Francisco, California, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
The New First Family
2008
Win McNamee
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Funeral of Edwin Cobbin
2009
Barbara Davidson
Hawthorne, California, United States
See article
Diego Frazão Torquato
2009
Marcos Tristao
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hair Like Mine
2009
Pete Souza
Washington, D.C., United States
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The Death of Neda
2009
Unknown
Tehran, Iran
· 21st century › 2010s
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Title
First Instagram Photo
Date
16 July 2010
Photographer
Kevin Systrom
Location
Mexico
Format
Cell phone
Notes
Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram), the BBC, Time, and Life magazine claim the photograph to be the first shared on Instagram, however The Economic Times and The Guardian claim the first photograph posted to the social media to be a picture of San Francisco's South Beach harbor by Mike Krieger, also co-founder. Time later claimed the post of the harbor was the first shared.
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Title
9/11 Memorial
Date
11 September 2011
Photographer
Justin Lane
Location
New York City, United States
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Title
Aida
Date
12 March 2012
Photographer
Rodrigo Abd
Location
Idlib, Syria
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Title
Fashion Week
Date
7 September 2012
Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
New York City, United States
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Title
Shootings as Routine
Date
14 December 2012
Photographer
Jessica Hill
Location
Newtown, Connecticut, United States
Notes
The photograph shows Carlee Soto using a phone to ask about her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, after gunman Adam Lanza opened fire on the school, killing 26, including Victoria.
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Title
Sandy Hook
Date
14 December 2012
Photographer
Shannon Hicks
Location
Newtown, Connecticut, United States
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Title
China Social Suicide
Date
27 February 2013
Photographer
Agence France-Presse
Location
Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Title
North Korea
Date
2013
Photographer
David Guttenfelder
Location
Pyongyang, North Korea
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Title
Boston Marathon Bombing
Date
2013
Photographer
John Tlumacki
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
See article
See article
Title
Final Embrace
Date
April 2013
Photographer
Taslima Akhter
Location
Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
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Title
Nairobi Mall Attack
Date
21 September 2013
Photographer
Tyler Hicks
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
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Title
Oscars Selfie
Date
2 March 2014
Photographer
Bradley Cooper
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Format
Cell phone
Notes
The photograph is a selfie taken at the 2014 Oscars. The image shows Ellen DeGeneres, Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong'o, and her brother, Peter Nyong'o.
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Title
Turkey Mine Blast
Date
13 May 2014
Photographer
Bülent Kılıç
Location
Soma, Manisa Province, Turkey
See article
See article
Title
Alan Kurdi
Date
2 September 2015
Photographer
Nilufer Demir
Location
Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey
Format
Unknown
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Title
Turkish Coast Guard Rescue
Date
2016
Photographer
Emin Menguarslan
Location
Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey
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Title
Yarmouk Refugees
Date
26 January 2017
Photographer
UNRWA
Location
Damascus, Syria
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Title
Climate Change
Date
2018
Photographer
Sergio Pitamitz
Location
Svalbard, Norway
Notes
The photograph depicts a polar bear standing on a melting ice sheet.
Image
Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Format
Notes
Cited survey(s)
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
First Instagram Photo
16 July 2010
Kevin Systrom
Mexico
Cell phone
Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram), the BBC, Time, and Life magazine claim the photograph to be the first shared on Instagram, however The Economic Times and The Guardian claim the first photograph posted to the social media to be a picture of San Francisco's South Beach harbor by Mike Krieger, also co-founder. Time later claimed the post of the harbor was the first shared.
The Situation Room
1 May 2011
Pete Souza
Washington, D.C., United States
35 mm
Barack Obama and his national security team, in the White House Situation Room during the killing of Osama bin Laden
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9/11 Memorial
11 September 2011
Justin Lane
New York City, United States
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Aida
12 March 2012
Rodrigo Abd
Idlib, Syria
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Fashion Week
7 September 2012
Lucas Jackson
New York City, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Shootings as Routine
14 December 2012
Jessica Hill
Newtown, Connecticut, United States
The photograph shows Carlee Soto using a phone to ask about her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, after gunman Adam Lanza opened fire on the school, killing 26, including Victoria.
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Sandy Hook
14 December 2012
Shannon Hicks
Newtown, Connecticut, United States
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
China Social Suicide
27 February 2013
Agence France-Presse
Wuhan, Hubei, China
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
North Korea
2013
David Guttenfelder
Pyongyang, North Korea
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Boston Marathon Bombing
2013
John Tlumacki
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
See article
Final Embrace
April 2013
Taslima Akhter
Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
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Nairobi Mall Attack
21 September 2013
Tyler Hicks
Nairobi, Kenya
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Oscars Selfie
2 March 2014
Bradley Cooper
Los Angeles, California, United States
Cell phone
The photograph is a selfie taken at the 2014 Oscars. The image shows Ellen DeGeneres, Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong'o, and her brother, Peter Nyong'o.
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Turkey Mine Blast
13 May 2014
Bülent Kılıç
Soma, Manisa Province, Turkey
See article
Alan Kurdi
2 September 2015
Nilufer Demir
Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey
Unknown
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Turkish Coast Guard Rescue
2016
Emin Menguarslan
Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Yarmouk Refugees
26 January 2017
UNRWA
Damascus, Syria
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph
Climate Change
2018
Sergio Pitamitz
Svalbard, Norway
The photograph depicts a polar bear standing on a melting ice sheet.
· 21st century › 2020s
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Title
The Capitol Under Attack
Date
6 January 2021
Photographer
Tayfun Coşkun
Location
Washington, D.C., United States
Subject
January 6 United States Capitol attack
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Title
Date
Photographer
Location
Subject
Cited survey(s)
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The Capitol Under Attack
6 January 2021
Tayfun Coşkun
Washington, D.C., United States
January 6 United States Capitol attack
Out of Afghanistan
29 August 2021
Alexander Burnett
Kabul, Afghanistan
Chris Donahue, becoming the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan before the Fall of Kabul

References

  1. Talbot's 1835 photograph has also been referred to as Lacock Oriel Window (Latticed Window) or simply Latticed Window.
  2. Also known as Le Noyé (lit. 'The drowned man').
  3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates their copy of Talbot's Haystack as "probably 1841". The National Gallery of Canada
  4. View full collection of photographs at Wikimedia Commons.
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_of_Charles_Deburau_by_Nadar
  5. If the photographer is Mayall, then the location would be London, England as he was present there at the time.
  6. Gustave Le Grey's The Brig is also referred to as Brig on the Water and The Brig in Moonlight.
  7. Robert Howlett's image is referred to as Isambard Kingdom Brunel before the Launch of the Leviathan in The Oxford Compan
  8. Alexander Gardener's 1862 The Dead of Antietam is also referred to as Civil War Battlefield or Bodies on the battlefield
  9. Also titled Cotton Mill Girl. The collection item for the Library of Congress gives a much longer title that includes co
  10. Also titled Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France, 1912 or Automobile Delage, Grand Prix de l'Automobile-Club de F
  11. Also referred to as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut and Abstraction, Shadows of a Veranda, Connecticut.
  12. Also dated to 1913 and 1915.
  13. Originally captioned "test".
  14. Oxford Companion to the Photograph
    https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662716.001.0001/acref-9780198662716-miscMatter-0009
  15. Life
    https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm_index.html
  16. Time
    https://web.archive.org/web/20200219213527/http://100photos.time.com/
  17. Life
    https://www.life.com/history/the-100-most-important-photos-ever/
  18. The Atlantic
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/what-was-the-most-influential-photograph-in-history/546596/
  19. CNN
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