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—but they are all considered key images in the history of photography.
19th century
editBefore 1850
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras) | 1826 | Nicéphore Niépce | Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France | Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph.[1] | [s 1][s 2][s 3] | |
Windows From Inside South Gallery[a] | August 1835 | William Henry Fox Talbot | Lacock, England, United Kingdom | The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.[3][4] | [s 1] | |
Boulevard du Temple | 1838 | Louis Daguerre | Paris, France | The earliest surviving photograph depicting people: a person working as a shoeshiner and an individual having his shoes shined.[5] | [s 1][s 2] | |
Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man[b] | 18 October 1840 | Hippolyte Bayard | Paris, France[6] | Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process.[7][8] | [s 1] | |
The Haystack | 1844[c] | William Henry Fox Talbot | Lacock, England, United Kingdom[11] | A photograph that appeared in The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published.[12] | [s 1] |
1850s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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The Mime Charles Deburau as Pierrot | 1854 | Nadar | Paris, France | The photograph is part of a series taken during the 1850s.[d] | [s 1] | |
Valley of the Shadow of Death | 23 April 1855 | Roger Fenton | Sevastopol, Crimea | 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.[13][14] | [s 2] | |
Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter | 1855 | Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall[15] | Unknown[e] | [s 1] | ||
The Brig[f] | 1856 | Gustave Le Gray | Normandy, France | [s 1] | ||
Portrait of Nariakira Shimazu | 17 September 1857 | Shiro Ichiki | Satsuma Domain, Japan | Oldest daguerreotype by a Japanese author;[20] first photo designated an Important Cultural Property by the government of Japan in 1999.[21] | [s 1] | |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern[g] | November 1857 | Robert Howlett | London, England | Landmark environmental portraiture and iconography of the Industrial Revolution and 19th century. | [s 1] | |
Two Ways of Life | 1857 | Oscar Gustave Rejlander | Wolverhampton, England[22] | [s 1] | ||
La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene) | 1857 | Camille Silvy | Nogent-le-Rotrou, France | [s 1] | ||
Fading Away | 1858 | Henry Peach Robinson | Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom[23] | [s 1] |
1860s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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Abraham Lincoln | 27 February 1860 | Mathew Brady | New York City, United States | 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.[24] | [s 2][s 4] | |
Cathedral Rock | 1861 | Carleton Watkins | Yosemite National Park, California, United States | [s 2] | ||
The Dead of Antietam[h] | 1862 | Alexander Gardner | Antietam, Maryland, United States | Showing the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam — the deadliest single day in the American Civil War | [s 2][s 3] | |
The Scourged Back | c. 2 April 1863 | McPherson & Oliver | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States | One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement. | [s 3] | |
Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal | 7 July 1865 | Alexander Gardner | Washington, D.C., United States | [s 1] | ||
Portrait of Sir John Herschel | 1867 | Julia Margaret Cameron | Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom | Herschel would later be the godfather to Cameron's firstborn.[25] | [s 1] | |
Beckoning West | 10 May 1869 | Andrew J. Russell | Promontory, Utah, United States | [s 3] |
1870s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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Great Falls of the Yellowstone River | 1871 | William Henry Jackson | Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States | [s 3] | ||
Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly | 1873 | Timothy O'Sullivan | Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, United States | [s 1] | ||
The Horse in Motion | June 1878 | Eadweard Muybridge | Palo Alto, California, United States | 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. | [s 2][s 3] |
1880s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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Water Rats | 1886 | Frank Meadow Sutcliffe | Whitby, England, United Kingdom | [s 1] | ||
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street | 1888 | Jacob Riis | Mulberry Bend, New York City, United States | 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 crimeridden Bend's replacement with Columbus Park.[26][27] | [s 2] |
1890s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen | 1895 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany | The first X-ray, taken by its inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring. | [s 2][s 3] | |
Portrait of Emil Racoviță | 1899 | Louis Boutan | Banyuls-sur-Mer, France | First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed for underwater photography.[28] | [s 3] |
20th century
edit1900s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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A Sea of Steps | 1903 | Frederick H. Evans | Wells Cathedral, England, United Kingdom | One of Evans's finest works in architectural photography. | [s 1] | |
First Flight | 17 December 1903 | John T. Daniels | Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, United States | Captured flight of the first airplane, the Wright Flyer, flown by inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright. | [s 3] | |
The Vanishing Race–Navaho | 1904 | Edward S. Curtis | Arizona, United States[29] | Taken during the cultural assimilation of Native Americans while also popularizing the Vanishing Indian stereotype. | [s 1][s 2] | |
The Pond—Moonlight | 1904 | Edward Steichen | Mamaroneck, New York, United States | Pictorialist hand-colored photograph; only three versions exist. In 2006, a print became the most expensive photo sold.[30][31] | [s 2] | |
The Steerage | 1907 | Alfred Stieglitz | Aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom[32] | Landmark modernist photo depicting immigrants on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II.[33] | [s 1][s 2] | |
Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill[i] | 1908 | Lewis Hine | Newberry, South Carolina, United States | Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed. | [s 2] | |
Cactus Hot Air Balloon | 1909 | Lumière Brothers | Paris, France | [s 3] |
1910s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) |
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Breaker Boys | 1911 | Lewis Hine | Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States | Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed. | [s 3] | |
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | 25 March 1911 | Brown Brothers | New York City, United States | [s 3] | ||
Girl with a Mirror | 1912[35] | Clarence H. White | New York City, United States | [s 1] | ||
Storyville Portrait | 1912 | E.J. Bellocq | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | [s 1] | ||
Une Delage au Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France de 1912 | 1912 | Jacques-Henri Lartigue | Dieppe, France | This photo depicts René Croquet , with his riding mechanic.[j][36][37][38][39] | [s 1] | |
Abstraction, Porch Shadows[k] | 1916[l] | Paul Strand | Salisbury, Connecticut, United States | [s 1] | ||
Blind Woman, New York | 1916 | Paul Strand | New York City, United States | [s 2] |
1920s
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Armco Steel | 1922 | Edward Weston | Middletown, Ohio, United States | [s 1] | ||||||||
Le Violon d'Ingres | 1924 | Man Ray | Paris, France | 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. | [s 1] | |||||||
Movement Study | 1926 | Rudolf Koppitz | Vienna, Austria | [s 1] | ||||||||
See article | Bricklayer | 1928 | August Sander | Cologne, Germany | [s 2] | |||||||
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The Pastry Cook | 1928 | August Sander | Cologne, Germany | [s 1] | |||||||
Woman of Tehuantapec | 1929 | Tina Modotti | Tehuantepec, Mexico | [s 1] |
1930s
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Pepper No. 30 | 2 August 1930 | Edward Weston | Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States | With carefully crafted tones of light, this photo of a pepper emphasizes third-dimensional depth while defying conventional interpretations of form. | [s 3] | |||||||
See article | Larmes | 1930 | Man Ray | Paris, France | The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears. | [s 1][s 3] | ||||||
The Hague | 3 January 1930 | Erich Salomon | The Hague, the Netherlands | [s 2] | ||||||||
Al Capone Mug Shot | 8 May 1930 | Miami Police Department[40] | Miami, United States | [s 3] | ||||||||
See article | Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare | 1932 | Henri Cartier-Bresson | Paris, France | [s 1][s 2] | |||||||
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Brussels | 1932 | Henri Cartier-Bresson | Brussels, Belgium | [s 1] | |||||||
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Couple in Raccoon Coats | 1932 | James Van Der Zee | New York City, United States | [s 2] | |||||||
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Io + gatto (I + Cat) | 1932 | Wanda Wulz | Trieste, Italy | [s 1] | |||||||
Lunch atop a Skyscraper | 20 September 1932 | Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty – see article | New York City, United States | [s 2] | ||||||||
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Girl with a Leica | 1934 | Alexander Rodchenko | Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia | [s 1] | |||||||
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Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally | 1934 | Heinrich Hoffmann | Bückeburg, Germany | [s 2] | |||||||
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Surgeon's photograph | 1934 | Ian Wetherell | Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom | [s 2] | |||||||
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Lady Milbanke as 'Queen of the Amazons' | 1935 | Yevonde Middleton | London, England | [s 1] | |||||||
Migrant Mother | 6 March 1936 | Dorothea Lange | Nipomo, California, United States | The photograph depicts Florence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother during the Great Depression.[41] | [s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4][s 5] | |||||||
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Fort Peck Dam | 1936 | Margaret Bourke-White | Fort Peck, Montana, United States | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
See article | The Falling Soldier | 1936 | Robert Capa | Espejo, Spain | The photograph depicts the death of Republican soldier Federico Borrell García in the Spanish Civil War.[42] | [s 1][s 2][s 3][s 5] | ||||||
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Goldfish Bowl | 1937 | Herbert List | Santorini, Greece | [s 1] | |||||||
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The Louisville Flood | 1937 | Margaret Bourke-White | Louisville, Kentucky, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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The Lambeth Walk | 1937 | Bill Brandt | London, United Kingdom | [s 1] | |||||||
The Hindenburg Disaster | 6 May 1937 | Sam Shere | Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States | The photograph depicts the Hindenburg Zeppelin on fire at the mooring mast of Lakehurst.[43] | [s 2][s 5] | |||||||
Bloody Saturday | 28 August 1937 | H. S. Wong | Shanghai, China | The photograph depicts a baby in bombed-out ruins in Shanghai.[44] | [s 2] | |||||||
See article | Juvisy, France | 1938 | Henri Cartier‐Bresson | Juvisy-sur-Orge, France | [s 1] | |||||||
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Mainbocher Corset | 1939 | Horst P. Horst | Paris, France | [s 1] | |||||||
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Aerial View of Manhattan | 1939 | Margaret Bourke-White | New York City, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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Mulberry Street | 1939 | Weegee | New York City, United States | [s 3] |
1940s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) | ||||||
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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico | 1 November 1941 | Ansel Adams | Hernandez, New Mexico, United States | [s 1] | ||||||||
The Roaring Lion | 30 December 1941 | Yousuf Karsh | Ottawa, Canada | [s 2][s 5] | ||||||||
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Grief | 1942 | Dmitri Baltermants | Kerch, Ukraine | [s 2] | |||||||
The Tetons and the Snake River | 1942 | Ansel Adams | Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States | [s 3] | ||||||||
American Gothic | August 1942 | Gordon Parks | Washington, D.C., United States | [s 1][s 2][s 3] | ||||||||
Betty Grable | 1943 | Frank Powolny | Los Angeles, California, United States | [s 2][s 3] | ||||||||
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The Critic | 1943 | Weegee | New York City, United States | [s 1][s 2] | |||||||
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Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach | 1943 | George Strock | Buna, Papua New Guinea | [s 1][s 3] | |||||||
Warsaw Ghetto boy | 1943 | Unknown | Warsaw, Poland | Originally titled Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt ("Forcibly pulled out of bunkers") | [s 2] | |||||||
Into the Jaws of Death | 6 June 1944 | Robert F. Sargent | Omaha Beach, France | [s 2][s 3] | ||||||||
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The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs) | 6 June 1944 | Robert Capa | Normandy, France | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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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. | [s 3] | ||||||
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Tide Pool, Point Lobos | 1945[45] | Edward Weston | Point Lobos, California, United States | [s 1] | |||||||
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Return to the Philippines | 9 January 1945 | Carl Mydans | Lingayen Gulf, Philippines | [s 3] | |||||||
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima | 23 February 1945 | Joe Rosenthal | Iwo Jima, Japan | The photograph depicts the raising of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.[46] | [s 1][s 2][s 3][s 5] | |||||||
Inside Buchenwald | 16 April 1945 | Unknown | Ettersberg, Germany | [s 3] | ||||||||
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag | 2 May 1945 | Yevgeny Khaldei | Berlin, Germany | The photograph depicts the raising of the Soviet flag during Battle of Berlin.[47] | [s 2] | |||||||
Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki | 9 August 1945 | Charles Levy | Nagasaki, Japan | [s 2][s 4] | ||||||||
V-J Day in Times Square | 14 August 1945 | Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen) | New York City, United States | The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day.[48] | [s 2][s 3][s 5] | |||||||
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Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel | 1946 | Margaret Bourke-White | India | The photograph depicts Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel.[49] | [s 2][s 3] | ||||||
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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.[50] | [s 3] | ||||||
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Route 66 | 1947 | Andreas Feininger | Route 66 in Arizona, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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Barn Owl with Vole | 1947 | Eric Hosking | Suffolk, England, United Kingdom | [s 1] | |||||||
Babe Ruth Bows Out | 13 June 1948 | Nat Fein | New York City, United States | [s 2] | ||||||||
Dalí Atomicus | 1948 | Philippe Halsman | New York City, United States | [s 1][s 2][s 3] | ||||||||
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Country Doctor | 1948 | W. Eugene Smith | Kremmling, Colorado, United States | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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Career Girl | 1948 | Leonard McCombe | New York City, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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Provençal Nude | 1949 | Willy Ronis | Gordes, France | [s 1] | |||||||
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Nuns Watching Television | 1949 | Ralph Morse | Erie, Pennsylvania, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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Clarence Hailey Long | 1949 | Leonard McCombe | Texas, United States | [s 3] |
1950s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | 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 | [s 1] | |||||||
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Albert Einstein | 1951 | Arthur Sasse | New York City, United States | [s 5] | |||||||
Photo 51 | May 1952 | Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin | London, England | The photograph depicts an X-ray diffraction image providing key to DNA structure.[51] | [s 3][s 4] | |||||||
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Moving to the Suburbs | 1952 | J.R. Eyerman | Lakewood, California, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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The Announcement of Stalin's Death | 6 March 1953 | Dmitri Baltermants | Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia | [s 1] | |||||||
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Camelot | 1953 | Hy Peskin | Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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Atop Mount Everest | 1953 | Alfred Gregory | Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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. | [s 5] | |||||||
Emmett Till's mother at his funeral. | 1955 | David Jackson | Chicago, Illinois, United States[52] | [s 2][s 4] | ||||||||
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Dovima with Elephants | 1955 | Richard Avedon | Paris, France | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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Trolley – New Orleans | 1955 | Robert Frank | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | [s 2] | |||||||
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Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In | 1956 | O. Winston Link | Iaeger, West Virginia, United States | [s 1] | |||||||
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The New King | 1956 | Charles Trainor | Miami, Florida, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
Milk Drop Coronet | 1957 | Harold E. Edgerton | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | Two drops of milk imaged by fast-film stroboscopic photography | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
First Digital Photo | 1957 | Russell Kirsch | Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States | [s 3] | ||||||||
Elizabeth Eckford | 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. | [s 3][s 6] | |||||||
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Aspens, Northern New Mexico | 1958 | Ansel Adams | New Mexico, United States | [s 1] |
1960s
editImage | Title | Date | Photographer | Location | Notes | Cited survey(s) | ||||||
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Guerrillero Heroico | 5 March 1960 | Alberto Korda | Havana, Cuba | 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.[53][54][55] | [s 1][s 2][s 3][s 5] | |||||||
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Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles | 1960 | Julius Shulman | Los Angeles, California, United States | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
Leap into Freedom | 15 August 1961 | Peter Leibing | Berlin, Germany | The photograph depicts Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier running away over barbed-wire in Berlin.[56] | [s 2] | |||||||
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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. | [s 2][s 3] | ||||||
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Nuit de Noël (Happy Club) | 1963 | Malick Sidibè | Bamako, Mali | [s 2] | |||||||
The Burning Monk | 11 June 1963 | Malcolm Browne | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 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. | [s 2][s 3][s 6] | |||||||
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I Have a Dream | 28 August 1963 | Agence France-Presse | Washington, D.C., United States | 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.[57] | [s 3] | ||||||
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Zapruder film | 22 November 1963 | Abraham Zapruder | Dallas, Texas, United States | The film depicts the most complete view of the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy.[58] | [s 2][s 3] | ||||||
Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald | 24 November 1963 | Robert H. Jackson | Dallas, Texas, United States | 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.[59] | [s 3][s 5] | |||||||
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Pillow Fight | 1964 | Harry Benson | Paris, France | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp | 1965 | Hugo van Lawick | Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania | [s 6] | |||||||
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New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks | 1965 | Lennart Nilsson | Stockholm, Sweden[60] | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston | 1965 | Neil Leifer | Lewiston, Maine, United States | [s 2][s 3][s 6] | |||||||
Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze | 1966 | Hou Bo | Wuhan, Hubei, China[61] | [s 1][s 2] | ||||||||
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Reaching Out | 5 October 1966 | Larry Burrows | Mutter's Ridge, Vietnam | [s 3] | |||||||
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The Mini Moment | 3 December 1966 | Popperfoto | [where?] | [s 3] | |||||||
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 18 June 1967 | Jim Marshall | Monterey, California, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
See article | Flower Power | 21 October 1967 | Bernie Boston | Washington D.C., United States | [s 3] | |||||||
Saigon Execution | 1 February 1968 | Eddie Adams | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | [s 1][s 2][s 3][s 5][s 4][s 6] | ||||||||
Massacre of Villagers in My Lai | 16 March 1968 | Ronald L. Haeberle | Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam | [s 1] | ||||||||
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. | 4 April 1968 | Joseph Louw | Memphis, Tennessee, United States | [s 3][s 6] | |||||||
See article | Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy | 5 June 1968 | Bill Eppridge | Los Angeles, California, United States | [s 3][s 6] | |||||||
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Invasion of Prague | August 1968 | Josef Koudelka | Prague, Czechia | [s 2] | |||||||
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Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics | 16 October 1968 | John Dominis | Mexico City, Mexico | [s 2][s 3][s 5][s 6] | |||||||
Earthrise | 24 December 1968 | William Anders | The Moon | The photograph depicts the Earth and Moon's surface from Apollo 8.[62] | [s 2][s 3][s 4] | |||||||
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Albino Boy, Biafra | 1969 | Don McCullin | Biafra | [s 2] | |||||||
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Woodstock | August 1969 | Bill Eppridge | Bethel, New York, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon | 21 July 1969 | Neil Armstrong | Sea of Tranquility, the Moon | [s 1][s 2][s 3] | ||||||||
Apollo 11 Bootprint | 21 July 1969 | Buzz Aldrin | Sea of Tranquility, the Moon | [s 1][s 2][s 3] | ||||||||
See article | Altamont | 6 December 1969 | Unknown | Altamont Speedway, California, United States | [s 3] |
1970s
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See article (cropped) | Kent State Shootings | 4 May 1970 | John Paul Filo | Kent, Ohio, United States | [s 2][s 3][s 4][s 5] | |||||||
Elvis Meets Nixon | 21 December 1970 | Oliver F. Atkins | Washington D.C., United States | [s 3] | ||||||||
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Windblown Jackie | 1971 | Ron Galella | New York City, United States | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
Nixon in China | 26 February 1972 | Oliver F. Atkins | Beijing, China | [s 3] | ||||||||
Napalm attack[m] | 8 June 1972 | Nick Ut | Trảng Bàng, Vietnam | 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.[63] | [s 1][s 2][s 4][s 5][s 6] | |||||||
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Munich Massacre | 5 September 1972 | Kurt Strumpf | Munich, Germany | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame | 1973 | Doc Edgerton | United States | [s 1] | |||||||
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Allende's Last Stand | 1973 | Orlando Lagos | Chile | [s 2] | |||||||
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Water‐Towers | 1974–2009 | Bernd and Hilla Becher | Various locations across Europe and the United States[64] | [s 1] | |||||||
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Nixon Resignation | 9 August 1974 | Rolls Press | Washington D.C., United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari | 1975 | Mervyn Bishop | Daguragu, Northern Territory, Australia | [s 1] | |||||||
See article | Fire Escape Collapse | 22 July 1975 | Stanley Forman | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | [s 2] | |||||||
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Soweto Uprising | 16 June 1976 | Sam Nzima | Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa | [s 2] | |||||||
The Red Planet | 21 July 1976 | Viking 1 | Chrysa Planitia, Mars[65] | [s 3] | ||||||||
Boat of No Smiles | 1977 | Eddie Adams | Gulf of Siam | [s 2] | ||||||||
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Untitled Film Stills | 1977–1980 | Cindy Sherman | New York City, United States[66] | [s 2][s 4] | |||||||
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Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter | 1979 | Robert Mapplethorpe | New York City, United States[67] | [s 2] | |||||||
See article | Molotov Man | 16 July 1979[68] | Susan Meiselas | Estelí, Nicaragua[69] | [s 2] | |||||||
Firing Squad in Iran | 27 August 1979 | Jahangir Razmi | Kurdistan province, Iran[70] | [s 2] |
1980s
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono | 1980 | Annie Leibowitz | New York City, United States | [s 1] | |||||||
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Miracle on Ice | 1980 | Heinz Kluetmeier | Lake Placid, New York, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model | 1981 | Helmut Newton | Paris, France | [s 1] | |||||||
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Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace | 1981 | Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield | London, England | [s 3] | |||||||
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Behind Closed Doors | 1982 | Donna Ferrato | Saddle River, New Jersey, United States | [s 2] | |||||||
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Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women) | 1982 | Nancy Burson | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States[citation needed] | [s 2] | |||||||
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Michael Jordan | 1984 | Co Rentmeester | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States | [s 2] | |||||||
Hole in the Ozone | 3 October 1985 | NASA | Greenbelt, Maryland, United States | [s 3] | ||||||||
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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 | [s 6] | |||||||
See article | Immersion (Piss Christ) | 1987 | Andres Serrano | United States | [s 1][s 2] | |||||||
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The First Heart Transplant in Poland | 1 January 1987 | James L. Stanfield | Zabrze, Poland | [s 6] | |||||||
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Monkey Business | 1987 | National Enquirer | Bimini, the Bahamas[71] | [s 3] | |||||||
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Air Jordan | 1988 | Walter Iooss | Chicago, Illinois, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
See article | Tank Man | 5 June 1989 | Jeff Widener | Beijing, China | The photograph depicts an unidentified protestor confronting column of Chinese military tanks. | [s 2][s 3][s 5][s 6] | ||||||
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Untitled (Cowboy) | 1989 | Richard Prince | United States | [s 2] | |||||||
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The Wall Falls | 1989 | Robert Maass | Berlin, Germany | [s 3] |
1990s
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The Face of AIDS | 1990 | Therese Frare | Columbus, Ohio, United States | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
See article | More Demi Moore | 1991 | Annie Leibovitz | Culver City, California, United States[72] | [s 2] | |||||||
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Operation Desert Storm | 27 February 1991 | David Turnley | Iraq | [s 6] | |||||||
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Camels in the Oil Fields | 1 March 1991 | Steve McCurry | Burgan field, Kuwait[73] | [s 6] | |||||||
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Famine in Somalia | 1992 | James Nachtwey | Baidoa, Somalia[74] | [s 2] | |||||||
See article | Dead Troops Talk | 1992 | Jeff Wall | Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan | [s 1] | |||||||
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Bosnia | 2 April 1992 | Ron Haviv | Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina | [s 2] | |||||||
See article | The Vulture and the Little Girl | March 1993 | Kevin Carter | Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan) | [s 2][s 5][s 6] | |||||||
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Oklahoma City Bombing | 19 April 1995 | Charles Porter IV | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States | [s 5][s 6] | |||||||
Pillars of Creation | 1995 | Hubble Space Telescope / NASA | Low Earth orbit | The photograph depicts a region of star formation.[75] | [s 2][s 3] | |||||||
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Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky | 1996 | Dirck Halstead | Washington, D.C., United States | [s 3][s 5] | |||||||
First Cell-Phone Picture | 11 June 1997 | Philippe Kahn | Santa Cruz, California, United States | [s 2] | ||||||||
See article | 99 Cent | 1999 | Andreas Gursky | Los Angeles, California, United States | [s 2] | |||||||
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Kosovo Refugees | 3 May 1999 | Carol Guzy | Kukës, Albania[76] | [s 6] | |||||||
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World Cup Winners | 1999 | Robert Beck | Pasadena, California, United States | [s 3] |
21st century
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Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid | 2000 | Alan Diaz | Miami, Florida, United States | [s 5][s 6] | |||||||
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Surfing Hippos | 2000 | Michael Nichols | Loango National Park, Gabon | [s 2] | |||||||
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President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks | 11 September 2001 | Doug Mills | Sarasota, Florida, United States[77] | [s 6] | |||||||
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New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center | 11 September 2001 | Patrick Witty | New York City, United States | [s 3][s 6] | |||||||
See article | The Falling Man | 11 September 2001 | Richard Drew | New York City, United States | [s 2][s 5][s 6] | |||||||
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Father Judge | 11 September 2001 | Shannon Stapleton | New York City, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
See article | Raising the Flag at Ground Zero | 11 September 2001 | Thomas E. Franklin | New York City, United States | [s 5][s 6] | |||||||
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Sakura Lisi | 2004 | Marcus Bleasdale | Mongbwalu, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo | [s 6] | |||||||
The Hooded Man | 2004 | Ivan Frederick | Abu Ghraib, Iraq | The photograph depicts Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, an Abu Ghraib prisoner, being subjected to torture.[78] | [s 2][s 3][s 5] | |||||||
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Coffin Ban | 2004 | Tami Silicio | Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait[79] | [s 2] | |||||||
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Iraqi Girl | 18 January 2005 | Chris Hondros | Tal Afar, Iraq | [s 2][s 6] | |||||||
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Hurricane Katrina Evacuation | 3 September 2005 | Eric Gay | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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Hurricane Katrina | 4 September 2005 | Robert Galbraith | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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Hurricane Katrina | 2005 | David Phillip | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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Jim Comes Home | 2005 | Todd Heisler | Aurora, Colorado, United States[80] | [s 6] | |||||||
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The Power of One | 1 February 2006 | Oded Bality | Amona, West Bank | [s 6] | |||||||
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Gorilla in the Congo | 2007 | Brent Stirton | Virunga National Park, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo[81] | [s 2] | |||||||
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Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery | 27 May 2007 | John Moore | Arlington, Virginia, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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Homecoming | 2007 | Louie Favorite | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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Photo Finish | 16 August 2008 | Heinz Kluetmeier | Beijing, China | [s 3] | |||||||
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Married at Last | 2008 | Marcio Sanchez | San Francisco, California, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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The New First Family | 2008 | Win McNamee | Chicago, Illinois, United States | [s 3] | |||||||
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Funeral of Edwin Cobbin | 2009 | Barbara Davidson | Hawthorne, California, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
See article | Diego Frazão Torquato | 2009 | Marcos Tristao | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | [s 6] | |||||||
Hair Like Mine | 2009 | Pete Souza | Washington, D.C., United States | [s 6] | ||||||||
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The Death of Neda | 2009 | Unknown | Tehran, Iran | [s 2] |
2010s
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First Instagram Photo[n] | 16 July 2010 | Kevin Systrom | Mexico | Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram), the BBC, Time, and Life magazine claim the photograph to be the first shared on Instagram,[82][83] 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.[84][85] Time later claimed the post of the harbor was the first shared.[86] | [s 3] | ||||||
The Situation Room | 1 May 2011 | Pete Souza | Washington, D.C., United States | The photograph depicts U.S. president Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving live updates from Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. | [s 2][s 3][s 5] | |||||||
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9/11 Memorial | 11 September 2011 | Justin Lane | New York City, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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Aida | 12 March 2012 | Rodrigo Abd | Idlib, Syria | [s 6] | |||||||
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Fashion Week | 7 September 2012 | Lucas Jackson | New York City, United States | [s 6] | |||||||
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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. | [s 6] | ||||||
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Sandy Hook | 14 December 2012 | Shannon Hicks | Newtown, Connecticut, United States | [s 3][s 5] | |||||||
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China Social Suicide | 27 February 2013 | Agence France-Presse | Wuhan, Hubei, China | [s 6] | |||||||
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North Korea | 2013 | David Guttenfelder | Pyongyang, North Korea | [s 2] | |||||||
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Boston Marathon Bombing | 2013 | John Tlumacki | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | [s 5][s 6] | |||||||
See article | Final Embrace | April 2013 | Taslima Akhter | Savar Upazila, Bangladesh | [s 6] | |||||||
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Nairobi Mall Attack | 21 September 2013 | Tyler Hicks | Nairobi, Kenya | [s 6] | |||||||
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Oscars Selfie | 2 March 2014 | Bradley Cooper | Los Angeles, California, United States | 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. | [s 2][s 3] | ||||||
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Turkey Mine Blast | 13 May 2014 | Bülent Kılıç | Soma, Manisa Province, Turkey | [s 6] | |||||||
Yarmouk Refugees | 2014 | UNRWA | Damascus, Syria | [s 6] | ||||||||
See article | Alan Kurdi | 2 September 2015 | Nilufer Demir | Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey | [s 2][s 3][s 6] | |||||||
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Turkish Coast Guard Rescue | 2016 | Emin Menguarslan | Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey | [s 6] | |||||||
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Climate Change | 2018 | Sergio Pitamitz | Svalbard, Norway | The photograph depicts a polar bear standing on a melting ice sheet. | [s 3] |
2020s
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The Capitol Under Attack | 6 January 2021 | Tayfun Coskun | Washington, D.C., United States | The photograph depicts the January 6 United States Capitol attack, in which a crowd of the supporters of then-president Donald Trump broke into the United States Capitol to prevent the presidential electoral vote count from certifying opposing candidate Joe Biden as president-elect. | [s 3] | ||||||
Out of Afghanistan | 29 August 2021 | Alexander Burnett | Kabul, Afghanistan | The photograph depicts Chris Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan during the 2021 United States withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan, leading to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. | [s 3] |
See also
edit- List of most expensive photographs
- Lists of photographs
- 100 Photographs that Changed the World, 2003 book by the editors of Life
- Fine-art photography
- History of the camera
- History of photography
- Monkey selfie copyright dispute
- People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph
- Pulitzer Prize for Photography
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
- Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
- Timeline of first images of Earth from space
- World Press Photo of the Year
Notes
edit- ^ Talbot's 1835 photograph has also been referred to as Lacock Oriel Window (Latticed Window)[s 1] or simply Latticed Window.[2]
- ^ Also known as Le Noyé (lit. 'The drowned man').
- ^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates their copy of Talbot's Haystack as "probably 1841".[9] The National Gallery of Canada dates it to April 1844.[10]
- ^ View full collection of photographs at Wikimedia Commons.
- ^ If the photographer is Mayall, then the location would be London, England as he was present there at the time.[16]
- ^ Gustave Le Grey's The Brig is also referred to as Brig on the Water[17][18] and The Brig in Moonlight.[19]
- ^ Robert Howlett's image is referred to as Isambard Kingdom Brunel before the Launch of the Leviathan in The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.
- ^ Alexander Gardener's 1862 The Dead of Antietam is also referred to as Civil War Battlefield or Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam.
- ^ Also titled Cotton Mill Girl. The collection item for the Library of Congress gives a much longer title that includes commentary from the photographer: A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her "sides" like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was pathetic, "She just happened in." Then a moment later he repeated the information. The mills appear to be full of youngsters that "just happened in," or " are helping sister." Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina.[34]
- ^ Also titled Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France, 1912 or Automobile Delage, Grand Prix de l'Automobile-Club de France, Le Tréport, 26 juin 1912 Sources including the Oxford University Press, erronously claimed this photograph to be taken in 1912 (as dated by Lartique himself later) when it took place in 1913. The driver, identified as René Croquet, raced as No. 20 in 1912; he was driving a Théophile Schneider in both races, neither in a Delage. There was no No. 6 in the 1912 race.
- ^ Also referred to as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut and Abstraction, Shadows of a Veranda, Connecticut.
- ^ Also dated to 1913 and 1915.
- ^ Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut's 1972 Napalm attack is also referred to as The Terror of War, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, or Vietnam children after napalm attack.
- ^ Originally captioned "test".
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