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- The Terror Of War, Nick Ut, 1972. The faces of collateral damage and friendly fire are generally not seen. This was not the case with 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc.
- The Burning Monk, Malcolm Browne, 1963. In June 1963, most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map. But there was no forgetting that war-torn Southeast Asian nation after Associated Press photographer Malcolm Browne captured the image of Thich Quang Duc immolating himself on a Saigon street.
- Starving Child And Vulture, Kevin Carter, 1993. Kevin Carter knew the stench of death. As a member of the Bang-Bang Club, a quartet of brave photographers who chronicled apartheid-era South Africa, he had seen more than his share of heartbreak.
- Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, 1932. It’s the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t 840 feet above Manhattan with nothing but a thin beam keeping them aloft.
- #2The Famous Photo The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz | 1907
- Stanley Forman’s Famous Photo Woman Falling from Fire Escape |1975
- Kevin Carter’s Controversial Photo – Starving Child and Vulture | 1993
- Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer Eddie Adams | Saigon Execution | 1968
- Yousuf Karsh’s Iconic Portrait – Winston Churchill | 1941
- Nick UT | The Terror of War | 1972
- Margaret Bourke-White’s Famous Photograph – Gandhi and The Spinning Wheel | 1946
- Lewis Hine’s Famous Image – Cotton Mill Girl | 1908
- Blind Beggar by Paul Strand | 1916
- The Iconic V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt | 1945
One of the most famous photographers of the early 20th Century, Stieglitz fought for photography to be taken as seriously as painting as a valid art form. His pioneering work helped to change the way many viewed photography. His NYC galleries featured many of the best photographers of the day. His iconic image “The Steerage” not only encapsulates w...
Forman was a well-known photographer working for the Boston Herald when he attended the scene of a fire. What began as him documenting the rescue of a young woman and child quickly took a turn when the fire escape collapsed. The pair began to fall and he continued shooting as they were falling. He capturing them swimmingthrough the air. Forman only...
This image is another Pulitzer Prize-winning image. As famous for its social impact, as it is the ethical issues it raised. In 1993 South African photojournalist Kevin Carter traveled to Sudan to photograph the famine. His image of a collapsed child, with a vulture stalking over her, not only caused public outrage because of the horrific subject. I...
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Eddie Adams was on the streets of Saigon on the 1st February 1968 photographing the devastation of the war. Believing he was witnessing a routine execution of a prisoner. He looked through the viewfinder of his camera, to capture the scene. But what he captured was the casual assassination of the prisoner. Thi...
In the wake of the attack on pearl harbor, Churchill arrived in Ottawa, to thank the allies for their assistance. Unaware that a photographer had been commissioned to take his portrait he refused to remove his cigar. Once the photographer was set up he walked towards Churchill, removed the cigar from his mouth and took his famous photograph with th...
25 miles northwest of Saigon, war photographer Nick Ut, captured one of the most harrowing images in the history of the Vietnam War. More often than not, the faces of those who suffer through the collateral damage of war are not seen. But the harrowing image of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phucforced the world to see. A victim of mistakenly dropped napa...
In 1946 Margaret Bourke-White, LIFE magazine’s first female photographer, was offered a rare opportunity to photograph Mahatma Gandhi. This dream opportunity quickly turned into a nightmare. She was made to overcome many challenges before gaining access to India’s ideological leader. Including to spin Gandhi’s famous homespun. After two failed shoo...
Established in 1904, the National Child Labor Committee, existed to fight for the rights of child workers in the USA. They realized that the most powerful tool they had was to show the real face of these children. They believed that seeing these images of child laborwould awaken the citizens to demand change. When Lewis Hine, an investigative photo...
Paul Strand’s groundbreaking image of a blind woman was a candid portrait that departed from the more formal posed portraits of that time. Strand not only captured a moment in time, when a country was changing rapidly, due to an immigration surge. But he also took the first image that paved the way for a new style – street photography.
Alfred Eisenstaedt’s mission through this photograph was to “to find and catch the storytelling moment.” In this post-WWII photograph in Times Square, he did just that. His famous photograph of the soldier and dental nurse has become one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, signifying the joyous end to years of war.
- The Terror Of War, 1972. The faces of collateral damage and friendly fire are generally not seen. This was not the case with 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc.
- The Burning Monk, 1963. Full story on this article. In June 1963, most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map. But there was no forgetting that war-torn Southeast Asian nation after Associated Press photographer Malcolm Browne captured the image of Thich Quang Duc immolating himself on a Saigon street.
- Starving Child And Vulture, 1993. Full story on this article. Kevin Carter knew the stench of death. As a member of the Bang-Bang Club, a quartet of brave photographers who chronicled apartheid-era South Africa, he had seen more than his share of heartbreak.
- Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, 1932. It’s the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t 840 feet above Manhattan with nothing but a thin beam keeping them aloft.
These famous photos are among the most iconic and powerful ever taken. Take a look at 61 images that changed history and shaped the world!
- Savannah Cox
- Family members pass Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at an Albania camp, March 1999.
- Crowds gather at the Berlin Wall, November 1989.
- Family members embrace in the wake of a devastating Alabama tornado, March 2012.
- Thích Quảng Đức lights himself on fire in protest of South Vietnam's Diem government, June 1963.
Research. Famous photography – the most well known pictures and the people who took them. Does a photograph have the power to change the world?
List of photographs considered the most important. 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.
