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Dec 19, 2023 · 77. Dovima With Elephants, Paris, 1955. When Richard Avedon photographed Dovima at a Paris circus in 1955 for Harper’s Bazaar, both were already prominent in their fields. She was one of the world’s most famous models, and he was one of the most famous fashion photographers.
- #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.
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- "Earthrise" By William Anders, 1968 / Modified Hasselblad 500 El. Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission.
- "Tank Man" By Jeff Widener, 1989 / Nikon Fe2. Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname of an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests by force.
- Lyle Owerko, 2001 / Fuji 645zi. Filmmaker and photographer Lyle Owerko was in NY during the fateful day back in 2001. So it happened that he had his camera ready and when the tragedy struck, he took some of the photos that soon would become historical and end up as the cover photo of TIME.
- "Burning Monk" By Malcolm Browne, 1963 / Petri. Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June, 1963.
Apr 9, 2024 · 18. Queen Victoria, 1887. 19. Wright Brothers, 1909. 20. Ulysses S. Grant, c. 1870s. Cool and curious vintage pics of people in the olden days. Photography is a relatively recent invention. Although the first true photograph as we know it was taken in 1827, that's obviously just a tiny slice ...
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: The Brig: 1856
Sep 23, 2021 · How They Did It: Almost 60 years later, Frances and Elsie finally admitted that their photos were fakes. Elsie had art training and drew the figures on paper. The girls fixed the drawings to hat pins and stuck them in the ground for the photographs. Then, they destroyed the evidence in the brook.
