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

Before 1850


Title	Date	Photographer	Location	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	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 a person: an individual having their 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 which appeared in The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published.^[12]	^{[s 1]}

1850s

Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
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, United Kingdom	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

Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
Abraham Lincoln	27 February 1860	Mathew Brady	New York, New York, 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]}
Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph	13 October 1860	James Wallace Black	Boston, Massachusetts, United States	The oldest aerial photo was actually taken by Nadar in 1858 and showed a panorama of Paris, but is now lost. Nadar's other surviving photograph of Paris dates from 1866.^{[citation needed]}
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		^{[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

Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
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

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	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

Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
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]}
Shroud of Turin negative	1898	Secondo Pia	Turin, Italy	Photographic negative of an ancient cloth relic shows details of a scourged and crucified human body
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

1900s

Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
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

Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
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, New York, United States		^{[s 3]}
Girl with a Mirror	1912^[35]	Clarence H. White	New York, New York, 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 [fr], 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, New York, United States		^{[s 2]}

1920s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

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]}

The Pastry Cook

1928

August Sander

Cologne, Germany

^{[s 1]}

Woman of Tehuantapec

1929

Tina Modotti

Tehuantepec, Mexico

^{[s 1]}

1930s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

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]}

Brussels

1932

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Brussels, Belgium

^{[s 1]}

Couple in Raccoon Coats

1932

James Van Der Zee

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 2]}

Io + gatto
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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, New York, United States

^{[s 2]}

Girl with a Leica
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Girl with a Leica

1934

Alexander Rodchenko

Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia

^{[s 1]}

Adolf Hitler ascending stairs during rally, Buckeberg, 1934
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Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally

1934

Heinrich Hoffmann

Bückeburg, Germany

^{[s 2]}

Surgeon's Photograph
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Surgeon's Photograph

1934

Ian Wetherell

Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom

^{[s 2]}

THE LADY MILBANKE AS PENTHESILEA, QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS
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Lady Milbanke as 'Queen of the Amazons'

1935

Yevonde Middleton

London, England, United Kingdom

^{[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]}

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]}

Goldfish Bowl, Santorini, Greece
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Goldfish Bowl

1937

Herbert List

Santorini, Greece

^{[s 1]}

The Louisville Flood
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The Louisville Flood

1937

Margaret Bourke-White

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

^{[s 3]}

Dancing the Lambeth Walk
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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]}

Mainbocher Corset
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Mainbocher Corset

1939

Horst P. Horst

Paris, France

^{[s 1]}

A DC-4 FLYING OVER NEW YORK CITY
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Aerial View of Manhattan

1939

Margaret Bourke-White

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 3]}

"Fiesta" turns into tragedy, body of dead man, lies on street, Mulberry St., Little Italy
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Mulberry Street

1939

Weegee

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 3]}

1940s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

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]}

Grief
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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]}

The Critic
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The Critic

1943

Weegee

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}

Bodies of three dead American soldiers lying in the sand on shoreline near half sunken landing craft on Buna Beach
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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

^{[s 2]}

Into the Jaws of Death

6 June 1944

Robert F. Sargent

Omaha Beach, France

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

"MAGNIFICENT 11": ROBERT CAPA
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The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs)

6 June 1944

Robert Capa

Normandy, France

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

Residents wander cleared streets bisecting the ruins of buildings reduced to piles of rubble by the atomic bomb, dropped a few months earlier
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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]}

Tide Pool, Point Lobos
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Tide Pool, Point Lobos

1945^[45]

Edward Weston

Point Lobos, California, United States

^{[s 1]}

General Douglas MacArthur lands in the Philippines at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon, January 9, 1945
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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, New York, 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]}

Mahatma Gandhi Spinning
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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]}

THE GREAT ISAIAH SCROLL
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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]}

Cumulus clouds billow above a stretch of Route 66 in Arizona
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Route 66

1947

Andreas Feininger

Route 66 in Arizona, United States

^{[s 3]}

Barn Owl flying into a Suffolk Barn, taken using a high speed flash system with a flash duration of 1/10,000th.
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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, New York, United States

^{[s 2]}

Dalí Atomicus

1948

Philippe Halsman

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

Country Doctor
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Country Doctor

1948

W. Eugene Smith

Kremmling, Colorado, United States

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

GWYNED FILLING
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Career Girl

1948

Leonard McCombe

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 3]}

Le nu provençal
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Provençal Nude

1949

Willy Ronis

Gordes, France

^{[s 1]}

Sisters at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Erie, Penn., watched a program on a new local TV station
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Nuns Watching Television

1949

Ralph Morse

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

^{[s 3]}

Portrait of Texas Cowboy Clarence Hailey Long, 1949
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Clarence Hailey Long

1949

Leonard McCombe

Texas, United States

^{[s 3]}

1950s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

Le Basier du Trottoir
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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]}

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). – SASSE, Arthur (1908-1975). Photograph signed in the upper right margin (“A Einstein ‘51”), [Princeton, 1951].
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Albert Einstein

1951

Arthur Sasse

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 5]}

See article

Photo 51

May 1952

Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin

London, England, United Kingdom

The photograph depicts an X-ray diffraction image providing key to DNA structure.^[51]

^{[s 3]}^{[s 4]}

Los Angeles Development Boom
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Moving To The Suburbs

1952

J.R. Eyerman

Lakewood, California, United States

^{[s 3]}

Announcement of the Death of Stalin, Dynamo Factory, Moscow, March 6, 1953
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The Announcement of Stalin's Death

6 March 1953

Dmitri Baltermants

Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia

^{[s 1]}

Jacqueline Bouvier sitting with her fiance John F. Kennedy on deck of sailboat, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Camelot

1953

Hy Peskin

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

ED HILLARY AND TENZING NORGAY ON SOUTH EAST RIDGE, APPROACHING THE FINAL CAMP AT 8500M
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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, New York, 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]}

Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris
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Dovima with Elephants

1955

Richard Avedon

Paris, France

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

Trolley--New Orleans
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Trolley – New Orleans

1955

Robert Frank

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

^{[s 2]}

Hot Shot east Bound, Iaeger Drive In, Iaeger, West Virginia
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Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In

1956

O. Winston Link

Iaeger, West Virginia, United States

^{[s 1]}

Elvis on stage
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The New King

1956

Charles Trainor

Miami, Florida, United States

^{[s 3]}

Milk Drop Coronet
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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]}

Aspens, Northern New Mexico
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Aspens, Northern New Mexico

1958

Ansel Adams

New Mexico, United States

^{[s 1]}

1960s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

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]}

Julius Shulman - Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, California
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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]}

Firefighters aiming high-pressure water hoses at civil rights demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama
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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]}

Nuit de Noël
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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]}

TOPSHOT-US-CIVIL RIGHTS-MARTIN LUTHER KING-MARCH ON WASHINGTON
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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]}

Abraham Zapruder film
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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]}

Beatles' Pillow Fight, George V Hotel, Paris
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Pillow Fight

1964

Harry Benson

Paris, France

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

A young chimp named Flint reaches for ethologist Jane Goodall. Flint was the first infant born in Gombe after Jane’s arrival.
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Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp

1965

Hugo van Lawick

Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania

^{[s 6]}

Living 18-week-old fetus shown inside its amniotic sac — placenta is seen at right
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New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks

1965

Lennart Nilsson

Stockholm, Sweden^[60]

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston
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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]}

Reaching Out, Mutter Ridge, Nui Cay Tri, October 5, 1966, printed 1987
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Reaching Out

5 October 1966

Larry Burrows

Mutter's Ridge, Vietnam

^{[s 3]}

Twiggy In Pink
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The Mini Moment

3 December 1966

Popperfoto

^[where?]

^{[s 3]}

Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967
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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]}

Body of Martin Luther King Jr., Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee
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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 Kennedy

5 June 1968

Bill Eppridge

Los Angeles, California, United States

^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}

Warsaw Pact troops invasion. Prague, Czechoslovakia. August, 1968
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Invasion of Prague

August 1968

Josef Koudelka

Prague, Czechia

^{[s 2]}

Black Power Salute 1968
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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]}

Biafra
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Albino Boy, Biafra

1969

Don McCullin

Biafra

^{[s 2]}

Woodstock Festival #1
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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]}

Rolling Stones At Altamont
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Altamont

6 December 1969

Unknown

Altamont Speedway, California, United States

^{[s 3]}

1970s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

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]}

Jackie Onassis, New York
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Windblown Jackie

1971

Ron Galella

New York, New York, 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]}

Germany Israel Olympics Attack
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Munich Massacre

5 September 1972

Kurt Strumpf

Munich, Germany

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

The Blue Marble

7 December 1972

Either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmidt

Translunar space

^{[citation needed]}

Bullet through Candle Flame
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Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame

1973

Doc Edgerton

United States

^{[s 1]}

1974 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year
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Allende's Last Stand

1973

Orlando Lagos

Chile

^{[s 2]}

Water Towers (Wassertürme)
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Water‐Towers

1974–2009

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Various locations across Europe and the United States^[64]

^{[s 1]}

9th AUGUST 1974 Washington D. C. USA. President Richard Nixon of the United States gives the V-sign with both hands before boarding the Presidential helicopter to leave the White House for the last time after his resignation speech following the Watergat
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Nixon Resignation

9 August 1974

Rolls Press

Washington D.C., United States

^{[s 6]}

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hand of traditional land owner Vincent Lingiari
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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]}

The death of Hector Pieterson
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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]}

Sisters
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Sisters

1976

Jim Britt

^{[citation needed]}

Boat of No Smiles

1977

Eddie Adams

Gulf of Siam

^{[s 2]}

Untitled Film Stills
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Untitled Film Stills

1977–1980

Cindy Sherman

New York, New York, United States^[66]

^{[s 2]}^{[s 4]}

Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter
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Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter

1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

New York, New York, 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

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

Yoko Ono; John Lennon
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono

1980

Annie Leibowitz

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 1]}

Usa Hockey, 1980 Winter Olympics Sports Illustrated Cover
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Miracle on Ice

1980

Heinz Kluetmeier

Lake Placid, New York, United States

^{[s 6]}

Self-Portrait with Wife and Models, 'Vogue' Studios, Paris, 1980
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Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model

1981

Helmut Newton

Paris, France

^{[s 1]}

Princess of Wales with her Bridesmaids
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Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace

1981

Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield

London, England, United Kingdom

^{[s 3]}

Bengt hits Elisabeth for being a disobedient wife and hiding drugs, which she did hoping to save their marriage, Saddle River, New Jersey
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Behind Closed Doors

1982

Donna Ferrato

Saddle River, New Jersey, United States

^{[s 2]}

Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
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Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)

1982

Nancy Burson

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States^{[citation needed]}

^{[s 2]}

Michael Jordan
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Michael Jordan

1984

Co Rentmeester

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

^{[s 2]}

See article

Afghan Girl

1984

Steve McCurry

Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

^{[citation needed]}

Hole in the Ozone

3 October 1985

NASA

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

^{[s 3]}

Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California
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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]}

1988 Photo Contest, Science & Technology, 2nd prize
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The First Heart Transplant in Poland

1 January 1987

James L. Stanfield

Zabrze, Poland

^{[s 6]}

Gary Hart & Donna Rice
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Monkey Business

1987

National Enquirer

Bimini, the Bahamas^[71]

^{[s 3]}

'The Slam Dunk' Michael Jordan, Chicago, IL 1988
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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]}

Untitled (cowboy)
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Untitled (Cowboy)

1989

Richard Prince

United States

^{[s 2]}

BerlinWall
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The Wall Falls

1989

Robert Maass

Berlin, Germany

^{[s 3]}

1990s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

1991 Photo Contest, General News, 2nd prize
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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]}

1992 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year
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Operation Desert Storm

27 February 1991

David Turnley

Iraq

^{[s 6]}

1992 Photo Contest, General News, 1st prize
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Camels in the Oil Fields

1 March 1991

Steve McCurry

Burgan field, Kuwait^[73]

^{[s 6]}

Pale Blue Dot

1991

Voyager 1

Trans-Neptunian region; 3,700,000,000 miles (6.0×10⁹ km) from Earth

The photograph is a part of Voyager 1's Family Portrait.

^{[citation needed]}

Famine in Somalia
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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]}

The Photograph
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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]}

The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Spot News Photography
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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]}

Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
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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]}

Agim Shala
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Kosovo Refugees

3 May 1999

Carol Guzy

Kukës, Albania^[76]

^{[s 6]}

USA Brandi Chastain, 1999 World Cup
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World Cup Winners

1999

Robert Beck

Pasadena, California, United States

^{[s 3]}

21st century

2000s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

2001 Photo Contest, Spot News, 2nd prize
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Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid

2000

Alan Diaz

Miami, Florida, United States

^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}

Surfing Hippos
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Surfing Hippos

2000

Michael Nichols

Loango National Park, Gabon

^{[s 2]}

Sept 11 Bush Classroom
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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]}

The Moment The Towers Fell
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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, New York, United States

^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}

See article

The Falling Man

11 September 2001

Richard Drew

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 2]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}

Father Mychal Judge is carried from the rubble of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
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Father Judge

11 September 2001

Shannon Stapleton

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 6]}

See article

Raising the Flag at Ground Zero

11 September 2001

Thomas E. Franklin

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}

The washing of the body at the burial of the eight-month-old Sakura Lisi
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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]}

Coffin ban
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Coffin Ban

2004

Tami Silicio

Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait^[79]

^{[s 2]}

U.S. Troops Mistakenly Kill Iraqi Civilians
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Iraqi Girl

18 January 2005

Chris Hondros

Tal Afar, Iraq

^{[s 2]}^{[s 6]}

HURRICANE KATRINA REFUGEES
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Hurricane Katrina Evacuation

3 September 2005

Eric Gay

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

^{[s 6]}

A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans
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Hurricane Katrina

4 September 2005

Robert Galbraith

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

^{[s 6]}

Residents are rescued by helicopter from
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Hurricane Katrina

2005

David Phillip

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

^{[s 3]}

Final Salute
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Jim Comes Home

2005

Todd Heisler

Aurora, Colorado, United States^[80]

^{[s 6]}

Oded Balilty of Associated Press
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The Power of One

1 February 2006

Oded Bality

Amona, West Bank

^{[s 6]}

2008 Photo Contest, Contemporary Issues, 1st prize
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Gorilla in the Congo

2007

Brent Stirton

Virunga National Park, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo^[81]

^{[s 2]}

Award of Excellence
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Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery

27 May 2007

John Moore

Arlington, Virginia, United States

^{[s 6]}

Troops Return
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Homecoming

2007

Louie Favorite

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

^{[s 6]}

Swimming, 2008 Summer Olympics
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Photo Finish

16 August 2008

Heinz Kluetmeier

Beijing, China

^{[s 3]}

Newsom Political Future
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Married at Last

2008

Marcio Sanchez

San Francisco, California, United States

^{[s 3]}

Barack Obama Holds Election Night Gathering In Chicago's Grant Park
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The New First Family

2008

Win McNamee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

^{[s 3]}

June 26, 09. At New Journey Ministries Church, in Hawthorne, Edward J. Cobbin (center) is comforted
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Funeral of Edwin Cobbin

2009

Barbara Davidson

Hawthorne, California, United States

^{[s 6]}

See article

Diego Frazão Torquato [pt]

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]}

The Death of Neda
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The Death of Neda

2009

Unknown

Tehran, Iran

^{[s 2]}

2010s

Image

Title

Date

Photographer

Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

test
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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]}

US - ATTACKS - 911 - ANNIVERSARY
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9/11 Memorial

11 September 2011

Justin Lane

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 6]}

Mideast Fleeing Syria
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Aida

12 March 2012

Rodrigo Abd

Idlib, Syria

^{[s 6]}

FASHION-NEWYORK
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Fashion Week

7 September 2012

Lucas Jackson

New York, New York, United States

^{[s 6]}

Shootings As Routine
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Newtown Massacre

14 December 2012

Jessica Hill

Newtown, Connecticut, United States

^{[s 6]}

Connecticut State Police lead students from the Sandy Hook Elementary School to safety after a mass shooting on Dec. 14, 2012
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Sandy Hook

14 December 2012

Shannon Hicks

Newtown, Connecticut, United States

^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}

CHINA-SOCIAL-SUICIDE
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China Social Suicide

27 February 2013

Agence France-Presse

Wuhan, Hubei, China

^{[s 6]}

North Korea
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North Korea

2013

David Guttenfelder

Pyongyang, North Korea

^{[s 2]}

Explosions At 117th Boston Marathon
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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]}

Massacre at Westgate Mall
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Nairobi Mall Attack

21 September 2013

Tyler Hicks

Nairobi, Kenya

^{[s 6]}

If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars
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Oscars Selfie

2 March 2014

Bradley Cooper

Los Angeles, California, United States

^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

TURKEY-MINE-BLAST
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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]}

Turkish coast guard rescues refugees in Turkey's Aydin
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Turkish Coast Guard Rescue

2016

Emin Menguarslan

Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey

^{[s 6]}

WALKING ON THIN ICE.
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Climate Change

2018

Sergio Pitamitz

Svalbard, Norway

^{[s 3]}

2020s

Image

Title

Date

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Location

Notes

Cited survey(s)

ABD'de Trump destekçileri polis barikatını aşarak Kongre binasına girdi
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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]}

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