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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.

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

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Windows From Inside South Gallery August 1835 William Henry Fox Talbot Lacock, England, United Kingdom The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Boulevard du Temple 1838 Louis Daguerre Paris, France The earliest surviving photograph depicting a person: an individual having their shoes shined.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man 18 October 1840 Hippolyte Bayard Paris, France Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Haystack 1844 William Henry Fox Talbot Lacock, England, United Kingdom A photograph which appeared in The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published.

1850s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Mime Charles Deburau as Pierrot 1854 Nadar Paris, France The photograph is part of a series taken during the 1850s.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall Unknown
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Brig 1856 Gustave Le Gray Normandy, France
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Portrait of Nariakira Shimazu 17 September 1857 Shiro Ichiki Satsuma Domain, Japan Oldest daguerreotype by a Japanese author; first photo designated an Important Cultural Property by the government of Japan in 1999.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern November 1857 Robert Howlett London, England, United Kingdom Landmark environmental portraiture and iconography of the Industrial Revolution and 19th century.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Two Ways of Life 1857 Oscar Gustave Rejlander Wolverhampton, England
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene) 1857 Camille Silvy Nogent-le-Rotrou, France
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Fading Away 1858 Henry Peach Robinson Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

1860s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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]
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Cathedral Rock 1861 Carleton Watkins Yosemite National Park, California, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Dead of Antietam 1862 Alexander Gardner Antietam, Maryland, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal 7 July 1865 Alexander Gardner Washington, D.C., United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Portrait of Sir John Herschel 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom Herschel would later be the godfather to Cameron's firstborn.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Beckoning West 10 May 1869 Andrew J. Russell Promontory, Utah, United States

1870s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Great Falls of the Yellowstone River 1871 William Henry Jackson Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly 1873 Timothy O'Sullivan Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.

1880s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Water Rats 1886 Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Whitby, England, United Kingdom
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.

1890s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.

20th century

1900s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  A Sea of Steps 1903 Frederick H. Evans Wells Cathedral, England, United Kingdom One of Evans's finest works in architectural photography.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Vanishing Race–Navaho 1904 Edward S. Curtis Arizona, United States Taken during the cultural assimilation of Native Americans while also popularizing the Vanishing Indian stereotype.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Steerage 1907 Alfred Stieglitz Aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom Landmark modernist photo depicting immigrants on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill 1908 Lewis Hine Newberry, South Carolina, United States Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Cactus Hot Air Balloon 1909 Lumière Brothers Paris, France

1910s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 25 March 1911 Brown Brothers New York, New York, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Girl with a Mirror 1912 Clarence H. White New York, New York, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Storyville Portrait 1912 E.J. Bellocq New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Abstraction, Porch Shadows 1916 Paul Strand Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Blind Woman, New York 1916 Paul Strand New York, New York, United States

1920s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Armco Steel 1922 Edward Weston Middletown, Ohio, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Movement Study 1926 Rudolf Koppitz Vienna, Austria
See article Bricklayer 1928 August Sander Cologne, Germany
Pastrycook
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List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Woman of Tehuantapec 1929 Tina Modotti Tehuantepec, Mexico

1930s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Hague 3 January 1930 Erich Salomon The Hague, the Netherlands
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Al Capone Mug Shot 8 May 1930 Miami Police Department Miami, United States
See article Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare 1932 Henri Cartier-Bresson Paris, France
Bruxelles, Belgique
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 Brussels 1932 Henri Cartier-Bresson Brussels, Belgium
Couple, Harlem
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 Couple in Raccoon Coats 1932 James Van Der Zee New York, New York, United States
Io + gatto
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 Io + gatto (I + Cat) 1932 Wanda Wulz Trieste, Italy
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Lunch atop a Skyscraper 20 September 1932 Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty – see article New York, New York, United States
Girl with a Leica
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 Girl with a Leica 1934 Alexander Rodchenko Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Adolf Hitler ascending stairs during rally, Buckeberg, 1934
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 Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally 1934 Heinrich Hoffmann Bückeburg, Germany
Surgeon's Photograph
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 Surgeon's Photograph 1934 Ian Wetherell Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Migrant Mother 6 March 1936 Dorothea Lange Nipomo, California, United States The photograph depicts Florence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother during the Great Depression.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Fort Peck Dam 1936 Margaret Bourke-White Fort Peck, Montana, United States
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.
Goldfish Bowl, Santorini, Greece
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 Goldfish Bowl 1937 Herbert List Santorini, Greece
The Louisville Flood
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 The Louisville Flood 1937 Margaret Bourke-White Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Dancing the Lambeth Walk
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 The Lambeth Walk 1937 Bill Brandt London, United Kingdom
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Bloody Saturday 28 August 1937 H. S. Wong Shanghai, China The photograph depicts a baby in bombed-out ruins in Shanghai.
See article Juvisy, France 1938 Henri Cartier‐Bresson Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
Mainbocher Corset
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 Mainbocher Corset 1939 Horst P. Horst Paris, France
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
"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

1940s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1 November 1941 Ansel Adams Hernandez, New Mexico, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Roaring Lion 30 December 1941 Yousuf Karsh Ottawa, Canada
Grief
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 Grief 1942 Dmitri Baltermants Kerch, Ukraine
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Tetons and the Snake River 1942 Ansel Adams Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  American Gothic August 1942 Gordon Parks Washington, D.C., United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Betty Grable 1943 Frank Powolny Los Angeles, California, United States
The Critic
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 The Critic 1943 Weegee New York, New York, United States
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Warsaw Ghetto boy 1943 Unknown Warsaw, Poland
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Into the Jaws of Death 6 June 1944 Robert F. Sargent Omaha Beach, France
"MAGNIFICENT 11": ROBERT CAPA
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 The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs) 6 June 1944 Robert Capa Normandy, France
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.
Tide Pool, Point Lobos
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 Tide Pool, Point Lobos 1945 Edward Weston Point Lobos, California, United States
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Inside Buchenwald 16 April 1945 Unknown Ettersberg, Germany
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki 9 August 1945 Charles Levy Nagasaki, Japan
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
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.
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.
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
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Babe Ruth Bows Out 13 June 1948 Nat Fein New York, New York, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Dalí Atomicus 1948 Philippe Halsman New York, New York, United States
Country Doctor
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 Country Doctor 1948 W. Eugene Smith Kremmling, Colorado, United States
GWYNED FILLING
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 Career Girl 1948 Leonard McCombe New York, New York, United States
Le nu provençal
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 Provençal Nude 1949 Willy Ronis Gordes, France
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
Portrait of Texas Cowboy Clarence Hailey Long, 1949
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 Clarence Hailey Long 1949 Leonard McCombe Texas, United States

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
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
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.
Los Angeles Development Boom
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 Moving To The Suburbs 1952 J.R. Eyerman Lakewood, California, United States
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
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
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Emmett Till's mother at his funeral. 1955 David Jackson Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris
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 Dovima with Elephants 1955 Richard Avedon Paris, France
Trolley--New Orleans
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 Trolley – New Orleans 1955 Robert Frank New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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
Elvis on stage
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 The New King 1956 Charles Trainor Miami, Florida, United States
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  First Digital Photo 1957 Russell Kirsch Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
Aspens, Northern New Mexico
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 Aspens, Northern New Mexico 1958 Ansel Adams New Mexico, United States

1960s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
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.
Nuit de Noël
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 Nuit de Noël (Happy Club) 1963 Malick Sidibè Bamako, Mali
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
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.
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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
Beatles' Pillow Fight, George V Hotel, Paris
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 Pillow Fight 1964 Harry Benson Paris, France
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
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
Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston
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 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston 1965 Neil Leifer Lewiston, Maine, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze 1966 Hou Bo Wuhan, Hubei, China
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
Twiggy In Pink
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 The Mini Moment 3 December 1966 Popperfoto [where?]
Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967
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 The Jimi Hendrix Experience 18 June 1967 Jim Marshall Monterey, California, United States
See article Flower Power 21 October 1967 Bernie Boston Washington D.C., United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Saigon Execution 1 February 1968 Eddie Adams Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Massacre of Villagers in My Lai 16 March 1968 Ronald L. Haeberle Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam
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
See article Assassination of Robert Kennedy 5 June 1968 Bill Eppridge Los Angeles, California, United States
Warsaw Pact troops invasion. Prague, Czechoslovakia. August, 1968
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 Invasion of Prague August 1968 Josef Koudelka Prague, Czechia
Black Power Salute 1968
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 Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics 16 October 1968 John Dominis Mexico City, Mexico
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Earthrise 24 December 1968 William Anders The Moon The photograph depicts the Earth and Moon's surface from Apollo 8.
Biafra
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 Albino Boy, Biafra 1969 Don McCullin Biafra
Woodstock Festival #1
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 Woodstock August 1969 Bill Eppridge Bethel, New York, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Buzz Aldrin on the Moon 21 July 1969 Neil Armstrong Sea of Tranquility, the Moon
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Apollo 11 Bootprint 21 July 1969 Buzz Aldrin Sea of Tranquility, the Moon
Rolling Stones At Altamont
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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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Elvis Meets Nixon 21 December 1970 Oliver F. Atkins Washington D.C., United States
Jackie Onassis, New York
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 Windblown Jackie 1971 Ron Galella New York, New York, United States
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Nixon in China 26 February 1972 Oliver F. Atkins Beijing, China
Napalm attack 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.
Germany Israel Olympics Attack
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List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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
1974 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year
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 Allende's Last Stand 1973 Orlando Lagos Chile
Water Towers (Wassertürme)
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 Water‐Towers 1974–2009 Bernd and Hilla Becher Various locations across Europe and the United States
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
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
See article Fire Escape Collapse 22 July 1975 Stanley Forman Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The death of Hector Pieterson
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List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Red Planet 21 July 1976 Viking 1 Chrysa Planitia, Mars
Sisters
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List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Boat of No Smiles 1977 Eddie Adams Gulf of Siam
Untitled Film Stills
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 Untitled Film Stills 1977–1980 Cindy Sherman New York, New York, United States
Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter
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 Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter 1979 Robert Mapplethorpe New York, New York, United States
See article Molotov Man 16 July 1979 Susan Meiselas Estelí, Nicaragua
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Firing Squad in Iran 27 August 1979 Jahangir Razmi Kurdistan province, Iran

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
Usa Hockey, 1980 Winter Olympics Sports Illustrated Cover
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 Miracle on Ice 1980 Heinz Kluetmeier Lake Placid, New York, United States
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
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
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
Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
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 Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women) 1982 Nancy Burson Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States[citation needed]
Michael Jordan
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 Michael Jordan 1984 Co Rentmeester Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
See article Afghan Girl 1984 Steve McCurry Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan [citation needed]
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Hole in the Ozone 3 October 1985 NASA Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
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
See article Immersion (Piss Christ) 1987 Andres Serrano United States
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
Gary Hart & Donna Rice
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 Monkey Business 1987 National Enquirer Bimini, the Bahamas
'The Slam Dunk' Michael Jordan, Chicago, IL 1988
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 Air Jordan 1988 Walter Iooss Chicago, Illinois, United States
See article Tank Man 5 June 1989 Jeff Widener Beijing, China The photograph depicts an unidentified protestor confronting column of Chinese military tanks.
Untitled (cowboy)
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 Untitled (Cowboy) 1989 Richard Prince United States
BerlinWall
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 The Wall Falls 1989 Robert Maass Berlin, Germany

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
See article More Demi Moore 1991 Annie Leibovitz Culver City, California, United States
1992 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year
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 Operation Desert Storm 27 February 1991 David Turnley Iraq
1992 Photo Contest, General News, 1st prize
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 Camels in the Oil Fields 1 March 1991 Steve McCurry Burgan field, Kuwait
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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
See article Dead Troops Talk 1992 Jeff Wall Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan
The Photograph
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 Bosnia 2 April 1992 Ron Haviv Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
See article The Vulture and the Little Girl March 1993 Kevin Carter Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan)
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Pillars of Creation 1995 Hubble Space Telescope / NASA Low Earth orbit The photograph depicts a region of star formation.
Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
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List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  First Cell-Phone Picture 11 June 1997 Philippe Kahn Santa Cruz, California, United States
See article 99 Cent 1999 Andreas Gursky Los Angeles, California, United States
Agim Shala
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 Kosovo Refugees 3 May 1999 Carol Guzy Kukës, Albania
USA Brandi Chastain, 1999 World Cup
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 World Cup Winners 1999 Robert Beck Pasadena, California, United States

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
Surfing Hippos
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 Surfing Hippos 2000 Michael Nichols Loango National Park, Gabon
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
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
See article The Falling Man 11 September 2001 Richard Drew New York, New York, United States
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
See article Raising the Flag at Ground Zero 11 September 2001 Thomas E. Franklin New York, New York, United States
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
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  The Hooded Man 2004 Ivan Frederick Abu Ghraib, Iraq The photograph depicts Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, an Abu Ghraib prisoner, being subjected to torture.
Coffin ban
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 Coffin Ban 2004 Tami Silicio Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait
U.S. Troops Mistakenly Kill Iraqi Civilians
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 Iraqi Girl 18 January 2005 Chris Hondros Tal Afar, Iraq
HURRICANE KATRINA REFUGEES
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 Hurricane Katrina Evacuation 3 September 2005 Eric Gay New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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
Residents are rescued by helicopter from
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 Hurricane Katrina 2005 David Phillip New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Final Salute
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 Jim Comes Home 2005 Todd Heisler Aurora, Colorado, United States
Oded Balilty of Associated Press
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 The Power of One 1 February 2006 Oded Bality Amona, West Bank
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
Award of Excellence
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 Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery 27 May 2007 John Moore Arlington, Virginia, United States
Troops Return
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 Homecoming 2007 Louie Favorite Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Swimming, 2008 Summer Olympics
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 Photo Finish 16 August 2008 Heinz Kluetmeier Beijing, China
Newsom Political Future
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 Married at Last 2008 Marcio Sanchez San Francisco, California, United States
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
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
See article Diego Frazão Torquato [pt] 2009 Marcos Tristao Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Hair Like Mine 2009 Pete Souza Washington, D.C., United States
The Death of Neda
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 The Death of Neda 2009 Unknown Tehran, Iran

2010s

Image Title Date Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s)
test
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 First Instagram Photo 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, however The Economic Times and The Guardian claim the first photograph posted to the social media to be a picture of San Francisco's South Beach harbor by Mike Krieger, also co-founder. Time later claimed the post of the harbor was the first shared.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.
US - ATTACKS - 911 - ANNIVERSARY
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 9/11 Memorial 11 September 2011 Justin Lane New York, New York, United States
Mideast Fleeing Syria
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 Aida 12 March 2012 Rodrigo Abd Idlib, Syria
FASHION-NEWYORK
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 Fashion Week 7 September 2012 Lucas Jackson New York, New York, United States
Shootings As Routine
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 Newtown Massacre 14 December 2012 Jessica Hill Newtown, Connecticut, United States
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
CHINA-SOCIAL-SUICIDE
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 China Social Suicide 27 February 2013 Agence France-Presse Wuhan, Hubei, China
North Korea
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 North Korea 2013 David Guttenfelder Pyongyang, North Korea
Explosions At 117th Boston Marathon
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 Boston Marathon Bombing 2013 John Tlumacki Boston, Massachusetts, United States
See article Final Embrace April 2013 Taslima Akhter Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
Massacre at Westgate Mall
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 Nairobi Mall Attack 21 September 2013 Tyler Hicks Nairobi, Kenya
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
TURKEY-MINE-BLAST
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 Turkey Mine Blast 13 May 2014 Bülent Kılıç Soma, Manisa Province, Turkey
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  Yarmouk Refugees 2014 UNRWA Damascus, Syria
See article Alan Kurdi 2 September 2015 Nilufer Demir Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey
Turkish coast guard rescues refugees in Turkey's Aydin
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 Turkish Coast Guard Rescue 2016 Emin Menguarslan Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey
WALKING ON THIN ICE.
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 Climate Change 2018 Sergio Pitamitz Svalbard, Norway

2020s

Image Title Date Photographer 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.
List Of Photographs Considered The Most Important  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.


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