User:Spinster/100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time

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label	description	creator	inception	depicts	copyright status
View from the Window at Le Gras	the earliest known surviving photograph produced in the camera obscura by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce	Nicéphore Niépce	1827	Saint-Loup-de-Varennes roof sky garden	public domain
Boulevard du Temple	daguerreotype	Louis Daguerre	1838	Boulevard du Temple roof street human tree streetlight sky	public domain
Valley of the Shadow of Death	photograph by Roger Fenton	Roger Fenton	1855-04-23	Crimean War valley road cannonball Sevastopol	public domain
Abraham Lincoln	photograph by Mathew Brady	Mathew Benjamin Brady	1860
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite	photograph by Carleton Watkins	Carleton Watkins	1861	Cathedral Rocks mountain landscape art
Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam	photograph by Alexander Gardner	Alexander Gardner	1862-09	Battle of Antietam cadaver	public domain
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop	1878 early animated image made by Eadweard Muybridge	Eadweard Muybridge	1878	horse equestrian	public domain
Bandit's Roost, 59½ Mulberry Street	photograph by Jacob Riis	Jacob Riis	1888	Mulberry Street gang brigand
The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen	photograph by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	Wilhelm Röntgen	1895	hand ring bone phalanx
The Pond—Moonlight	photograph by Edward Steichen	Edward Steichen	1904	artificial pond moonlight	public domain
The Vanishing Race	photograph by Edward S. Curtis	Edward S. Curtis	1904	Navajo horse departure human migration
The Steerage	photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907	Alfred Stieglitz	1907	passenger steerage SS Kaiser Wilhelm II immigrant man woman ship crowd	public domain copyrighted
Cotton Mill Girl	photograph by Lewis Hine	Lewis Hine	1908	cotton mill girl child labour
Blind	photograph by Paul Strand	Paul Strand	1916	blindness woman
Bricklayer	photograph by August Sander	August Sander	1928
The Hague	photograph by Erich Salomon	Erich Salomon	1930	Louis Loucheur Julius Curtius André Tardieu Hague conference on reparations
Lunch atop a Skyscraper	1932 photograph of workers atop the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller Plaza	Charles Clyde Ebbets	1932	30 Rockefeller Plaza worker beam lunch Manhattan Central Park
Couple in Raccoon Coats	photograph by James VanDerZee	James Van Der Zee	1932
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare	photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson	Henri Cartier-Bresson	1932
The Loch Ness Monster	photograph by Unknown	No/unknown value	1934
Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally	photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann	Heinrich Hoffmann	1934	Adolf Hitler Nazi Swastika
Fort Peck Dam	photograph by Margaret Bourke-White	Margaret Bourke-White	1936
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California	photograph by Dorothea Lange	Dorothea Lange	1936-03-06	Florence Owens Thompson woman child	public domain
The Falling Soldier	photograph by Robert Capa	Robert Capa	1936-09-05	Federico Borrell García ballistic trauma death in battle anarchist militiaman
The Hindenburg Disaster	photograph by Sam Shere	Sam Shere	1937	Hindenburg disaster LZ 129 Hindenburg conflagration
Bloody Saturday	photograph by H. S. Wong	H. S. Wong	1937-08-28	child Shanghainan Railway Station rail debris infant crying	public domain
Winston Churchill	photograph by Yousuf Karsh	Yousuf Karsh	1941	Winston Churchill
Grief	photograph by Dmitri Baltermants	Dmitry Baltermants	1942
American Gothic	photograph by Gordon Parks	Gordon Parks	1942-08	Ella Watson flag of the United States Of America woman mop broom	public domain
A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw	famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising photograph	No/unknown value	1943	Josef Blösche Tsvi C. Nussbaum	public domain
Betty Grable	photograph by Frank Powolny	Frank Powolny	1943	Betty Grable	public domain
The Critic	photograph by Weegee	Weegee	1943
D-Day	photograph by Robert Capa	Robert Capa	1944
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima	photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II	Joe Rosenthal	1945-02-23	Michael Strank Harlon Block Franklin Sousley Harold Keller Ira Hayes Harold Schultz flag of the United States Of America	public domain
Raising a flag over the Reichstag	iconic photograph from World War II	Yevgeny Khaldei	1945-05-02	Reichstag flag of the Soviet Union soldier Oleksii Kovalov Abdulkhakim Ismailov postage stamp World War II Berlin
Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki	picture of the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki	Charles Levy	1945-08-09	atomic bombing of Nagasaki	public domain
V-J Day in Times Square	1945 photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt	Alfred Eisenstaedt	1945-08-14	kiss Greta Zimmer Friedman sailor Times Square Seventh Avenue
Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel	photograph by Margaret Bourke-White	Margaret Bourke-White	1946
Dalí Atomicus	photograph by Philippe Halsman	Philippe Halsman	1948	Salvador Dalí chair easel painting house cat water Leda Atomica footstool	copyrighted
The Babe Bows Out	photograph by Nat Fein	Nat Fein	1948
Country Doctor	photograph by W. Eugene Smith	W. Eugene Smith	1948
Camelot	photograph by Hy Peskin	Hy Peskin	1953
Dovima with Elephants	photo by Richard Avedon	Richard Avedon	1955	Dovima Asian elephant
Trolley—New Orleans	photograph by Robert Frank	Robert Frank	1955
Emmett Till	photograph by David Jackson	David Jackson	1955	Emmett Till
Milk Drop Coronet	1957 photograph by Harold Edgerton	Harold Eugene Edgerton	1957	Plateau–Rayleigh instability
Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles	photograph by Julius Shulman	Julius Shulman	1960	Stahl House
Guerrillero Heroico	iconic photo of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara by Alberto Korda	Alberto Korda	1960-03-05	Che Guevara	public domain
Jump to freedom	photograph	Peter Leibing	1961-08-15	Conrad Schumann
Nuit de Noël (Happy Club)	photograph by Malick Sidibè	Malick Sidibé	1963
Birmingham, Alabama	photograph by Charles Moore	Charles Moore	1963
JFK Assassination, Frame 313	photograph by Abraham Zapruder	Abraham Zapruder	1963
self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc picture	photograph by Malcolm Browne	Malcolm Browne	1963	Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation Austin A95 Westminster fuel container Bhikkhu
The Pillow Fight	photograph by Harry Benson	Harry Benson	1964
Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston	photograph by Neil Leifer	Neil Leifer	1965
Fetus, 18 weeks	photograph by Lennart Nilsson	Lennart Nilsson	1965
Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze	photograph by Unknown	No/unknown value	1966
Invasion of Prague	photograph by Josef Koudelka	Josef Koudelka	1968
Saigon Execution	photograph by Eddie Adams	Eddie Adams	1968
Black Power Salute	photograph by John Dominis	John Dominis	1968
Earthrise	photograph of the Earth taken by astronaut Bill Anders during the Apollo 8 mission	Bill Anders	1968-12-24	Earth Moon	public domain
Albino Boy, Biafra	photograph by Don McCullin	Don McCullin	1969
A Man on the Moon	photograph by Neil Armstrong, NASA	Neil Armstrong	1969-07-20	Buzz Aldrin Moon space suit footprint visor Neil Armstrong Mare Tranquillitatis Omega Speedmaster Apollo/Skylab A7L	public domain
Kent State Shootings	photograph by John Paul Filo	John Filo	1970
Windblown Jackie	photograph by Ron Galella	Ron Galella	1971
Munich Massacre	photograph by Kurt Strumpf	Kurt Strumpf	1972
The Terror of War	photograph by Nick Ut	Nick Ut	1972-06-08	Phan Thị Kim Phúc
Allende's Last Stand	photograph by Luis Orlando Lagos	Orlando Lagos	1973
Fire Escape Collapse	photograph by Stanley Forman	Stanley Forman	1975-07-22	fall fire escape structural failure girl woman
Soweto Uprising	photograph by Sam Nzima	Sam Nzima	1976
Boat of No Smiles	photograph by Eddie Adams	Eddie Adams	1977
Untitled Film Still #21	photograph by Cindy Sherman	Cindy Sherman	1978
Firing Squad in Iran	photograph by Jahangir Razmi	Jahangir Razmi	1979
Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter	photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe	Robert Mapplethorpe	1979
Molotov Man	photograph by Susan Meiselas	Susan Meiselas	1979-07-06
Behind Closed Doors	photograph by Donna Ferrato	Donna Ferrato	1982
Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)	photograph by Nancy Burson	Nancy Burson	1982
Michael Jordan	photograph by Co Rentmeester	Ko Rentmeester	1984
Piss Christ	1987 photograph by Andres Serrano; depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine	Andres Serrano	1987	crucifix urine
Untitled (Cowboy)	photograph by Richard Prince	Richard Prince	1989
Tank Man	photography of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests	Jeff Widener	1989-06-05	Tank Man Type 59 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre	copyrighted
The Face of AIDS	photograph by Therese Frare	Therese Frare	1990
More Demi Moore	photograph by Annie Leibovitz	Annie Leibovitz	1991-08	handbra human pregnancy Demi Moore
Bosnia	photograph by Ron Haviv	Ron Haviv	1992
Famine in Somalia	photograph by James Nachtwey	James Nachtwey	1992
Starving Child and Vulture	photograph by Kevin Carter	Kevin Carter	1993
The vulture and the little girl	photograph by Kevin Carter	Kevin Carter	1993-03	child Old World vulture starvation Kong Nyong
Pillars of Creation	astrophotograph by the Hubble Space Telescope	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	1995-04-01	Eagle Nebula star cold molecular pillar	public domain
First Cell-Phone Picture	photograph by Philippe Kahn	Philippe Kahn	1997	neonate	public domain
Surfing Hippos	photograph by Michael Nichols	Michael Nichols	2000
99 Cent II Diptychon	Photograph by Andreas Gurksy	Andreas Gursky	2001	supermarket
The Falling Man	iconic photograph from 9/11	Richard Drew	2001-09-11	September 11 attacks man fall World Trade Center	copyrighted
The Hooded Man	photograph by Sergeant Ivan Frederick	Ivan Frederick	2003		public domain
Coffin Ban	photograph by Tami Silicio		2004
Iraqi Girl at Checkpoint	photograph by Chris Hondros	Chris Hondros	2005
Gorilla in the Congo	photograph by Brent Stirton	Brent Stirton	2007
The Death of Neda	photograph by Unknown	No/unknown value	2009
Situation Room	iconic photo of Barack Obama and his national security team during Operation Neptune Spear	Pete Souza	2011-05-01	White House Situation Room Barack Obama Joe Biden Hillary Clinton Marshall B. Webb Denis McDonough Robert Gates Michael Mullen Thomas E. Donilon William M. Daley Antony Blinken John Owen Brennan James R. Clapper Audrey Tomason woman man group of humans	public domain
North Korea	photograph by David Guttenfelder	David Guttenfelder	2013
Oscars Selfie	photograph by Bradley Cooper	Bradley Cooper	2014	Ellen DeGeneres Bradley Cooper Meryl Streep Brad Pitt Jennifer Lawrence Kevin Spacey
photograph of Alan Kurdi	photo of dead toddler on beach on Turkish beach	Nilüfer Demir	2015-09-02	Alan Kurdi toddler beach death

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