27 June 2009

13 pictures that changed the world

A friend of mine who is a photographer herself picked these.

"Omaha Beach, Normandie, France"
Robert Capa, 1944

"Migrant Mother"
Dorothea Lange, 1936
Many say Florence Owens Thompson is the icon of the great depression thanks to Dorothea Lange.



"Federal Dead on the Field of Battle of First Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania"
Mathew Brady, 1863

"Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief"
Eddie Adams, 1968

"V-J Day, Times Square, 1945", a.k.a. "The Kiss"
Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945


"Hindenburg"
Murray Becker, 1937

"The Tetons - Snake River"
Ansel Adams, 1942

"The Corpse of Che Guevara"
Freddy Alborta, 1967

"Einstein with his Tongue Out"
Arthur Sasse, 1951

"DalĂ­ Atomicus"
Philippe Halsman, 1948

"Loch Ness Monster" a.k.a. "The Surgeon’s Photo"
Ian Wetherell, 1934

"Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel"
Margaret Bourke-White, 1946


"Le Violon d’Ingres"
Man Ray, 1924