61 Famous Photos That Changed The World

The Terror Of War, Nick Ut, 1972

The Burning Monk, Malcolm Browne, 1963

Starving Child And Vulture, Kevin Carter, 1993

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, 1932

Tank Man, Jeff Widener, 1989

Falling Man, Richard Drew, 2001

Alan Kurdi, Nilüfer Demir, 2015

Earthrise, William Anders, NASA, 1968

Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, Lieutenant Charles Levy, 1945

V-J Day In Times Square, Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945

Pillars Of Creation, Nasa, 1995

Fire Escape Collapse, Stanley Forman, 1975

A Man On The Moon, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, 1969

Jewish Boy Surrenders In Warsaw, 1943

Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936

The Hindenburg Disaster, Sam Shere, 1937

Dalí Atomicus, Philippe Halsman, 1948

Leap Into Freedom, Peter Leibing, 1961

Flag Raising On Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, 1945

Hitler At A Nazi Party Rally, Heinrich Hoffmann, 1934

Gandhi And The Spinning Wheel, Margaret Bourke-White, 1946

The Pillow Fight, Harry Benson, 1964

First Cell-Phone Picture, Philippe Kahn, 1997

Muhammad Ali Vs. Sonny Liston, Neil Leifer, 1965

Saigon Execution, Eddie Adams, 1968

Gorilla In The Congo, Brent Stirton, 2007

Michael Jordan, Co Rentmeester, 1984

A wave approaches Miyako, Japan, Mainichi Shimbun/Reuters, 2011

A couple kisses on a street after riots broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia, Rich Lam/Getty Images, 2011

United Airlines Flight 175 approaches the south tower of New York’s World Trade Center, Kelly Guenther. 2011

A view of the Costa Concordia, 2012

The space shuttle Endeavour, 2012

Palestinian camp of Yarmouk line up to receive food supplies in Damascus, Syria, 2014

G7 Leaders Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, German Federal Government, 2018.

Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner, James Stanfield, 1987

Flower power, Bernie Boston

Lennon & Yoko, Annie Leibovitz, 1980

The First Photograph Upon Discovery of Machu Picchu, Hiram Bingham, 1911

Prince Charles & Princess Diana. Tim Graham, 1981

First Aerial Photograph, James Wallace, 1860

Footprint On The Moon, Buzz Aldrin, 1969

Sharbat Gula – Steve McCurry – 1984

Einstein’s Birthday, Arthur Sasse, 1951

Race organizers attempt to stop Kathrine Switzer from competing in the Boston Marathon. She became the first woman to finish the race, 1967

The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1945

Sunset on Mars, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, 2005

Milk Drop Coronet, Harold Edgerton, 1957

View from the Window at Le Gras (the first permanent photo ever recorded as being taken), Nicéphore Niépce, 1827

D-Day, Robert Capa, 1944

The Tetons and the Snake River, Ansel Adams, 1942

Winston Churchill, Yousuf Karsh, 1941

Guerillero Heroico, Alberto Korda, 1960

The Wright brothers’ first flight, 1903

The floating bodies in Tsunami, 2004

The Loch Ness Monster, Ian Wetherell, 1934

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie with raised clenched fists following his release from prison in South Africa after 27 years, 1990

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct), 1933

Titanic leaves port, 1912

Ferdinand Porsche showing a model of the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler, 1935

The crew of Apollo 1 practising their water landing, 1966