List of photographs considered the most important

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—and are considered key images in the history of photography.

19th century

Before 1850

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras)</td><td>1826</td><td>Nicéphore Niépce</td><td>Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France</td><td>Bitumen-coated pewter plate</td><td>Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Windows From Inside South Gallery</td><td>August 1835</td><td>William Henry Fox Talbot</td><td>Lacock, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Photogenic drawing negative</td><td>The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Artist's Studio</td><td>1837</td><td>Louis Daguerre</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Daguerreotype</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Boulevard du Temple</td><td>1838</td><td>Louis Daguerre</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Daguerreotype</td><td>The earliest surviving photograph depicting people: a person working as a shoeshiner and an individual having his shoes shined.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man</td><td>18 October 1840</td><td>Hippolyte Bayard</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Direct Positive</td><td>Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Haystack</td><td>1844</td><td>William Henry Fox Talbot</td><td>Lacock, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Calotype</td><td>A photograph that appeared in The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1850s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>The Mime Charles Deburau as Pierrot</td><td>1854</td><td>Nadar</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Salt print</td><td>The photograph is part of a series taken during the 1850s.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Cook House of the 8th Hussars</td><td>April 1855</td><td>Roger Fenton</td><td>Crimea</td><td>Salt print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Valley of the Shadow of Death</td><td>23 April 1855</td><td>Roger Fenton</td><td>Sevastopol, Crimea</td><td>Wet collodion negative</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter</td><td>1855</td><td>Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Unknown (likely albumen print)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Brig</td><td>1856</td><td>Gustave Le Gray</td><td>Normandy, France</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Portrait of Nariakira Shimazu</td><td>17 September 1857</td><td>Shiro Ichiki</td><td>Satsuma Domain, Japan</td><td>Daguerreotype</td><td>Oldest daguerreotype by a Japanese author; first photo designated an Important Cultural Property by the government of Japan in 1999.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern</td><td>November 1857</td><td>Robert Howlett</td><td>London, England</td><td>Glass plate</td><td>Landmark environmental portraiture and iconography of the Industrial Revolution and 19th century.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Two Ways of Life</td><td>1857</td><td>Oscar Gustave Rejlander</td><td>Wolverhampton, England</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene)</td><td>1857</td><td>Camille Silvy</td><td>Nogent-le-Rotrou, France</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Fading Away</td><td>1858</td><td>Henry Peach Robinson</td><td>Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1860s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Abraham Lincoln</td><td>27 February 1860</td><td>Mathew Brady</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Guardian Angel, One Person Praying</td><td>c. 1860</td><td>Unknown</td><td>London, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Boston, As the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It</td><td>13 October 1860</td><td>James Walice Black</td><td>Boston, Massachusetts, United States</td><td>Glass plate</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Cathedral Rock</td><td>1861</td><td>Carleton Watkins</td><td>Yosemite National Park, California, United States</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Dead of Antietam</td><td>1862</td><td>Alexander Gardner</td><td>Antietam, Maryland, United States</td><td>Large-format glass plate</td><td>Showing the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam—the deadliest single day in the American Civil War</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Scourged Back</td><td>c. 2 April 1863</td><td>McPherson & Oliver</td><td>Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States</td><td>Albumen print</td><td>One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Cartes de Visite</td><td>May - August 1863</td><td>Andre Adolphe Disderi</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg</td><td>July 1863</td><td>Alexander Gardner</td><td>Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States</td><td>Large-format glass plate</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sarah Bernhardt</td><td>1864</td><td>Nadar</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Glass plate</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Wanted Poster</td><td>20 April 1865</td><td>Unknown</td><td>United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Broadside advertising reward for capture of Lincoln assassination conspirators, illustrated with photographic prints of John H. Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, and David E. Herold.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal</td><td>7 July 1865</td><td>Alexander Gardner</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Portrait of Sir John Herschel</td><td>1867</td><td>Julia Margaret Cameron</td><td>Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Carbon print</td><td>Herschel would later be the godfather to Cameron's firstborn.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!</td><td>1867</td><td>Julia Margaret Cameron</td><td>Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Carbon print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Close No. 193 High Street</td><td>1868</td><td>Thomas Annan</td><td>Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom</td><td>Photogravure</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail</td><td>10 May 1869</td><td>Andrew J. Russell</td><td>Promontory, Utah, United States</td><td>Glass plate</td><td>The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Central Pacific Railroad (left), meets Union Pacific Railroad (right) and exchange bottles of water from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1870s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Old Faithful</td><td>1870</td><td>William Henry Jackson</td><td>Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States</td><td>Mammoth-format plate</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Great Falls of the Yellowstone River</td><td>1871</td><td>William Henry Jackson</td><td>Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Chicago Fire</td><td>October 1871</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Chicago, Illinois, United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly</td><td>1873</td><td>Timothy O'Sullivan</td><td>Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, United States</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Steinway Hall</td><td>2 December 1873</td><td>Unknown</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Halftone print</td><td>Steinway Hall on East 14th Street, between University Place and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The first halftone print of a photo used in a periodical in the United States.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Composite Portraits of Criminal Types</td><td>1877</td><td>Francis Galton</td><td>London, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Horse in Motion</td><td>June 1878</td><td>Eadweard Muybridge</td><td>Palo Alto, California, United States</td><td>Composite from multiple glass plates</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1880s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street</td><td>1880</td><td>Jacob Riis</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Water Rats</td><td>1886</td><td>Frank Meadow Sutcliffe</td><td>Whitby, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Albumen print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street</td><td>1888</td><td>Jacob Riis</td><td>Mulberry Bend, New York City, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td>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 crime-ridden Bend's replacement with Columbus Park.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1890s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen</td><td>1895</td><td>Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen</td><td>Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany</td><td>X-ray</td><td>The first X-ray, taken by its inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Shroud of Turin negative</td><td>28 May 1898</td><td>Secondo Pia</td><td>Turin, Italy</td><td>Negative</td><td>Photographic negative of an ancient cloth relic shows details of a scourged and crucified human body</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Otto von Bismarck on His Deathbed</td><td>30 July 1898</td><td>Max Priester and Willy Wicke</td><td>Friedrichsruh, German Empire</td><td>Photograph</td><td>Post-mortem photograph of Otto von Bismarck taken shortly after his death</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Organ Player and Singing Girl</td><td>1898</td><td>Eugène Atget</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Portrait of Emil Racoviță</td><td>1899</td><td>Louis Boutan</td><td>Banyuls-sur-Mer, France</td><td>Glass plate</td><td>First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed for underwater photography.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

20th century

1900s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>A Sea of Steps</td><td>1903</td><td>Frederick H. Evans</td><td>Wells Cathedral, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Large Format</td><td>One of Evans's finest works in architectural photography.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>First Flight</td><td>17 December 1903</td><td>John T. Daniels</td><td>Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, United States</td><td>Glass plate</td><td>Captured flight of the first airplane, the Wright Flyer, flown by inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Vanishing Race–Navaho</td><td>1904</td><td>Edward S. Curtis</td><td>Arizona, United States</td><td>Photogravure</td><td>Taken during the cultural assimilation of Native Americans while also popularizing the Vanishing Indian stereotype.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Flatiron</td><td>1904</td><td>Edward Steichen</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Blue-green pigment gum bichromate over platinum print</td><td>A print of this photograph became the second most expensive photograph ever sold on 9 November, 2022, when it sold for $11,840,000, at Christie's New York, well above the estimate of $2,000,000–3,000,000.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Pond—Moonlight</td><td>1904</td><td>Edward Steichen</td><td>Mamaroneck, New York, United States</td><td>Multiple gum bichromate print over platinum</td><td>Pictorialist hand-colored photograph; only three versions exist. In 2006, a print became the most expensive photo sold.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>An Oasis in the Badlands</td><td>1905</td><td>Edward S. Curtis</td><td>South Dakota, United States</td><td>Glass plate</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bichonnade in Flight</td><td>1905</td><td>Jacques Henri Lartigue</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>San Francisco Earthquake</td><td>18 April 1906</td><td>Arnold Genthe</td><td>San Francisco, California, United States</td><td>Unknown (likely gelatin silver print)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Steerage</td><td>1907</td><td>Alfred Stieglitz</td><td>Aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Glass plate</td><td>Landmark modernist photo depicting immigrants on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill</td><td>1908</td><td>Lewis Hine</td><td>Newberry, South Carolina, United States</td><td>Glass plate</td><td>Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The North Pole</td><td>6 April 1909</td><td>Robert E. Peary</td><td>Arctic Ocean</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Cactus Hot Air Balloon</td><td>1909</td><td>Léon Gimpel</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Autochrome</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1910s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Breaker Boys</td><td>1911</td><td>Lewis Hine</td><td>Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States</td><td>Unknown (likely gelatin silver print)</td><td>Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Triangle Shirtwaist Fire</td><td>25 March 1911</td><td>Brown Brothers</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The South Pole</td><td>14 December 1911</td><td>Bjorn Finstad</td><td>South Pole, Antarctica</td><td>Halftone Print</td><td>Amundsen's South Pole expedition</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Girl with a Mirror</td><td>1912</td><td>Clarence H. White</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Platinum print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Storyville Portrait</td><td>1912</td><td>E.J. Bellocq</td><td>Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States</td><td>Gelatin Silver Print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Une Delage au Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France de 1912</td><td>1912</td><td>Jacques-Henri Lartigue</td><td>Dieppe, France</td><td>Large Format</td><td>This photo depicts René Croquet, with his riding mechanic.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney</td><td>15 January 1913</td><td>Baron Adolphe de Meyer</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Trampled by the Kings Horse</td><td>4 June 1913</td><td>Arthur Barrett</td><td>United Kingdom</td><td></td><td>Emily Davison is struck by King George's horse, Anmer, and knocked unconscious. She died four days later from a fractured skull.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Abstraction, Porch Shadows</td><td>1916</td><td>Paul Strand</td><td>Salisbury, Connecticut, United States</td><td>Silver-platinum print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Passport of Isadora Duncan</td><td>1916</td><td>Copied by Brad Trent</td><td>United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Blind Woman, New York</td><td>1916</td><td>Paul Strand</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Large format camera with trick lens and right-angle mirror</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Cottingley Fairies</td><td>1917</td><td>Elsie Wright</td><td>Cottingley, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Glass plate</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>German Trenches Near Reims</td><td>1918</td><td>Julien Bryan</td><td>Reims, France</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1920s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Armco Steel</td><td>1922</td><td>Edward Weston</td><td>Middletown, Ohio, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Le Violon d'Ingres</td><td>1924</td><td>Man Ray</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Unknown</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Movement Study</td><td>1926</td><td>Rudolf Koppitz</td><td>Vienna, Austria</td><td>Gelatin silver print on carte-postale</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Kiki with African Mask</td><td>1926</td><td>Man Ray</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Charles Lindbergh, Croydon Aerodrome</td><td>29 May 1927</td><td>Pacific and Atlantic photos inc.</td><td>London, England, United Kingdom</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Monolith, the Face of Half Dome</td><td>1927</td><td>Ansel Adams</td><td>Yosemite National Park, California, United States</td><td>Glass plate</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bricklayer</td><td>1928</td><td>August Sander</td><td>Cologne, Germany</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Pastry Cook</td><td>1928</td><td>August Sander</td><td>Cologne, Germany</td><td>Large format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Woman of Tehuantapec</td><td>1929</td><td>Tina Modotti</td><td>Tehuantepec, Mexico</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1930s

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>The Hague</td><td>3 January 1930</td><td>Erich Salomon</td><td>The Hague, the Netherlands</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Al Capone Mug Shot</td><td>8 May 1930</td><td>Miami Police Department</td><td>Miami, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Pepper No. 30</td><td>2 August 1930</td><td>Edward Weston</td><td>Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States</td><td>8x10 large format view camera</td><td>With carefully crafted tones of light, this photo of a pepper emphasizes third-dimensional depth while defying conventional interpretations of form.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Lynching</td><td>7 August 1930</td><td>Lawrence Beitier</td><td>Marion, Indiana, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Larmes</td><td>1930</td><td>Man Ray</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td>The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sleeping Woman</td><td>1930</td><td>Man Ray</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare</td><td>1932</td><td>Henri Cartier-Bresson</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Brussels</td><td>1932</td><td>Henri Cartier-Bresson</td><td>Brussels, Belgium</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Couple in Raccoon Coats</td><td>1932</td><td>James Van Der Zee</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Io + gatto (I + Cat)</td><td>1932</td><td>Wanda Wulz</td><td>Trieste, Italy</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Lunch atop a Skyscraper</td><td>20 September 1932</td><td>Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty – see article</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Dead Emu during Emu War</td><td>25 November 1932</td><td></td><td></td><td>Campion, Australia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bonnie and Clyde</td><td>1933</td><td>W. D. Jones</td><td>United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Girl with a Leica</td><td>1934</td><td>Alexander Rodchenko</td><td>Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally</td><td>1934</td><td>Heinrich Hoffmann</td><td>Bückeburg, Germany</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Surgeon's Photograph</td><td>1934</td><td>Ian Wetherell</td><td>Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>First AP Wirephoto</td><td>1 January 1935</td><td>Thomas Sande</td><td>Adirondack Mountains, New York, United States</td><td>Wirephoto</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Lady Milbanke as 'Queen of the Amazons'</td><td>1935</td><td>Yevonde Middleton</td><td>London, England</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Migrant Mother</td><td>6 March 1936</td><td>Dorothea Lange</td><td>Nipomo, California, United States</td><td>Large format</td><td>The photograph depicts Florence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother during the Great Depression.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Jesse Owens Salute</td><td>August 1936</td><td>Heinrich Hoffmann</td><td>Berlin, Germany</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>The Falling Soldier</td><td>5 September 1936</td><td>Robert Capa</td><td>Espejo, Spain</td><td>35 mm</td><td>The photograph depicts the death of Republican soldier Federico Borrell García in the Spanish Civil War.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Fort Peck Dam</td><td>1936</td><td>Margaret Bourke-White</td><td>Fort Peck, Montana, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Goldfish Bowl</td><td>1937</td><td>Herbert List</td><td>Santorini, Greece</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Louisville Flood</td><td>January 1937</td><td>Margaret Bourke-White</td><td>Louisville, Kentucky, United States</td><td>Large format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Lambeth Walk</td><td>1937</td><td>Bill Brandt</td><td>London, United Kingdom</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Hindenburg Disaster</td><td>6 May 1937</td><td>Sam Shere</td><td>Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td>The photograph depicts the Hindenburg Zeppelin on fire at the mooring mast of Lakehurst.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bloody Saturday</td><td>28 August 1937</td><td>H. S. Wong</td><td>Shanghai, China</td><td>35 mm</td><td>The photograph depicts a baby in bombed-out ruins in Shanghai.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Juvisy, France</td><td>1938</td><td>Henri Cartier‐Bresson</td><td>Juvisy-sur-Orge, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Louis Knocks Out Schmeling</td><td>1938</td><td>Unknown photographer for the Associated Press</td><td>Bronx, New York, United States</td><td></td><td>Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Aerial View of Manhattan</td><td>1939</td><td>Margaret Bourke-White</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Anne Frank</td><td>May 1939</td><td>Polyfoto</td><td>Amsterdam, Netherlands</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Mainbocher Corset</td><td>August 1939</td><td>Horst P. Horst</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Large format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Mulberry Street</td><td>21 September 1939</td><td>Weegee</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr></tbody></table>

1940s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Anti-Jewish</td><td>1 January 1940</td><td>Henry Guttman</td><td>Germany</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>St Paul's Survives</td><td>July 1940</td><td>Herbert Mason</td><td>London, England, United Kingdom</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Buckingham Palace</td><td>13 September 1940</td><td>Cecil Beaton</td><td>London, England, United Kingdom</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico</td><td>1 November 1941</td><td>Ansel Adams</td><td>Hernandez, New Mexico, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print, large format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Roaring Lion</td><td>30 December 1941</td><td>Yousuf Karsh</td><td>Ottawa, Canada</td><td>Large format</td><td>Winston Churchill</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>"Grief"</td><td>1942</td><td>Dmitry Baltermants</td><td>Near Kerch, Crimea</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Tetons and the Snake River</td><td>1942</td><td>Ansel Adams</td><td>Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>American Gothic</td><td>August 1942</td><td>Gordon Parks</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Betty Grable</td><td>1943</td><td>Frank Powolny</td><td>Los Angeles, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Critic</td><td>1943</td><td>Weegee</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Warsaw Ghetto boy</td><td>1943</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Warsaw, Poland</td><td>35 mm</td><td>Originally titled Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt ('Forcibly pulled out of bunkers')</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach</td><td>20 September 1943</td><td>George Strock</td><td>Buna, Papua New Guinea</td><td>Unknown (likely medium format)</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Into the Jaws of Death</td><td>6 June 1944 7:40 A.M.</td><td>Robert F. Sargent</td><td>Omaha Beach, France</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs)</td><td>6 June 1944</td><td>Robert Capa</td><td>Normandy, France</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Prisoners' Hand Marks</td><td>1944</td><td>Roger Schall</td><td>Paris, France</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Saipan</td><td>1944</td><td>W. Eugene Smith</td><td>Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>MacArthur Returns</td><td>20 October 1944</td><td>Gaetano Faillace</td><td>Leyte, Philippines</td><td></td><td>General Douglas MacArthur and staff, accompanied by Philippine president Sergio Osmeña (left), land at Red Beach, Leyte</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Tide Pool, Point Lobos</td><td>1945</td><td>Edward Weston</td><td>Point Lobos, California, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Yalta Conference</td><td>9 February 1945</td><td>U.S. Army Signal Corps</td><td>Yalta, Crimea</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima</td><td>23 February 1945</td><td>Joe Rosenthal</td><td>Iwo Jima, Japan</td><td>Large format</td><td>The photograph depicts the raising of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Buchenwald</td><td>15 April 1945</td><td>Margaret Bourke-White</td><td>Ettersberg, Germany</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Inside Buchenwald</td><td>16 April 1945</td><td>Private H. Miller</td><td>Ettersberg, Germany</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced</td><td>April 1945</td><td>Henri Cartier‐Bresson</td><td>Dessau, Germany</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Benito Mussolini</td><td>29 April 1945</td><td>Vincenzo Carrese</td><td>Milan, Italy</td><td></td><td>The dead body of Benito Mussolini next to his mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in Piazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians a year earlier after executing them in retaliation for resistance activity.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Raising a Flag over the Reichstag</td><td>2 May 1945</td><td>Yevgeny Khaldei</td><td>Berlin, Germany</td><td>35 mm</td><td>The photograph depicts the raising of the Flag of the Soviet Union during Battle of Berlin.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki</td><td>9 August 1945</td><td>Charles Levy</td><td>Nagasaki, Japan</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>V-J Day in Times Square</td><td>14 August 1945</td><td>Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen)</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td>The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb</td><td>1945</td><td>George Silk</td><td>Hiroshima, Japan</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Atomic Destruction</td><td>1945</td><td>Bernard Hoffman</td><td>Hiroshima, Japan</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td>The photograph was in the first collection depicting the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel</td><td>April 1946</td><td>Margaret Bourke-White</td><td>India</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td>The photograph depicts Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Dead Sea Scrolls</td><td>1947</td><td>Amit Shabi</td><td>Israel</td><td></td><td>The photograph depicts the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Biblical manuscripts.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Route 66</td><td>1947</td><td>Andreas Feininger</td><td>Route 66 in Arizona, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Babe Ruth Bows Out</td><td>13 June 1948</td><td>Nat Fein</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Barn Owl with Vole</td><td>July 1948</td><td>Eric Hosking</td><td>Suffolk, England, United Kingdom</td><td>Bromide print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Dalí Atomicus</td><td>1948</td><td>Philippe Halsman</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Juris Upatnieks Demonstrating the Hologram</td><td>1948</td><td>Fritz Goro</td><td>Michigan, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Country Doctor</td><td>1948</td><td>W. Eugene Smith</td><td>Kremmling, Colorado, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Career Girl</td><td>1948</td><td>Leonard McCombe</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Provençal Nude</td><td>1949</td><td>Willy Ronis</td><td>Gordes, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Nuns Watching Television</td><td>March 1949</td><td>Ralph Morse</td><td>Erie, Pennsylvania, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Clarence Hailey Long</td><td>12 September 1949</td><td>Leonard McCombe</td><td>Texas, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr></tbody></table>

1950s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (French: Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville)</td><td>1950</td><td>Robert Doisneau</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Iron Lung Polio Patients</td><td>1950</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Downey, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Albert Einstein</td><td>1951</td><td>Arthur Sasse</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Photo 51</td><td>May 1952</td><td>Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin</td><td>London, England</td><td>X-ray crystallograph</td><td>The photograph depicts an X-ray diffraction image providing key to DNA structure.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Moving to the Suburbs</td><td>9 December 1952</td><td>J.R. Eyerman</td><td>Lakewood, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Announcement of Stalin's Death</td><td>6 March 1953</td><td>Dmitri Baltermants</td><td>Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Everest</td><td>23 May 1953</td><td>Sir Edmund Hillary</td><td>Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Atop Mount Everest</td><td>23 May 1953</td><td>Alfred Gregory</td><td>Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Camelot</td><td>July 1953</td><td>Hy Peskin</td><td>Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Roger Bannister</td><td>6 May 1954</td><td>Norman Potter</td><td>Oxford, England, United Kingdom</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Monroe</td><td>9 September 1954</td><td>Matty Zimmerman</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Jackie Robinson</td><td>1955</td><td>Ralph Morse</td><td>Bronx, New York, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Dovima with Elephants</td><td>August 1955</td><td>Richard Avedon</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Emmett Till's mother at his funeral.</td><td>15 September 1955</td><td>David Jackson</td><td>Chicago, Illinois, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Trolley – New Orleans</td><td>1955</td><td>Robert Frank</td><td>New Orleans, Louisiana, United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The New King</td><td>1956</td><td>Charles Trainor</td><td>Miami, Florida, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Milk Drop Coronet</td><td>10 January 1957</td><td>Harold E. Edgerton</td><td>Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td>Two drops of milk imaged by fast-film stroboscopic photography</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>First Digital Photo</td><td>1957</td><td>Russell Kirsch</td><td>Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States</td><td>Photo composite of two binary scans</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In</td><td>July 1957</td><td>O. Winston Link</td><td>Iaeger, West Virginia, United States</td><td>Large format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Elizabeth Eckford</td><td>4 September 1957</td><td>Will Counts</td><td>Little Rock, Arkansas, United States</td><td></td><td>Eckford as one of the Little Rock Nine who faced opposition while attending a formerly segregated high school.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Aspens, Northern New Mexico</td><td>1958</td><td>Ansel Adams</td><td>New Mexico, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Integrated Circuit</td><td>1959</td><td>Robert Noyce</td><td>United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>First Satellite Image</td><td>14 August 1959</td><td>Explorer VI</td><td>17000 miles above Mexico</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1960s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Guerrillero Heroico</td><td>5 March 1960</td><td>Alberto Korda</td><td>Havana, Cuba</td><td>35 mm</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Massacre at Sharpeville</td><td>21 March 1960</td><td>Ian Berry</td><td>Sharpeville, South Africa</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles</td><td>June 1960</td><td>Julius Shulman</td><td>Los Angeles, California, United States</td><td>Large format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Nixon Vs Kennedy TV Debate</td><td>26 September 1960</td><td>Paul Schutzer</td><td>Chicago, Illinois, United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>American Spy Pilot Francis Gary Powers</td><td>16 November 1960</td><td>Carl Mydans</td><td>Moscow, Russia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Flavio da Silva</td><td>1961</td><td>Gordon Parks</td><td>Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Leap into Freedom</td><td>15 August 1961</td><td>Peter Leibing</td><td>Berlin, Germany</td><td>35 mm</td><td>The photograph depicts Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier running away over barbed-wire in Berlin.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Thalidomide</td><td>1962</td><td>Stan Wayman</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Cuban Missile Crisis</td><td>25 October 1962</td><td>Neal Boenzi</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td>Adlai Stevenson II shows aerial photos of Russian missiles in Cuba to the United Nations Security Council in the presence of USSR ambassador Valerian Zorin.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Birmingham, Alabama</td><td>3 May 1963</td><td>Charles Moore</td><td>Birmingham, Alabama, United States</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td>Nonviolent civil rights movement student activists sprayed by high-pressure fire hoses during the Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Woolworth Sit-In</td><td>28, May, 1963</td><td>Fred Blackwell</td><td>Jackson, Mississippi, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Nuit de Noël (Happy Club)</td><td>1963</td><td>Malick Sidibé</td><td>Bamako, Mali</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Burning Monk</td><td>11 June 1963</td><td>Malcolm Browne</td><td>Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam</td><td>35 mm</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>I Have a Dream</td><td>28 August 1963</td><td>Agence France-Presse</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Zapruder film</td><td>22 November 1963</td><td>Abraham Zapruder</td><td>Dallas, Texas, United States</td><td>35 mm internegative</td><td>The film depicts the most complete view of the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Johnson Is Sworn In</td><td>22 November 1963</td><td>Cecil W. Stoughton</td><td>Dallas, Texas, United States</td><td></td><td>Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field Airport two hours and eight minutes after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas. Jackie Kennedy (right), still in her blood-soaked clothes, looks on.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald</td><td>24 November 1963</td><td>Robert H. Jackson</td><td>Dallas, Texas, United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Beatles Arrive</td><td>1964</td><td>Harry Benson</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Pillow Fight</td><td>January 1964</td><td>Harry Benson</td><td>Paris, France</td><td>Gelatin silver print</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Selma March</td><td>7 March 1965</td><td>James H. Karales</td><td>Alabama, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks</td><td>1965</td><td>Lennart Nilsson</td><td>Stockholm, Sweden</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II</td><td>1965</td><td>Neil Leifer</td><td>Lewiston, Maine, United States</td><td>Medium format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp</td><td>1965</td><td>Hugo van Lawick</td><td>Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze</td><td>1966</td><td>Hou Bo</td><td>Wuhan, Hubei, China</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Reaching Out</td><td>5 October 1966</td><td>Larry Burrows</td><td>Mutter's Ridge, Vietnam</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Mini Moment</td><td>3 December 1966</td><td>Popperfoto</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Boston Marathon</td><td>19 May 1967</td><td>Harry Trask</td><td>Boston, Massachusetts, United States</td><td></td><td>Runner Kathrine Switzer attacked by race official Jock Semple while running in the 1967 Boston Marathon.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Jimi Hendrix Experience</td><td>18 June 1967</td><td>Jim Marshall</td><td>Monterey, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Twiggy</td><td>1 March 1967</td><td>Bernard Gotfryd</td><td>London, England, United Kingdom</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Unidentified Flying Object</td><td>1967</td><td>Ralph Ditter</td><td>Zanesville, Ohio, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Patterson-Gimlin Film</td><td>20 October 1967</td><td>Roger Patterson</td><td>Pacific Northwest, United States</td><td>16 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Flower Power</td><td>21 October 1967</td><td>Bernie Boston</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Saigon Execution</td><td>1 February 1968</td><td>Eddie Adams</td><td>Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Massacre of Villagers in My Lai</td><td>16 March 1968</td><td>Ronald L. Haeberle</td><td>Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam</td><td></td><td>The bodies of civilians including women and children after being murdered by U.S. Army soldiers as part of the My Lai war crime committed by the United States of America during the Vietnam War.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>My Lai</td><td>16 March 1968</td><td>Ronald L. Haeberle</td><td>Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam</td><td>35 mm</td><td>A group of civilian women and children before being killed by the U.S. Army. As part of the My Lai war crime committed by the United States of America.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.</td><td>4 April 1968</td><td>Joseph Louw</td><td>Memphis, Tennessee, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy</td><td>5 June 1968</td><td>Bill Eppridge</td><td>Los Angeles, California, United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Chicago Democratic Convention Protest</td><td>August 1968</td><td>Perry C. Riddle</td><td>United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Invasion of Prague</td><td>August 1968</td><td>Josef Koudelka</td><td>Prague, Czechia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bratislava Tank Man</td><td>August 1968</td><td>Ladislav Bielik</td><td>Bratislava, Slovakia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1968 Olympics Black Power Salute</td><td>16 October 1968</td><td>John Dominis</td><td>Mexico City, Mexico</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Earthrise</td><td>24 December 1968</td><td>William Anders</td><td>The Moon</td><td>Medium format</td><td>The photograph depicts the Earth and Moon's surface from Apollo 8.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Albino Boy, Biafra</td><td>1969</td><td>Don McCullin</td><td>Biafra, West Africa</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Canadian Seal Hunt</td><td>1969</td><td>Duncan Cameron</td><td>Northumberland Strait, Canada</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>One Week's Dead</td><td>28 May - 3 June 1969</td><td>Life Magazine</td><td>Various</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Aerial View of Woodstock Festival</td><td>August 1969</td><td>Burk Uzzle</td><td>Bethel, New York, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Woodstock</td><td>August 1969</td><td>Bill Eppridge</td><td>Bethel, New York, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Buzz Aldrin on the Moon</td><td>21 July 1969</td><td>Neil Armstrong</td><td>Sea of Tranquility, the Moon</td><td>70 mm lunar surface camera</td><td>Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11, the first crewed Moon landing</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Apollo 11 Bootprint</td><td>21 July 1969</td><td>Buzz Aldrin</td><td>Sea of Tranquility, the Moon</td><td>70 mm lunar surface camera</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Altamont</td><td>6 December 1969</td><td>Unknown photographer for the Associated Press</td><td>Altamont Speedway, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1970s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>See article (cropped)</td><td>Kent State Shootings</td><td>4 May 1970</td><td>John Paul Filo</td><td>Kent, Ohio, United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Elvis Meets Nixon</td><td>21 December 1970</td><td>Oliver F. Atkins</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Tomoko and Mother in the Bath</td><td>1971</td><td>W. Eugene Smith</td><td>Kyūshū, Japan</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Windblown Jackie</td><td>1971</td><td>Ron Galella</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong</td><td>21 February 1972</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Nixon in China</td><td>26 February 1972</td><td>Oliver F. Atkins</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Terror of War</td><td>8 June 1972</td><td>Disputed: either Nick Ut, Nguyễn Thành Nghệ, or Huỳnh Công Phúc</td><td>Trảng Bàng, Vietnam</td><td>35 mm</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Munich Massacre</td><td>5 September 1972</td><td>Kurt Strumpf</td><td>Munich, Germany</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame</td><td>1973</td><td>Doc Edgerton</td><td>United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Allende's Last Stand</td><td>11 September 1973</td><td>Orlando Lagos</td><td>Chile</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Patty Hearst Surveillance</td><td>15 April 1974</td><td>Hibernia Bank Surveillance Camera</td><td>San Francisco, California, United States</td><td>Surveillance camera still</td><td>Patty Hearst, during the April 1974 Hibernia bank robbery.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Nixon Resignation</td><td>9 August 1974</td><td>Rolls Press</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Water‐Towers</td><td>1974–2009</td><td>Bernd and Hilla Becher</td><td>Various locations across Europe and the United States</td><td>Large format</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari</td><td>1975</td><td>Mervyn Bishop</td><td>Daguragu, Northern Territory, Australia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Helicopter Evacuation of the US Embassy, Saigon</td><td>April 1975</td><td>Thai Khac Chuong</td><td>Nha Trang, Vietnam</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Fire Escape Collapse</td><td>22 July 1975</td><td>Stanley Forman</td><td>Boston, Massachusetts, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Soweto Uprising</td><td>16 June 1976</td><td>Sam Nzima</td><td>Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Red Planet</td><td>21 July 1976</td><td>Viking 1</td><td>Chryse Planitia, Mars</td><td></td><td>First color photograph taken from the surface of Mars</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Boat of No Smiles</td><td>1977</td><td>Eddie Adams</td><td>Gulf of Siam</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Untitled Film Stills</td><td>1977–1980</td><td>Cindy Sherman</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Cambodia</td><td>1979</td><td>Jay Ullal</td><td>Cambodia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter</td><td>1979</td><td>Robert Mapplethorpe</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Peace Treaty</td><td>26 March 1979</td><td>Yaakov Saar</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td></td><td>The triple handshake in the peace treaty signing between Israel and Egypt on the White House lawn</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Molotov Man</td><td>16 July 1979</td><td>Susan Meiselas</td><td>Estelí, Nicaragua</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Firing Squad in Iran</td><td>27 August 1979</td><td>Jahangir Razmi</td><td>Kurdistan province, Iran</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

1980s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	John Lennon and Yoko Ono	1980	Annie Leibowitz	New York City, United States		Lennon was murdered hours after the photograph was taken by Leibovitz
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Miracle on Ice	1980	Heinz Kluetmeier	Lake Placid, New York, United States
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Starving Boy and Missionary	1980	Mike Wells	Uganda
	Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model	1981	Helmut Newton	Paris, France
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace	1981	Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield	London, England
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Behind Closed Doors	1982	Donna Ferrato	Saddle River, New Jersey, United States
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)	1982	Nancy Burson	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Ken Moody and Robert Sherman	1984	Robert Mapplethorpe	New York City, United States
	Milk Carton	1984	Robert Frieder	Detroit, Michigan, United States
	Michael Jordan	1984	Co Rentmeester	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Hole in the Ozone	3 October 1985	NASA	Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
	Challenger Disaster	28 January 1986	Michele McDonald	Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States
	Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California	1986	Alon Reininger	San Francisco, California, United States
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	The First Heart Transplant in Poland	1 January 1987	James L. Stanfield	Zabrze, Poland
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
See article	Immersion (Piss Christ)	1987	Andres Serrano	United States	Medium format
	Monkey Business	1987	National Enquirer	Bimini, the Bahamas
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
See article	Willie Horton	1987	Unknown	Maryland, United States
	Dukakis and the Tank	1988	Michael E. Samojeden	Detroit, Michigan, United States		The infamous photo of Michael Dukakis taken as part of his presidential campaign.
	Air Jordan	1988	Walter Iooss	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Medium format
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Untitled (Cowboy)	1989	Richard Prince	United States	Composite
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Exxon Valdez Oil Spill	24 March 1989	John S. Lough	Alaska, United States
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
See article	Tank Man	5 June 1989	Jeff Widener	Beijing, China		The photograph depicts an unidentified protestor confronting column of Chinese military tanks.
	The Wall Falls	November 1989	Robert Maass	Berlin, Germany
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Nicolae Ceausescu	December 1989	Christopher Pillitz	Romania
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph

1990s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>See article</td><td>The Face of AIDS</td><td>1990</td><td>Therese Frare</td><td>Columbus, Ohio, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Operation Desert Storm</td><td>27 February 1991</td><td>David Turnley</td><td>Iraq</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Camels in the Oil Fields</td><td>1 March 1991</td><td>Steve McCurry</td><td>Burgan field, Kuwait</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>L.A. Police Beating Rodney King</td><td>3 March 1991</td><td>George Holiday</td><td>Los Angeles, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>More Demi Moore</td><td>1991</td><td>Annie Leibovitz</td><td>Culver City, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Famine in Somalia</td><td>1992</td><td>James Nachtwey</td><td>Baidoa, Somalia</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Dead Troops Talk</td><td>1992</td><td>Jeff Wall</td><td>Burnaby, British Columbia</td><td>Large format lightbox transparency</td><td>The full title of this staged photograph is "Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986)".</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bosnia</td><td>2 April 1992</td><td>Ron Haviv</td><td>Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>The Vulture and the Little Girl</td><td>March 1993</td><td>Kevin Carter</td><td>Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan)</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Beauty Out of Damage</td><td>1993</td><td>Matuschka</td><td>United States</td><td></td><td>Matuschka's controversial self portrait baring her mastectomy combined with her face. The photo covered the New York Times Sunday Magazine and helped spark debate about breast cancer around the US and the world</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Rwandan Children</td><td>1994</td><td>Seamus Conlan and Tara Farrell</td><td>Rwanda</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Oklahoma City Bombing</td><td>19 April 1995</td><td>Charles Porter IV</td><td>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Giant Iceberg</td><td>1995</td><td>Dr. Hans Oerter</td><td>Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Pillars of Creation</td><td>1995</td><td>Hubble Space Telescope / NASA</td><td>Low Earth orbit</td><td>Wide field and planetary camera</td><td>The photograph depicts a region of star formation.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky</td><td>1996</td><td>Dirck Halstead</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Bliss</td><td>1996</td><td>Charles O'Rear</td><td>Sonoma Valley, California, United States</td><td></td><td>The most viewed photograph in history.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>First Cell-Phone Picture</td><td>11 June 1997</td><td>Philippe Kahn</td><td>Santa Cruz, California, United States</td><td>Camera phone</td><td>The subject is Sophie, the daughter of Philippe Kahn</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Chinese Baby</td><td>1997</td><td>Jeff Abelin</td><td>Fuyang, Anhui, China</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>99 Cent</td><td>1999</td><td>Andreas Gursky</td><td>Los Angeles, California, United States</td><td>chromogenic print face-mounted to acrylic</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Kosovo Refugees</td><td>3 May 1999</td><td>Carol Guzy</td><td>Kukës, Albania</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>World Cup Winners</td><td>1999</td><td>Robert Beck</td><td>Pasadena, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr></tbody></table>

21st century

2000s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid</td><td>2000</td><td>Alan Diaz</td><td>Miami, Florida, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Surfing Hippos</td><td>2000</td><td>Michael Nichols</td><td>Loango National Park, Gabon</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The First Plane Hits the World Trade Center</td><td>11 September 2001</td><td>Jules Naudet</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td>A screenshot of the Jules Naudet footage that is included in the Naudet brothers' documentary film 9/11, originally broadcast on March 10, 2002, on CBS, and later released on DVD.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks</td><td>11 September 2001</td><td>Doug Mills</td><td>Sarasota, Florida, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>The Falling Man</td><td>11 September 2001 9:41:15 A.M.</td><td>Richard Drew</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td>Depicts a man who either fell from the burning World Trade Center or jumped to avoid being burned to death</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center</td><td>11 September 2001</td><td>Patrick Witty</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Father Judge</td><td>11 September 2001</td><td>Shannon Stapleton</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Raising the Flag at Ground Zero</td><td>11 September 2001</td><td>Thomas E. Franklin</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Toppling the Statue of Saddam Hussein</td><td>9 April 2003</td><td>Goran Tomasevic</td><td>Baghdad, Iraq</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Pencil Nebula</td><td>5 June 2003</td><td>Hubble Space Telescope / NASA</td><td>Low Earth orbit</td><td>Wide field and planetary camera</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Hooded Man</td><td>4 November 2003</td><td>Ivan Frederick</td><td>Abu Ghraib, Iraq</td><td></td><td>The photograph depicts Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, an Abu Ghraib prisoner, being subjected to torture.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Capture of Saddam Hussein</td><td>13 December 2003</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Ad-Dawr, Iraq</td><td></td><td>Photo depicts Samir, a 34-year-old Iraqi-American military interpreter, capturing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sakura Lisi</td><td>2004</td><td>Marcus Bleasdale</td><td>Mongbwalu, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Coffin Ban</td><td>2004</td><td>Tami Silicio</td><td>Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Iraqi Girl</td><td>18 January 2005</td><td>Chris Hondros</td><td>Tal Afar, Iraq</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hurricane Katrina Evacuation</td><td>3 September 2005</td><td>Eric Gay</td><td>New Orleans, Louisiana, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hurricane Katrina</td><td>4 September 2005</td><td>Robert Galbraith</td><td>New Orleans, Louisiana, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hurricane Katrina</td><td>2005</td><td>David Phillip</td><td>New Orleans, Louisiana, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Jim Comes Home</td><td>2005</td><td>Todd Heisler</td><td>Aurora, Colorado, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Power of One</td><td>1 February 2006</td><td>Oded Bality</td><td>Amona, West Bank</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Gorilla in the Congo</td><td>July 2007</td><td>Brent Stirton</td><td>Virunga National Park, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery</td><td>27 May 2007</td><td>John Moore</td><td>Arlington, Virginia, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Homecoming</td><td>2007</td><td>Louie Favorite</td><td>Atlanta, Georgia, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Photo Finish</td><td>16 August 2008</td><td>Heinz Kluetmeier</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td>35 mm</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Married at Last</td><td>2008</td><td>Marcio Sanchez</td><td>San Francisco, California, United States</td><td></td><td>See Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The New First Family</td><td>2008</td><td>Win McNamee</td><td>Chicago, Illinois, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Funeral of Edwin Cobbin</td><td>2009</td><td>Barbara Davidson</td><td>Hawthorne, California, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Diego Frazão Torquato</td><td>2009</td><td>Marcos Tristao</td><td>Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Hair Like Mine</td><td>2009</td><td>Pete Souza</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>The Death of Neda</td><td>2009</td><td>Unknown</td><td>Tehran, Iran</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr></tbody></table>

2010s

<table><thead><tr><th>Image</th><th>Title</th><th>Date</th><th>Photographer</th><th>Location</th><th>Format</th><th>Notes</th><th>Cited survey(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td>First Instagram Photo</td><td>16 July 2010</td><td>Kevin Systrom</td><td>Mexico</td><td>Cell phone</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Situation Room</td><td>1 May 2011</td><td>Pete Souza</td><td>Washington, D.C., United States</td><td>35 mm</td><td>Barack Obama and his national security team, in the White House Situation Room during the killing of Osama bin Laden</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>9/11 Memorial</td><td>11 September 2011</td><td>Justin Lane</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Aida</td><td>12 March 2012</td><td>Rodrigo Abd</td><td>Idlib, Syria</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Fashion Week</td><td>7 September 2012</td><td>Lucas Jackson</td><td>New York City, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Shootings as Routine</td><td>14 December 2012</td><td>Jessica Hill</td><td>Newtown, Connecticut, United States</td><td></td><td>The photograph shows Carlee Soto using a phone to ask about her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, after gunman Adam Lanza opened fire on the school, killing 26, including Victoria.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Sandy Hook</td><td>14 December 2012</td><td>Shannon Hicks</td><td>Newtown, Connecticut, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>China Social Suicide</td><td>27 February 2013</td><td>Agence France-Presse</td><td>Wuhan, Hubei, China</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>North Korea</td><td>2013</td><td>David Guttenfelder</td><td>Pyongyang, North Korea</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Boston Marathon Bombing</td><td>2013</td><td>John Tlumacki</td><td>Boston, Massachusetts, United States</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Final Embrace</td><td>April 2013</td><td>Taslima Akhter</td><td>Savar Upazila, Bangladesh</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Nairobi Mall Attack</td><td>21 September 2013</td><td>Tyler Hicks</td><td>Nairobi, Kenya</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Oscar Selfie</td><td>2 March 2014</td><td>Bradley Cooper</td><td>Los Angeles, California, United States</td><td>Cell phone</td><td>The photograph is a selfie taken at the 2014 Oscars. The image shows Ellen DeGeneres, Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong'o, and her brother, Peter Nyong'o.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Turkey Mine Blast</td><td>13 May 2014</td><td>Bülent Kılıç</td><td>Soma, Manisa Province, Turkey</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td>See article</td><td>Alan Kurdi</td><td>2 September 2015</td><td>Nilufer Demir</td><td>Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey</td><td>Unknown</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Turkish Coast Guard Rescue</td><td>2016</td><td>Emin Menguarslan</td><td>Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Yarmouk Refugees</td><td>26 January 2017</td><td>UNRWA</td><td>Damascus, Syria</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Climate Change</td><td>2018</td><td>Sergio Pitamitz</td><td>Svalbard, Norway</td><td></td><td>The photograph depicts a polar bear standing on a melting ice sheet.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Image restricted due to copyright</td></tr><tr><td>View photograph</td></tr></tbody></table>

2020s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Subject	Cited survey(s)
	The Capitol Under Attack	6 January 2021	Tayfun Coşkun	Washington, D.C., United States		January 6 United States Capitol attack
Image restricted due to copyright
View photograph
	Out of Afghanistan	29 August 2021	Alexander Burnett	Kabul, Afghanistan	Cell Phone	Chris Donahue, becoming the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan before the Fall of Kabul