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The Blue Marble

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Photographer: The crew of Apollo 17, NASA in 1972. Context: shows the Earth fully illuminated as seen by the astronauts on their way to the Moon.

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The Beatles’ Abbey Road

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Photographer: Iain Macmillan in 1969. Context: captures The Beatles crossing the street outside Abbey Road Studios.

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The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville

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Photographer: Robert Doisneau in 1950. Context: a couple kissing amidst the busy streets of Paris.

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Segregated Water Fountains

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Photographer: Elliott Erwitt in 1950. Context: A photograph showing racial segregation in the Southern United States with separate drinking fountains.

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Afghan Girl

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Photographer: Steve McCurry in 1984. Context: features a young Afghan refugee with striking green eyes in a Pakistan refugee camp.

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Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston

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Photographer: Neil Leifer in 1965. Context: Ali stands over Liston in their second boxing match, a moment after a first-minute knockout.

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

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Photographer: Joe Rosenthal in 1945. Context: captures five U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman raising an American flag during WWII.

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Dalí Atomicus

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Photographer: Philippe Halsman in 1948. Context: shows Salvador Dalí in mid-air with three flying cats and a stream of water.

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Che Guevara at the La Coubre Memorial Service

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Photographer: Alberto Korda in 1960. Context: iconic image of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken at a memorial service.

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The Tetons and the Snake River

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Photographer: Ansel Adams in 1942. Context: Black and white photograph capturing the grandeur of the Grand Teton National Park.

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Lunch atop a Skyscraper

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Photographer: Charles C. Ebbets in 1932. Context: captures construction workers eating lunch atop a steel beam 850 feet above NYC.

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Falling Soldier

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Photographer: Robert Capa in 1936. Context: reputedly shows a soldier at the moment of death during the Spanish Civil War.

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Earthrise

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Photographer: William Anders, NASA astronaut, in 1968. Context: depicts Earth rising over the lunar horizon from Apollo 8.

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The Burning Monk

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Photographer: Malcolm Browne in 1963. Context: shows Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk, self-immolating in Saigon.

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Migrant Mother

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Photographer: Dorothea Lange in 1936. Context: depicts Florence Owens Thompson and her children during the Great Depression in the U.S.

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Tank Man

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Photographer: Jeff Widener in 1989. Context: captures an unidentified man standing in front of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests.

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Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

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Photographer: Neil Armstrong (NASA astronaut) in 1969. Context: shows astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission.

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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare

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Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1932. Context: captures a man leaping across a puddle behind the Paris train station.

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D-Day landing on Omaha Beach

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Photographer: Robert Capa in 1944. Context: depicts American troops landing on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion in World War II.

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Pillars of Creation

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Photographer: Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Context: depicts towering columns of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula.

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The Falling Man

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Photographer: Richard Drew in 2001. Context: captures a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.

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V-J Day in Times Square

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Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1945. Context: portrays a U.S. Navy sailor kissing a stranger—a woman in a white dress—on Victory over Japan Day.

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Loch Ness Monster from Surgeon's Photograph

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Photographer: Robert Kenneth Wilson in 1934. Context: Supposed photograph of the Loch Ness Monster, later revealed to be a hoax.

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The Pale Blue Dot

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Photographer: Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990. Context: image of Earth taken from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away, showing Earth as a tiny speck among the vastness of space.

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Hindenburg Disaster

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Photographer: Sam Shere in 1937. Context: captures the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catching fire and being destroyed.

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