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The Blue Marble
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.
The Beatles’ Abbey Road
Photographer: Iain Macmillan in 1969. Context: captures The Beatles crossing the street outside Abbey Road Studios.
The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville
Photographer: Robert Doisneau in 1950. Context: a couple kissing amidst the busy streets of Paris.
Segregated Water Fountains
Photographer: Elliott Erwitt in 1950. Context: A photograph showing racial segregation in the Southern United States with separate drinking fountains.
Afghan Girl
Photographer: Steve McCurry in 1984. Context: features a young Afghan refugee with striking green eyes in a Pakistan refugee camp.
Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston
Photographer: Neil Leifer in 1965. Context: Ali stands over Liston in their second boxing match, a moment after a first-minute knockout.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Photographer: Joe Rosenthal in 1945. Context: captures five U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman raising an American flag during WWII.
Dalí Atomicus
Photographer: Philippe Halsman in 1948. Context: shows Salvador Dalí in mid-air with three flying cats and a stream of water.
Che Guevara at the La Coubre Memorial Service
Photographer: Alberto Korda in 1960. Context: iconic image of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken at a memorial service.
The Tetons and the Snake River
Photographer: Ansel Adams in 1942. Context: Black and white photograph capturing the grandeur of the Grand Teton National Park.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Photographer: Charles C. Ebbets in 1932. Context: captures construction workers eating lunch atop a steel beam 850 feet above NYC.
Falling Soldier
Photographer: Robert Capa in 1936. Context: reputedly shows a soldier at the moment of death during the Spanish Civil War.
Earthrise
Photographer: William Anders, NASA astronaut, in 1968. Context: depicts Earth rising over the lunar horizon from Apollo 8.
The Burning Monk
Photographer: Malcolm Browne in 1963. Context: shows Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk, self-immolating in Saigon.
Migrant Mother
Photographer: Dorothea Lange in 1936. Context: depicts Florence Owens Thompson and her children during the Great Depression in the U.S.
Tank Man
Photographer: Jeff Widener in 1989. Context: captures an unidentified man standing in front of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests.
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon
Photographer: Neil Armstrong (NASA astronaut) in 1969. Context: shows astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission.
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare
Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1932. Context: captures a man leaping across a puddle behind the Paris train station.
D-Day landing on Omaha Beach
Photographer: Robert Capa in 1944. Context: depicts American troops landing on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion in World War II.
Pillars of Creation
Photographer: Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Context: depicts towering columns of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula.
The Falling Man
Photographer: Richard Drew in 2001. Context: captures a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.
V-J Day in Times Square
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.
Loch Ness Monster from Surgeon's Photograph
Photographer: Robert Kenneth Wilson in 1934. Context: Supposed photograph of the Loch Ness Monster, later revealed to be a hoax.
The Pale Blue Dot
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.
Hindenburg Disaster
Photographer: Sam Shere in 1937. Context: captures the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catching fire and being destroyed.
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