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  2. V-J Day in Times Square - Wikipedia

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    V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger [1] —a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") [2] in New York City 's Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of ...

  3. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement. [s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.

  4. 100 Photographs that Changed the World - Wikipedia

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    Gallery. Some of the photos are depicted below. Bloody Saturday – Battle of Shanghai. Cavalry camp near Balaklava – Crimean War. The Valley of the Shadow of Death – Siege of Sevastopol, Crimean War. X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen. View from the Window at Le Gras. The Horse in Motion. Migrant Mother.

  5. Afghan Girl - Wikipedia

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    Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. [1][2][3][4] While the portrait's subject initially remained ...

  6. The Blue Marble - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.

  7. Edward Weston - Wikipedia

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    5, including Brett Weston (1911–1993) and Cole Weston (1919–2003) Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" [1] and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." [2] Over the course of his 40-year career ...

  8. Robert Capa - Wikipedia

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    Life magazine published an article about Hemingway and his time in Spain, along with numerous photos by Capa. [13] In December 2007, three boxes filled with rolls of film, containing 4,500 35mm negatives of the Spanish Civil War by Capa, Taro, and Chim (David Seymour), which had been considered lost since 1939, were discovered in Mexico.

  9. March of Progress - Wikipedia

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    The illustration is part of a section of text and images commissioned by Time-Life Books for the Early Man volume (1965) of the Life Nature Library, by F. Clark Howell. [4] The illustration is a foldout entitled "The Road to Homo Sapiens". It shows a sequence of figures, drawn by natural history painter and muralist Rudolph Zallinger (1919 ...