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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—but they are all considered key images in the history of photography.

19th century

Before 1850

Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, 1826.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph.^[1]

Original
Enhanced

William Henry Fox Talbot, Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey, August 1835.^[a]^[3]^{[s 1]}
The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.^[3]^[4]

Original paper negative
Enhanced positive

Louis Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, 1838.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}
The earliest surviving photograph depicting a person.^[5]
Hippolyte Bayard, Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man (Le Noyé), 1840.^{[s 1]}

Original
Enhanced

William Henry Fox Talbot, The Haystack, 1844.^[b]^{[s 1]}

1850s

Nadar, The Mime Charles Debureau as Pierrot, 1854.^{[s 1]}

Roger Fenton, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855.^{[s 2]}
John Mayall, Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter, 1855.^{[s 1]}
Gustave Le Gray, The Brig, 1856.^{[s 1]}^[c]
Robert Howlett, Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern,^[d] 1857.^{[s 1]}
Shiro Ichiki, Portrait of Nariakira Shimazu, 1857.^{[s 1]}
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Two Ways of Life, 1857.^{[s 1]}
Camille Silvy, La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene), 1857.^{[s 1]}
Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858.^{[s 1]}

1860s

Mathew Brady, Abraham Lincoln, 1860.^{[s 2]}^{[s 4]}
James Wallace, First Aerial Photograph,^[11] 13 October 1860.^{[s 2]}
Carleton Watkins, Cathedral Rock, 1861.^{[s 2]}
Alexander Gardner, The Dead of Antietam,^[e] 1862.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
McAllister & Brothers, Gordon (The Scourged Back), 1863^{[s 3]}
Alexander Gardner, Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal, 1865.^{[s 1]}
Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of Sir John Herschel, 1867.^{[s 1]}
Andrew J. Russell, Beckoning West, 1869.^{[s 3]}

1870s

William Henry Jackson, Lower Yellowstone Falls, 1871.^{[s 3]}
Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly, 1873.^{[s 1]}
Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}

1880s

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Water Rats, 1886.^{[s 1]}
Jacob Riis, Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street, 1888.^{[s 2]}

1890s

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen, "Hand with ring", 1895.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Clarence H. White, Girl with a Mirror, 1898.^{[s 1]}
Louis Boutan, First Underwater Photo, 1899.^{[s 3]}

20th century

1900s

Frederick Evans, A Sea of Steps (Wells Cathedral), 1903.^{[s 1]}
John T. Daniels, First Flight, 1903.^{[s 3]}
Edward S. Curtis, The Vanishing Race, 1904.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}
Edward Steichen, The Pond—Moonlight, 1904.^{[s 2]}
Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}
Passengers on steerage decks on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II.^[12]
Lewis Hine, Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill,^[f] 1908.^{[s 2]}
Lumiere Brothers, Cactus Hot Air Balloon, 1909.^{[s 3]}

1910s

Lewis Hine, Breaker Boys, 1911.^{[s 3]}
Brown Brothers, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911.^{[s 3]}
E.J. Bellocq, Prostitute, New Orleans, 1912.^{[s 1]}
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France, 1912.^{[s 1]}
Paul Strand, Abstraction, Porch Shadows,^[g] 1916.^[h]^{[s 1]}
Paul Strand, Blind Woman, New York, 1916.^{[s 2]}

1920s

Edward Weston, Armco Steel, 1922.^{[s 1]}
Man Ray, Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres’ Violin), 1924.^{[s 1]}
Rudolf Koppitz, Movement Study, 1926.^{[s 1]}
August Sander, Bricklayer, 1928.^{[s 2]}
August Sander, The Pastry Cook, 1928.^{[s 1]}
Tina Modotti, Woman of Tehuantapec, 1929.^{[s 1]}

1930s

Edward Weston, Pepper No. 30, 1930.^{[s 3]}
Man Ray, Glass Tears, 1930.^{[s 1]}^{[s 3]}
Miami police department, Al Capone Mug Shot, 1931.^{[s 3]}^[14]
Erich Salomon, The Hague, 1930.^{[s 2]}
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Place de l'Europe (Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare), 1932.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brussels, 1932.^{[s 1]}
James VanDerZee, Couple in Raccoon Coats, 1932.^{[s 2]}
Wanda Wulz, Io + gatto (I + Cat), 1932.^{[s 1]}
Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932. (Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty - see article) ^{[s 2]}
Alexander Rodchenko, Girl with a Leica, 1934.^{[s 1]}
Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally, 1934.^{[s 2]}
Ian Wetherell, Loch Ness Monster, 1934.^{[s 2]}
Madame Yevonde, Lady Milbanke as ‘Queen of the Amazons’, 1935.^{[s 1]}
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 4]}
Florence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother in Great Depression.^[15]
Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam, 1936.^{[s 2]}
Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam Liner, 1936.^{[s 3]}
Robert Capa, The Falling Soldier (Death in Spain), 1936.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
Death of Republican soldier Federico Borrell García in the Spanish Civil War.^[16]
Herbert List, Goldfish Bowl, 1937.^{[s 1]}
Margaret Bourke-White, The Louisville Flood, 1937.^{[s 3]}
Sam Shere, The Hindenburg Disaster, 6 May 1937.^{[s 2]}^{[s 5]}
Zeppelin on fire at the mooring mast of Lakehurst.^[17]
H. S. Wong, Bloody Saturday, 28 August 1937.^{[s 2]}
Baby in bombed-out ruins in Shanghai.^[18]
Henri Cartier‐Bresson, Sunday on the Banks of the Marne, also known as Juvisy, France, 1938.^{[s 1]}
Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, 1939.^{[s 1]}
Margaret Bourke-White, Aerial View of Manhattan, 1939.^{[s 3]}
Bill Brandt, The Lambeth Walk, c. 1939.^{[s 1]}
Weegee, Mulberry Street, 1939.^{[s 3]}

1940s

Edward Weston, Tide Pool, 1940.^{[s 1]}
Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, 1942.^{[s 3]}
Yousuf Karsh, The Roaring Lion, Winston Churchill, 1941.^{[s 2]}^{[s 5]}
Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1 November 1941.^{[s 1]}
Dmitri Baltermants, Grief, 1942.^{[s 2]}
Gordon Parks, Ella Watson (American Gothic), 1942.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Frank Powolny, Betty Grable, 1943.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
George Strock, Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach, 1943.^{[s 1]}^{[s 3]}
Unknown, Jewish Boy Surrenders in Warsaw, 1943.^{[s 2]}
Weegee, The Critic, 1943.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}
Robert Capa, The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photos), 6 June 1944.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Robert F. Sargent, Into the Jaws of Death, 6 June 1944.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Bernard Hoffman, Atomic Destruction, 1945.^{[s 3]}
Carl Mydans, Return to the Philippines, 1945.^{[s 3]}
Unknown, Inside Buchenwald, 1945.^{[s 3]}
Joe Rosenthal, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, 23 February 1945.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
Raising U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.^[19]
Yevgeny Khaldei, Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, 2 May 1945.^{[s 2]}
Raising Soviet flag during Battle of Berlin.^[20]
Lieutenant Charles Levy, Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, 9 August 1945.^{[s 2]}^{[s 4]}
Alfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day in Times Square, 14 August 1945.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
"In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers".^[21]
Margaret Bourke-White, Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel, 1946.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel.^[22]
Amit Shabi, Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947.^{[s 3]}
Andreas Feininger, Route 66, 1947.^{[s 3]}
Eric Hosking, Barn Owl with Vole, 1948.^{[s 1]}
Nat Fein, The Babe Bows Out, 1948.^{[s 2]}
Philippe Halsman, Dalí Atomicus, 1948.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
W. Eugene Smith, Country Doctor, 1948.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Leonard McCombe, Career Girl, 1948.^{[s 3]}
Willy Ronis, Provençal Nude, 1949.^{[s 1]}
Ralph Morse, Nuns Watching Television, 1949.^{[s 3]}
Leonard McCombe, Clarence Hailey Long, 1949.^{[s 3]}

1950s

Robert Doisneau, The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville), 1950.^{[s 1]}
Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling, X-ray diffraction, 1951.^{[s 3]}^{[s 4]}
X-ray diffraction image providing key to DNA structure.^[23]
Arthur Sasse, Albert Einstein, 1951.^{[s 5]}
J.R. Eyerman, Trouble in Lakewood, 1952.^{[s 3]}
Dmitri Baltermants, The Announcement of Stalin's Death, 1953.^{[s 1]}
Hy Peskin, Camelot, 1953.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Alfred Gregory, Atop Mount Everest, 1953.^{[s 3]}
Matty Zimmerman, Monroe, 1954.^{[s 5]}
Marilyn Monroe's white dress blowing upwards during a shot for a scene in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch.
David Jackson, Emmett Till, 1955.^{[s 2]}^{[s 4]}
Richard Avedon, Dovima with Elephants, 1955.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Robert Frank, Trolley – New Orleans, 1955.^{[s 2]}
O. Winston Link, Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In, 1956.^{[s 1]}
Charles Trainer, The New King, 1956.^{[s 3]}
Harold E. Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet, 1957.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Russell Kirsch, First Digital Photo, 1957.^{[s 3]}
Will Counts, Elizabeth Eckford, 1957.^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}
Ansel Adams, Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958.^{[s 1]}

1960s

Alberto Korda, Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara), 5 March 1960.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
Che Guevara at funeral for victims of La Coubre explosion.^[24]
Julius Shulman, Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles, 1960.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Peter Leibing, Leap into Freedom, 15 August 1961.^{[s 2]}
Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier running away over barbed-wire in Berlin.^[25]
Charles Moore, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Malick Sidibè, Nuit de Noël (Happy Club), 1963.^{[s 2]}
Malcolm Browne, The Burning Monk (Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation), 11 June 1963.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}
John F. Kennedy said "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one." Malcolm Browne went on to win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize.^{[s 2]}
NPS, "I Have a Dream", 28 August 1963.^{[s 3]}
Abraham Zapruder, Zapruder film of the John F. Kennedy assassination, 22 November 1963.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Robert H. Jackson, Lee Harvey Oswald, 24 November 1963.^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
Harry Benson, Pillow Fight, 1964.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Hugo van Lawick, Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp, 1965.^{[s 6]}
Lennart Nilsson, New View of Life, Fetus 18-Weeks, 1965.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Neil Leifer, Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston, 1965.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}
Hou Bo, Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze, 1966.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}
Larry Burrows, Reaching Out, 1966.^{[s 3]}
Mary Quant, Twiggy, 1966.^{[s 3]}
Bernie Boston, Flower Power, 21 October 1967.^{[s 3]}
D.A. Pennebaker, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967.^{[s 3]}
Eddie Adams, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon, 1 February 1968.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 4]}^{[s 6]}
Ronald L. Haeberle, Massacre of Villagers in My Lai, 16 March 1968.^{[s 1]}
Joseph Louw, Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1968.^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}
Bill Eppridge, Assassination of Robert Kennedy, 5 June 1968.^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}
Josef Koudelka, Invasion of Prague, 1968.^{[s 2]}
John Dominis, Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics, 16 October 1968.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}
William Anders, Earthrise, 24 December 1968.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 4]}
Earth and Moon's surface from Apollo 8.^[26]
Don McCullin, Albino Boy, Biafra, 1969.^{[s 2]}
Bill Eppridge, Woodstock, 1969.^{[s 3]}
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, 21 July 1969.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 bootprint, 21 July 1969.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Unknown, Altamont, 6 December 1969.^{[s 3]}

1970s

John Paul Filo, Kent State Shootings, 1970.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 4]}
Ollie Atkins, Elvis Meets Nixon, 1970^{[s 3]}
Ron Galella, Windblown Jackie, 1971.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Harrison Schmitt, The Blue Marble. Earth from Apollo 17, 1972.^[27]
Ollie Atkins, Nixon in China, 1972.^{[s 3]}
Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut, Napalm attack, 1972.^[i]^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 4]}^{[s 6]}
This image shows a Vietnamese girl (later identified as Phan Thi Kim Phuc) running from napalm.^[28]
Kurt Strumpf, Munich Massacre, 1972.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Harold E. Edgerton, Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame, 1973.^{[s 1]}
Luis Orlando Lagos, Allende's Last Stand, 1973.^{[s 2]}
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water‐Towers, 1974.^{[s 1]}
Rolls Press, Nixon Resignation, 1974.^{[s 6]}
Mervyn Bishop, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari, 1975.^{[s 1]}
Stanley Forman, Fire Escape Collapse, 1975.^{[s 2]}
Sam Nzima, Soweto Uprising (Hector Pieterson), 1976.^{[s 2]}
Viking 1, The Red Planet, 1976.^{[s 3]}
Jim Britt, Sisters, 1976.
Eddie Adams, Boat of No Smiles, 1977.^{[s 2]}
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Stills, 1977–1980.^{[s 2]}^{[s 4]}
Jahangir Razmi, Firing Squad in Iran, 1979.^{[s 2]}
Robert Mapplethorpe, Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter, 1979.^{[s 2]}
Susan Meiselas, Molotov Man, 1979.^{[s 2]}

1980s

Annie Leibowitz, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1980.^{[s 1]}
Heinz Kluetmeier, Miracle on Ice, 1980.^{[s 6]}
Helmut Newton, Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model, 1981.^{[s 1]}
Patrick Lichfield, Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace, 1981.^{[s 3]}
Donna Ferrato, Behind Closed Doors, 1982.^{[s 2]}
Nancy Burson, Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women), 1982.^{[s 2]}
Co Rentmeester, Michael Jordan, 1984.^{[s 2]}
Steve McCurry, Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, 1984
NASA, Hole in the Ozone, 1985.^{[s 3]}
Alon Reininger, Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California, 1986.^{[s 6]}
Andres Serrano, Immersions (Piss Christ), 1987.^{[s 1]}^{[s 2]}
James L. Stanfield, The First Heart Transplant in Poland, 1987.^{[s 6]}
National Enquirer, Monkey Business, 1987.^{[s 3]}
Walter Iooss Jr., Air Jordan, 1988.^{[s 3]}
Jeff Widener, Tank Man, 1989.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]} Man confronting column of tanks.^[29]
Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy), 1989.^{[s 2]}
Robert Maass, The Wall Falls, 1989.^{[s 3]}

1990s

Therese Frare, The Face of AIDS, 1990.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Annie Leibovitz, Demi Moore, 1991.^{[s 2]}
David Turnley, Operation Desert Storm, 1991.^{[s 6]}
Steve McCurry, Camels in the Oil Fields, 1991.^{[s 6]}
James Nachtwey, Famine in Somalia, 1992.^{[s 2]}
Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk, 1992.^{[s 1]}
Ron Haviv, Bosnia, 1992.^{[s 2]}
Kevin Carter, The Vulture and the Little Girl, 1993.^{[s 2]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}
Charles Porter, Oklahoma City Bombing, 1995.^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}
Hubble Space Telescope / NASA, Pillars of Creation, 1995.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Region of star formation.^[30]
Dirck Halstead, Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky, 1996.^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
Charles O'Rear, Bliss, 1996.
Philippe Kahn, First Cell-Phone Picture, 1997.^{[s 2]}
Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon, 1999.^{[s 2]}
Carol Guzy, Kosovo Refugees, 1999.^{[s 6]}
Robert Beck, World Cup Winners, 1999.^{[s 3]}

21st century

2000s

Alan Diaz, Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid, 2000.^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}
Michael Nichols, Surfing Hippos, 2000.^{[s 2]}
Doug Mills, President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks, 2001.^{[s 6]}
Patrick Witty, New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, 2001.^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}
Richard Drew, The Falling Man, 2001.^{[s 2]}^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}
Shannon Stapleton, Father Judge, 2001.^{[s 6]}
Thomas E. Franklin, Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, 2001.^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}
Marcus Bleasdale, Sakura Lisi, 2004.^{[s 6]}
Sgt. Ivan Frederick, The Hooded Man, 2004.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, an Abu Ghraib prisoner, being subjected to torture.^[31]
Tami Silicio, Coffin Ban, 2004.^{[s 2]}
Chris Hondros, Iraqi Girl, 2005.^{[s 2]}^{[s 6]}
Eric Gay, Hurricane Katrina Evacuation, 2005.^{[s 6]}
Robert Galbraith, Hurricane Katrina, 2005.^{[s 6]}
David Phillip, Hurricane Katrina, 2005.^{[s 3]}
Todd Heisler, Jim Comes Home, 2005.^{[s 6]}
Brent Stirton, Gorilla in the Congo, 2007.^{[s 2]}
John Moore, Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, 2007.^{[s 6]}
Louie Favorite, Homecoming, 2007.^{[s 6]}
Oded Bality, The Power of One, 2007.^{[s 6]}
Heinz Kluetmeier, Photo Finish, 2008.^{[s 3]}
Marcio Sanchez, Married at Last, 2008.^{[s 3]}
Win McNamee, The New First Family, 2008.^{[s 3]}
Barbara Davidson, Funeral of Edwin Cobbin, 2009.^{[s 6]}
Marcos Tristao, Diego Frazão Torquato, 2009.^{[s 6]}
Pete Souza, Hair Like Mine, 2009.^{[s 6]}
Unknown, The Death of Neda, 2009.^{[s 2]}

2010s

Kevin Systrom, First Instagram Photo, 2010.^{[s 3]}
Justin Lane, 9/11 Memorial, 2011.^{[s 6]}
Pete Souza, The Situation Room, 2011.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
President Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room.
Jessica Hill, Newtown Massacre, 2012.^{[s 6]}
Lucas Jackson, Fashion Week, 2012.^{[s 6]}
Rodrigo Abd, Aida, 2012.^{[s 6]}
Shannon Hicks, Sandy Hook, 2012.^{[s 3]}^{[s 5]}
AFP, China Social Suicide, 2013.^{[s 6]}
David Guttenfelder, North Korea, 2013.^{[s 2]}
John Tlumacki, Boston Marathon Bombing, 2013.^{[s 5]}^{[s 6]}
Taslima Akhter, Final Embrace, 2013.^{[s 6]}
Tyler Hicks, Nairobi Mall Attack, 2013.^{[s 6]}
Bradley Cooper, Oscars Selfie, 2014.^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}
Bülent Kiliç, Turkey Mine Blast, 2014.^{[s 6]}
UNRWA, Yarmouk Refugees, 2014.^{[s 6]}
Nilufer Demir, Alan Kurdi, 2015^{[s 2]}^{[s 3]}^{[s 6]}
Emin Menguarslan, Turkish Coast Guard Rescue, 2016.^{[s 6]}
Sergio Pitamitz, Climate Change, 2018.^{[s 3]}
David Nadlinger, Single Atom in an Ion Trap, 2018.^[32]

2020s

Tayfun Coskun, Capitol Under Attack, 2021.^{[s 3]}

United States Air Force, Out of Afghanistan, 2021.^{[s 3]}

The 45th former President of the United States of America, Donald John Trump's mugshot, with the booking number and title “P01135809”, 2023.

Notes

^ Talbot's 1835 photograph has also been referred to as Lacock Oriel Window (Latticed Window)^{[s 1]} or simply Latticed Window.^[2]
^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates their copy of Talbot's Haystack as "probably 1841".^[6] The National Gallery of Canada dates it to April 1844.^[7]
^ Gustave Le Grey's The Brig is also referred to as Brig on the Water^[8]^[9] and The Brig in Moonlight.^[10]
^ Robert Howlett's image is referred to as Isambard Kingdom Brunel before the Launch of the Leviathan in The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.
^ Alexander Gardener's 1862 The Dead of Antietam is also referred to as Civil War Battlefield or Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam.
^ The collection item for the Library of Congress gives a much longer title that includes commentary from the photographer: A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her "sides" like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was pathetic, "She just happened in." Then a moment later he repeated the information. The mills appear to be full of youngsters that "just happened in," or " are helping sister." Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina.^[13]
^ Also referred to as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut and Abstraction, Shadows of a Veranda, Connecticut.
^ Also dated to 1913 and 1915.
^ Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut's 1972 Napalm attack is also referred to as The Terror of War, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, or Vietnam children after napalm attack.

Sources

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x "25 of the most iconic photographs". CNN. September 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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^ Clarke, Graham (8 May 1997). The Photograph. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-19-284200-8.
^ ^a ^b "[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
^ "Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey. 1937-361. Science Museum Group Collection Online". Science Museum Group. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
^ Dhaliwal, Ranjit. "The birth of the daguerrotype – picture of the day". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
^ "William Henry Fox Talbot | The Haystack". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
^ "William Henry Fox Talbot | The Haystack". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
^ "Brig on the Water". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ "Brig on the Water". Princeton University Art Museum. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ "Gustave Le Gray, The Brig". Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ In fact, the oldest aerial photo was taken by Nadar in 1858 and showed a panorama of Paris, but it has not survived to our times. Nadar's other surviving photograph of Paris dates from 1866. Walles' photo shows Boston.
^ Arikoglu, Lale (5 November 2015). "Who Were They? The Truth Behind Stieglitz's Iconic Photograph 'The Steerage' Revealed". Observer. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017.
^ "A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her "sides" like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was pathetic, "She just happened in." Then a moment later he repeated the information. The mills appear to be full of youngsters that "just happened in," or " are helping sister." Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine". Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
^ "[Two "mug shots" of Al Capone made by the Miami police; head-and-shoulders portrait facing right and head-and-shoulders portrait facing front]". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ "Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed'". CNN. 3 December 2008. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
^ Jamieson, Alastair (21 September 2008). "Robert Capa 'faked' war photo new evidence produced". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2009. Looking at the photos it is clear that it is not the heat of battle. It is likely the soldiers were carrying out an exercise either for Capa or themselves.
^ "See The Photo That Forever Changed Air Travel". 100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time.
^ "The Camera Overseas: 136,000,000 People See This Picture of Shanghai's South Station". Life. Vol. 3, no. 14. Time, Inc. 4 October 1937. pp. 102–103. ISSN 0024-3019.
^ Buell, Hal (2006). Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue: Iwo Jima and the Photograph that Captured America. Berkeley, California: Berkeley Publishing Group/Penguin Group. pp. 104, 221. ISBN 978-0-425-20980-6. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014.
^ Sontheimer, Michael (5 July 2008). "The Art of Soviet Propaganda: Iconic Red Army Reichstag Photo Faked". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
^ "Greta Zimmer Friedman dies; kissed sailor in World War II iconic photo". The Washington Times. 11 September 2016. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
^ "How One Photo Turned Gandhi Into An Icon". 100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time.
^ Krock, Lexi (22 April 2003). "Anatomy of Photo 51". NOVA online. PBS. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010.
^ Communists, Capitalists still buy into Iconic Che Photo, Author says Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine by Brian Byrnes, CNN, 5 May 2009
^ "How A Photographer Captured The Line Between Freedom and Repression". 100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time.
^ Rowell, Galen. "The Earthrise Photograph". ABC. Archived from the original on 26 August 2013.
^ "Apollo 17: The Blue Marble". ehartwell.com. 25 April 2007. Archived from the original on 16 May 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
^ "Vietnam war's 'napalm girl' Kim Phuc has laser treatment to heal wounds". The Guardian. Associated Press. 25 October 2015. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
^ Alfano, Sean (4 June 2009). ""Tank Man": The Picture That Almost Wasn't". CBS News. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011.
^ Moskowitz, Clara (1 September 2014). "An Origin Story, How the Iconic Pillars of Creation Arose". Scientific American: 21. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-21. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016.
^ "Former detainee blames trauma on US captors", The Washington Post; accessed 5 January 2019.
^ "Remarkable Photo of a Single Atom Wins Science Photography Contest". 14 February 2018.

[6] Talbot's 1835 photograph has also been referred to as Lacock Oriel Window (Latticed Window)^{[s 1]} or simply Latticed Window.^[2]

[12] The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates their copy of Talbot's Haystack as "probably 1841".^[6] The National Gallery of Canada dates it to April 1844.^[7]

[16] Gustave Le Grey's The Brig is also referred to as Brig on the Water^[8]^[9] and The Brig in Moonlight.^[10]

[17] Robert Howlett's image is referred to as Isambard Kingdom Brunel before the Launch of the Leviathan in The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.

[20] Alexander Gardener's 1862 The Dead of Antietam is also referred to as Civil War Battlefield or Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam.

[23] The collection item for the Library of Congress gives a much longer title that includes commentary from the photographer: A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her "sides" like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was pathetic, "She just happened in." Then a moment later he repeated the information. The mills appear to be full of youngsters that "just happened in," or " are helping sister." Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina.^[13]

[24] Also referred to as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut and Abstraction, Shadows of a Veranda, Connecticut.

[25] Also dated to 1913 and 1915.

[42] Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut's 1972 Napalm attack is also referred to as The Terror of War, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, or Vietnam children after napalm attack.

[oxford-companion-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb ^bc ^bd ^be ^bf ^bg ^bh ^bi ^bj ^bk ^bl ^bm ^bn ^bo ^bp ^bq "Chronology". Oxford Companion to the Photograph. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-866271-6. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

[time100-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb ^bc ^bd ^be ^bf ^bg ^bh ^bi ^bj ^bk ^bl ^bm ^bn ^bo ^bp ^bq ^br ^bs ^bt ^bu ^bv ^bw ^bx ^by ^bz ^ca ^cb ^cc ^cd ^ce ^cf ^cg ^ch ^ci ^cj ^ck ^cl ^cm ^cn ^co ^cp ^cq ^cr ^cs ^ct ^cu ^cv ^cw ^cx ^cy ^cz "100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time". Time. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

[life100-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb ^bc ^bd ^be ^bf ^bg ^bh ^bi ^bj ^bk ^bl ^bm ^bn ^bo ^bp ^bq ^br ^bs ^bt ^bu ^bv ^bw ^bx ^by ^bz ^ca ^cb ^cc ^cd ^ce ^cf ^cg ^ch ^ci ^cj ^ck ^cl ^cm ^cn ^co ^cp ^cq ^cr ^cs ^ct ^cu ^cv ^cw ^cx "The 100 Most Important Photos Ever". Life. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

[the-atlantic-18] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "What Was the Most Influential Photograph in History?". The Atlantic. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

[cnn-photos-27] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x "25 of the most iconic photographs". CNN. September 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

[esquire-photos-37] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av Griffin, Elizabeth (28 March 2016). "50 of the World's Most Remarkable Photographs". Esquire. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

[fCzsh-4] "100 Photographs that Changed the World". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved 14 January 2012.

[5cK1y-5] Clarke, Graham (8 May 1997). The Photograph. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-19-284200-8.

[oriel-window-7] "[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 23 February 2020.

[Windows_From_Inside-8] "Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey. 1937-361. Science Museum Group Collection Online". Science Museum Group. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

[birth_of_the_daguerrotype-9] Dhaliwal, Ranjit. "The birth of the daguerrotype – picture of the day". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 February 2020.

[William_Henry_Fox_Talbot-10] "William Henry Fox Talbot | The Haystack". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

[National_Gallery_of_Canada-11] "William Henry Fox Talbot | The Haystack". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

[Heilbrunn_Timeline_of_Art-13] "Brig on the Water". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

[Brig_on_the_Water-14] "Brig on the Water". Princeton University Art Museum. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

[Gustave_Le_Gray-15] "Gustave Le Gray, The Brig". Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

[19] In fact, the oldest aerial photo was taken by Nadar in 1858 and showed a panorama of Paris, but it has not survived to our times. Nadar's other surviving photograph of Paris dates from 1866. Walles' photo shows Boston.

[viNVF-21] Arikoglu, Lale (5 November 2015). "Who Were They? The Truth Behind Stieglitz's Iconic Photograph 'The Steerage' Revealed". Observer. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017.

[22] "A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her "sides" like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was pathetic, "She just happened in." Then a moment later he repeated the information. The mills appear to be full of youngsters that "just happened in," or " are helping sister." Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine". Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

[26] "[Two "mug shots" of Al Capone made by the Miami police; head-and-shoulders portrait facing right and head-and-shoulders portrait facing front]". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

[FXjma-28] "Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed'". CNN. 3 December 2008. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2008.

[OHQpm-29] Jamieson, Alastair (21 September 2008). "Robert Capa 'faked' war photo new evidence produced". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2009. Looking at the photos it is clear that it is not the heat of battle. It is likely the soldiers were carrying out an exercise either for Capa or themselves.

[GgcMS-30] "See The Photo That Forever Changed Air Travel". 100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time.

[fZUrY-31] "The Camera Overseas: 136,000,000 People See This Picture of Shanghai's South Station". Life. Vol. 3, no. 14. Time, Inc. 4 October 1937. pp. 102–103. ISSN 0024-3019.

[UQmtw-32] Buell, Hal (2006). Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue: Iwo Jima and the Photograph that Captured America. Berkeley, California: Berkeley Publishing Group/Penguin Group. pp. 104, 221. ISBN 978-0-425-20980-6. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014.

[ewEs8-33] Sontheimer, Michael (5 July 2008). "The Art of Soviet Propaganda: Iconic Red Army Reichstag Photo Faked". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 3 June 2011.

[V3ZBl-34] "Greta Zimmer Friedman dies; kissed sailor in World War II iconic photo". The Washington Times. 11 September 2016. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

[Ujbig-35] "How One Photo Turned Gandhi Into An Icon". 100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time.

[XqRiZ-36] Krock, Lexi (22 April 2003). "Anatomy of Photo 51". NOVA online. PBS. Archived from the original on 29 July 2010.

[tjD9l-38] Communists, Capitalists still buy into Iconic Che Photo, Author says Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine by Brian Byrnes, CNN, 5 May 2009

[qMVjN-39] "How A Photographer Captured The Line Between Freedom and Repression". 100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time.

[1Tsbw-40] Rowell, Galen. "The Earthrise Photograph". ABC. Archived from the original on 26 August 2013.

[NASAmarble-41] "Apollo 17: The Blue Marble". ehartwell.com. 25 April 2007. Archived from the original on 16 May 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008.

[ztz63-43] "Vietnam war's 'napalm girl' Kim Phuc has laser treatment to heal wounds". The Guardian. Associated Press. 25 October 2015. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2016.

[pI6Rq-44] Alfano, Sean (4 June 2009). ""Tank Man": The Picture That Almost Wasn't". CBS News. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011.

[Q0AnX-45] Moskowitz, Clara (1 September 2014). "An Origin Story, How the Iconic Pillars of Creation Arose". Scientific American: 21. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0914-21. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016.

[urZxv-46] "Former detainee blames trauma on US captors", The Washington Post; accessed 5 January 2019.

[47] "Remarkable Photo of a Single Atom Wins Science Photography Contest". 14 February 2018.

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