13 Photographs That Changed The World
I came upon this absolutely brilliant post called “13 Photographs That Changed The World” While I personally might disagree with the importance of some of the choices, they are nevertheless extremely important as well as wonderfully fascinating.












Pictture 1 : The Photograph That Isn’t as Romantic as You Might Think"V-J Day, Times Square, 1945", a.k.a. "The Kiss"Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945


Picture 2 : The Photograph That Gave a Face to the Great Depression"Migrant Mother"Dorothea Lange, 1936

Picture 3 : The Photograph That Ended a War But Ruined a Life"Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief"Eddie Adams, 1968

Picture 4 : The Photograph That Kept Che Alive"The Corpse of Che Guevara"Freddy Alborta, 1967

Picture 5 : The Photograph That Made the Surreal Real"Dalí Atomicus"Philippe Halsman, 1948

Picture 6 :The Photograph That Raised the Photojournalistic Stakes: "Omaha Beach, Normandy, France"Robert Capa, 1944

Picture 7 : The Photograph That Almost Wasn’t"Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel"Margaret Bourke-White, 1946

Picture 8 : The Photograph That Destroyed an Industry"Hindenburg"Murray Becker, 1937

Picture 9 : The Photograph That Lied"Loch Ness Monster" a.k.a. "The Surgeon’s Photo"Ian Wetherell, 1934

Picture 10 : The Photograph that Allowed Geniuses to Have a Sense of Humor"Einstein with his Tongue Out"Arthur Sasse, 1951

Picture 11 : The Photograph That Brought the Battlefield Home"Federal Dead on the Field of Battle of First Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania"Mathew Brady, 1863

Picture 12 : The Photograph That Saved the Planet"The Tetons - Snake River"Ansel Adams, 1942