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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

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras)	1826	Nicéphore Niépce	Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France	Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph.
	Windows From Inside South Gallery	August 1835	William Henry Fox Talbot	Lacock, England, United Kingdom	The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.
	Boulevard du Temple	1838	Louis Daguerre	Paris, France	The earliest surviving photograph depicting people: a person working as a shoeshiner and an individual having his shoes shined.
	Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man	18 October 1840	Hippolyte Bayard	Paris, France	Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process.
	The Haystack	1844	William Henry Fox Talbot	Lacock, England, United Kingdom	A photograph that appeared in The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published.

1850s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	The Mime Charles Deburau as Pierrot	1854	Nadar	Paris, France	The photograph is part of a series taken during the 1850s.
	Valley of the Shadow of Death	23 April 1855	Roger Fenton	Sevastopol, Crimea	Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.
	Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter	1855	Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall	Unknown
	The Brig	1856	Gustave Le Gray	Normandy, France
	Portrait of Nariakira Shimazu	17 September 1857	Shiro Ichiki	Satsuma Domain, Japan	Oldest daguerreotype by a Japanese author; first photo designated an Important Cultural Property by the government of Japan in 1999.
	Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern	November 1857	Robert Howlett	London, England	Landmark environmental portraiture and iconography of the Industrial Revolution and 19th century.
	Two Ways of Life	1857	Oscar Gustave Rejlander	Wolverhampton, England
	La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene)	1857	Camille Silvy	Nogent-le-Rotrou, France
	Fading Away	1858	Henry Peach Robinson	Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

1860s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Abraham Lincoln	27 February 1860	Mathew Brady	New York City, United States	Taken shortly before Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech. Widely used in his campaign during the 1860 presidential election, both Brady's photo and the speech helped him become president.
	Cathedral Rock	1861	Carleton Watkins	Yosemite National Park, California, United States
	The Dead of Antietam	1862	Alexander Gardner	Antietam, Maryland, United States	Showing the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam—the deadliest single day in the American Civil War
	The Scourged Back	c. 2 April 1863	McPherson & Oliver	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States	One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement.
	Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal	7 July 1865	Alexander Gardner	Washington, D.C., United States
	Portrait of Sir John Herschel	1867	Julia Margaret Cameron	Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom	Herschel would later be the godfather to Cameron's firstborn.
	Beckoning West	10 May 1869	Andrew J. Russell	Promontory, Utah, United States	The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Central Pacific Railroad (left), meets Union Pacific Railroad (right) and exchange bottles of water from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

1870s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Great Falls of the Yellowstone River	1871	William Henry Jackson	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
	Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly	1873	Timothy O'Sullivan	Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, United States
	The Horse in Motion	June 1878	Eadweard Muybridge	Palo Alto, California, United States	Series of cabinet cards regarded as a precursor to motion pictures. Pictured left is the variant Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, which further captured a horse's motion.

1880s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Water Rats	1886	Frank Meadow Sutcliffe	Whitby, England, United Kingdom
	Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street	1888	Jacob Riis	Mulberry Bend, New York City, United States	Part of How the Other Half Lives, an early photojournalist publication pursuing better conditions for the lower class of New York City. The photo and publication's impact was such that they contributed to the crimeridden Bend's replacement with Columbus Park.

1890s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen	1895	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany	The first X-ray, taken by its inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring.
	Portrait of Emil Racoviță	1899	Louis Boutan	Banyuls-sur-Mer, France	First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed for underwater photography.

20th century

1900s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	A Sea of Steps	1903	Frederick H. Evans	Wells Cathedral, England, United Kingdom	One of Evans's finest works in architectural photography.
	First Flight	17 December 1903	John T. Daniels	Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, United States	Captured flight of the first airplane, the Wright Flyer, flown by inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.
	The Vanishing Race–Navaho	1904	Edward S. Curtis	Arizona, United States	Taken during the cultural assimilation of Native Americans while also popularizing the Vanishing Indian stereotype.
	The Pond—Moonlight	1904	Edward Steichen	Mamaroneck, New York, United States	Pictorialist hand-colored photograph; only three versions exist. In 2006, a print became the most expensive photo sold.
	The Steerage	1907	Alfred Stieglitz	Aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom	Landmark modernist photo depicting immigrants on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II.
	Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill	1908	Lewis Hine	Newberry, South Carolina, United States	Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.
	Cactus Hot Air Balloon	1909	Lumière Brothers	Paris, France

1910s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Breaker Boys	1911	Lewis Hine	Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States	Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.
	Triangle Shirtwaist Fire	25 March 1911	Brown Brothers	New York City, United States
	Girl with a Mirror	1912	Clarence H. White	New York City, United States
	Storyville Portrait	1912	E.J. Bellocq	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
	Une Delage au Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France de 1912	1912	Jacques-Henri Lartigue	Dieppe, France	This photo depicts René Croquet [fr], with his riding mechanic.
	Abstraction, Porch Shadows	1916	Paul Strand	Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
	Blind Woman, New York	1916	Paul Strand	New York City, United States

1920s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Armco Steel	1922	Edward Weston	Middletown, Ohio, United States
	Le Violon d'Ingres	1924	Man Ray	Paris, France	The photograph depicts Alice Prin, known as Kiki de Montparnasse, from the back and nude to below her waist. Two f-holes are painted on her back to make her body resemble a violin.
	Movement Study	1926	Rudolf Koppitz	Vienna, Austria
See article	Bricklayer	1928	August Sander	Cologne, Germany
Pastrycook Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Pastry Cook	1928	August Sander	Cologne, Germany
	Woman of Tehuantapec	1929	Tina Modotti	Tehuantepec, Mexico

1930s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Pepper No. 30	2 August 1930	Edward Weston	Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States	With carefully crafted tones of light, this photo of a pepper emphasizes third-dimensional depth while defying conventional interpretations of form.
See article	Larmes	1930	Man Ray	Paris, France	The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears.
	The Hague	3 January 1930	Erich Salomon	The Hague, the Netherlands
	Al Capone Mug Shot	8 May 1930	Miami Police Department	Miami, United States
See article	Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare	1932	Henri Cartier-Bresson	Paris, France
Bruxelles, Belgique Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Brussels	1932	Henri Cartier-Bresson	Brussels, Belgium
Couple, Harlem Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Couple in Raccoon Coats	1932	James Van Der Zee	New York City, United States
Io + gatto Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Io + gatto (I + Cat)	1932	Wanda Wulz	Trieste, Italy
	Lunch atop a Skyscraper	20 September 1932	Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty – see article	New York City, United States
Girl with a Leica Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Girl with a Leica	1934	Alexander Rodchenko	Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Adolf Hitler ascending stairs during rally, Buckeberg, 1934 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally	1934	Heinrich Hoffmann	Bückeburg, Germany
Surgeon's Photograph Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Surgeon's photograph	1934	Ian Wetherell	Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom
THE LADY MILBANKE AS PENTHESILEA, QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Lady Milbanke as 'Queen of the Amazons'	1935	Yevonde Middleton	London, England
	Migrant Mother	6 March 1936	Dorothea Lange	Nipomo, California, United States	The photograph depicts Florence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother during the Great Depression.
Fort Peck Dam, Montana Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Fort Peck Dam	1936	Margaret Bourke-White	Fort Peck, Montana, United States
See article	The Falling Soldier	1936	Robert Capa	Espejo, Spain	The photograph depicts the death of Republican soldier Federico Borrell García in the Spanish Civil War.
Goldfish Bowl, Santorini, Greece Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Goldfish Bowl	1937	Herbert List	Santorini, Greece
The Louisville Flood Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Louisville Flood	1937	Margaret Bourke-White	Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Dancing the Lambeth Walk Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Lambeth Walk	1937	Bill Brandt	London, United Kingdom
	The Hindenburg Disaster	6 May 1937	Sam Shere	Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States	The photograph depicts the Hindenburg Zeppelin on fire at the mooring mast of Lakehurst.
	Bloody Saturday	28 August 1937	H. S. Wong	Shanghai, China	The photograph depicts a baby in bombed-out ruins in Shanghai.
See article	Juvisy, France	1938	Henri Cartier‐Bresson	Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
Mainbocher Corset Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Mainbocher Corset	1939	Horst P. Horst	Paris, France
A DC-4 FLYING OVER NEW YORK CITY Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Aerial View of Manhattan	1939	Margaret Bourke-White	New York City, United States
"Fiesta" turns into tragedy, body of dead man, lies on street, Mulberry St., Little Italy Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Mulberry Street	1939	Weegee	New York City, United States

1940s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico	1 November 1941	Ansel Adams	Hernandez, New Mexico, United States
	The Roaring Lion	30 December 1941	Yousuf Karsh	Ottawa, Canada
Grief Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Grief	1942	Dmitri Baltermants	Kerch, Ukraine
	The Tetons and the Snake River	1942	Ansel Adams	Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States
	American Gothic	August 1942	Gordon Parks	Washington, D.C., United States
	Betty Grable	1943	Frank Powolny	Los Angeles, California, United States
The Critic Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Critic	1943	Weegee	New York City, United States
Bodies of three dead American soldiers lying in the sand on shoreline near half sunken landing craft on Buna Beach Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach	1943	George Strock	Buna, Papua New Guinea
	Warsaw Ghetto boy	1943	Unknown	Warsaw, Poland	Originally titled Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt ("Forcibly pulled out of bunkers")
	Into the Jaws of Death	6 June 1944	Robert F. Sargent	Omaha Beach, France
"MAGNIFICENT 11": ROBERT CAPA Collection restricted due to copyright View slideshow	The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs)	6 June 1944	Robert Capa	Normandy, France
Residents wander cleared streets bisecting the ruins of buildings reduced to piles of rubble by the atomic bomb, dropped a few months earlier Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Atomic Destruction	1945	Bernard Hoffman	Hiroshima, Japan	The photograph was in the first collection depicting the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
Tide Pool, Point Lobos Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Tide Pool, Point Lobos	1945	Edward Weston	Point Lobos, California, United States
General Douglas MacArthur lands in the Philippines at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon, January 9, 1945 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Return to the Philippines	9 January 1945	Carl Mydans	Lingayen Gulf, Philippines
	Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima	23 February 1945	Joe Rosenthal	Iwo Jima, Japan	The photograph depicts the raising of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
	Inside Buchenwald	16 April 1945	Unknown	Ettersberg, Germany
	Raising a Flag over the Reichstag	2 May 1945	Yevgeny Khaldei	Berlin, Germany	The photograph depicts the raising of the Soviet flag during Battle of Berlin.
	Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki	9 August 1945	Charles Levy	Nagasaki, Japan
	V-J Day in Times Square	14 August 1945	Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen)	New York City, United States	The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day.
Mahatma Gandhi Spinning Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel	1946	Margaret Bourke-White	India	The photograph depicts Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel.
THE GREAT ISAIAH SCROLL Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Dead Sea Scrolls	1947	Amit Shabi	Israel	The photograph depicts the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Biblical manuscripts.
Cumulus clouds billow above a stretch of Route 66 in Arizona Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Route 66	1947	Andreas Feininger	Route 66 in Arizona, United States
Barn Owl flying into a Suffolk Barn, taken using a high speed flash system with a flash duration of 1/10,000th. Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Barn Owl with Vole	1947	Eric Hosking	Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
	Babe Ruth Bows Out	13 June 1948	Nat Fein	New York City, United States
	Dalí Atomicus	1948	Philippe Halsman	New York City, United States
Country Doctor Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Country Doctor	1948	W. Eugene Smith	Kremmling, Colorado, United States
GWYNED FILLING Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Career Girl	1948	Leonard McCombe	New York City, United States
Le nu provençal Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Provençal Nude	1949	Willy Ronis	Gordes, France
Sisters at St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie, Penn., watched a program on a new local TV station Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nuns Watching Television	1949	Ralph Morse	Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Portrait of Texas Cowboy Clarence Hailey Long, 1949 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Clarence Hailey Long	1949	Leonard McCombe	Texas, United States

1950s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (French: Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville)	1950	Robert Doisneau	Paris, France
	Albert Einstein	1951	Arthur Sasse	New York City, United States
	Photo 51	May 1952	Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin	London, England	The photograph depicts an X-ray diffraction image providing key to DNA structure.
Los Angeles Development Boom Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Moving to the Suburbs	1952	J.R. Eyerman	Lakewood, California, United States
Announcement of the Death of Stalin, Dynamo Factory, Moscow, March 6, 1953 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Announcement of Stalin's Death	6 March 1953	Dmitri Baltermants	Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Jacqueline Bouvier sitting with her fiance John F. Kennedy on deck of sailboat, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Camelot	1953	Hy Peskin	Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
ED HILLARY AND TENZING NORGAY ON SOUTH EAST RIDGE, APPROACHING THE FINAL CAMP AT 8500M Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Atop Mount Everest	1953	Alfred Gregory	Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal
	Monroe	9 September 1954	Matty Zimmerman	New York City, United States	The photograph depicts Marilyn Monroe while her white dress blows upwards during a shot for a scene in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch.
	Emmett Till's mother at his funeral.	1955	David Jackson	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Dovima with Elephants	1955	Richard Avedon	Paris, France
Trolley—New Orleans Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Trolley – New Orleans	1955	Robert Frank	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Hot Shot east Bound, Iaeger Drive In, Iaeger, West Virginia Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In	1956	O. Winston Link	Iaeger, West Virginia, United States
Elvis on stage Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The New King	1956	Charles Trainor	Miami, Florida, United States
	Milk Drop Coronet	1957	Harold E. Edgerton	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	Two drops of milk imaged by fast-film stroboscopic photography
	First Digital Photo	1957	Russell Kirsch	Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
	Elizabeth Eckford	1957	Will Counts	Little Rock, Arkansas, United States	Eckford as one of the Little Rock Nine who faced opposition while attending a formerly segregated high school.
Aspens, Northern New Mexico Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Aspens, Northern New Mexico	1958	Ansel Adams	New Mexico, United States

1960s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Guerrillero Heroico	5 March 1960	Alberto Korda	Havana, Cuba	The photograph depicts Che Guevara at a funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion. The portrait is commonly displayed as a symbol of student protest and revolutionary movements, and has appeared on clothing and other merchandise.
Julius Shulman - Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, California Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles	1960	Julius Shulman	Los Angeles, California, United States
	Leap into Freedom	15 August 1961	Peter Leibing	Berlin, Germany	The photograph depicts Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier running away over barbed-wire in Berlin.
Firefighters aiming high-pressure water hoses at civil rights demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Birmingham, Alabama	3 May 1963	Charles Moore	Birmingham, Alabama, United States	Nonviolent civil rights movement student activists sprayed by high-pressure fire hoses during the Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade.
Nuit de Noël Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nuit de Noël (Happy Club)	1963	Malick Sidibè	Bamako, Mali
	The Burning Monk	11 June 1963	Malcolm Browne	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	The photograph depicts the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức protesting the persecution of Buddhists under the government of Ngo Dinh Diem by committing self-immolation.
TOPSHOT-US-CIVIL RIGHTS-MARTIN LUTHER KING-MARCH ON WASHINGTON Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	I Have a Dream	28 August 1963	Agence France-Presse	Washington, D.C., United States	The photograph depicts Martin Luther King Jr. waving to supporters during the March on Washington, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, considered the most famous American oration of the twentieth century.
Abraham Zapruder film Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Zapruder film	22 November 1963	Abraham Zapruder	Dallas, Texas, United States	The film depicts the most complete view of the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy.
	Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald	24 November 1963	Robert H. Jackson	Dallas, Texas, United States	The photograph depicts the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby while Oswald was being escorted by police two days after he had assassinated US president John F. Kennedy.
Beatles' Pillow Fight, George V Hotel, Paris Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Pillow Fight	1964	Harry Benson	Paris, France
A young chimp named Flint reaches for ethologist Jane Goodall. Flint was the first infant born in Gombe after Jane's arrival. Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp	1965	Hugo van Lawick	Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
Living 18-week-old fetus shown inside its amniotic sac — placenta is seen at right Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks	1965	Lennart Nilsson	Stockholm, Sweden
Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston	1965	Neil Leifer	Lewiston, Maine, United States
	Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze	1966	Hou Bo	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Reaching Out, Mutter Ridge, Nui Cay Tri, October 5, 1966, printed 1987 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Reaching Out	5 October 1966	Larry Burrows	Mutter's Ridge, Vietnam
Twiggy In Pink Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Mini Moment	3 December 1966	Popperfoto
Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	18 June 1967	Jim Marshall	Monterey, California, United States
See article	Flower Power	21 October 1967	Bernie Boston	Washington, D.C., United States
	Saigon Execution	1 February 1968	Eddie Adams	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
	Massacre of Villagers in My Lai	16 March 1968	Ronald L. Haeberle	Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam
Body of Martin Luther King Jr., Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.	4 April 1968	Joseph Louw	Memphis, Tennessee, United States
See article	Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy	5 June 1968	Bill Eppridge	Los Angeles, California, United States
Warsaw Pact troops invasion. Prague, Czechoslovakia. August, 1968 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Invasion of Prague	August 1968	Josef Koudelka	Prague, Czechia
Black Power Salute 1968 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics	16 October 1968	John Dominis	Mexico City, Mexico
	Earthrise	24 December 1968	William Anders	The Moon	The photograph depicts the Earth and Moon's surface from Apollo 8.
Biafra Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Albino Boy, Biafra	1969	Don McCullin	Biafra
Woodstock Festival #1 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Woodstock	August 1969	Bill Eppridge	Bethel, New York, United States
	Buzz Aldrin on the Moon	21 July 1969	Neil Armstrong	Sea of Tranquility, the Moon
	Apollo 11 Bootprint	21 July 1969	Buzz Aldrin	Sea of Tranquility, the Moon
See article	Altamont	6 December 1969	Unknown	Altamont Speedway, California, United States

1970s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
See article (cropped)	Kent State Shootings	4 May 1970	John Paul Filo	Kent, Ohio, United States
	Elvis Meets Nixon	21 December 1970	Oliver F. Atkins	Washington, D.C., United States
Jackie Onassis, New York Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Windblown Jackie	1971	Ron Galella	New York City, United States
	Nixon in China	26 February 1972	Oliver F. Atkins	Beijing, China
	Napalm attack	8 June 1972	Nick Ut	Trảng Bàng, Vietnam	The photograph depicts a crowd of Vietnamese people running from napalm, among them a girl (later identified as Phan Thi Kim Phuc) who survived by tearing off her burning clothes.
Germany Israel Olympics Attack Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Munich Massacre	5 September 1972	Kurt Strumpf	Munich, Germany
	The Blue Marble	7 December 1972	Ronald Evans or Harrison Schmitt	Space
Bullet through Candle Flame Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame	1973	Doc Edgerton	United States
1974 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Allende's Last Stand	1973	Orlando Lagos	Chile
Water Towers (Wassertürme) Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Water‐Towers	1974–2009	Bernd and Hilla Becher	Various locations across Europe and the United States
9th AUGUST 1974 Washington D. C. USA. President Richard Nixon of the United States gives the V-sign with both hands before boarding the Presidential helicopter to leave the White House for the last time after his resignation speech following the Watergat Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nixon Resignation	9 August 1974	Rolls Press	Washington, D.C., United States
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hand of traditional land owner Vincent Lingiari Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari	1975	Mervyn Bishop	Daguragu, Northern Territory, Australia
See article	Fire Escape Collapse	22 July 1975	Stanley Forman	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The death of Hector Pieterson Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Soweto Uprising	16 June 1976	Sam Nzima	Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
	The Red Planet	21 July 1976	Viking 1	Chrysa Planitia, Mars
	Boat of No Smiles	1977	Eddie Adams	Gulf of Siam
Untitled Film Stills Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Untitled Film Stills	1977–1980	Cindy Sherman	New York City, United States
Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter	1979	Robert Mapplethorpe	New York City, United States
See article	Molotov Man	16 July 1979	Susan Meiselas	Estelí, Nicaragua
	Firing Squad in Iran	27 August 1979	Jahangir Razmi	Kurdistan province, Iran

1980s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
Yoko Ono; John Lennon Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	John Lennon and Yoko Ono	1980	Annie Leibowitz	New York City, United States
Usa Hockey, 1980 Winter Olympics Sports Illustrated Cover Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Miracle on Ice	1980	Heinz Kluetmeier	Lake Placid, New York, United States
Self-Portrait with Wife and Models, 'Vogue' Studios, Paris, 1980 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model	1981	Helmut Newton	Paris, France
Princess of Wales with her Bridesmaids Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace	1981	Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield	London, England
Bengt hits Elisabeth for being a disobedient wife and hiding drugs, which she did hoping to save their marriage, Saddle River, New Jersey Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Behind Closed Doors	1982	Donna Ferrato	Saddle River, New Jersey, United States
Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women) Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)	1982	Nancy Burson	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Michael Jordan Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Michael Jordan	1984	Co Rentmeester	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
	Hole in the Ozone	3 October 1985	NASA	Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California	1986	Alon Reininger	San Francisco, California, United States
See article	Immersion (Piss Christ)	1987	Andres Serrano	United States
1988 Photo Contest, Science & Technology, 2nd prize Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The First Heart Transplant in Poland	1 January 1987	James L. Stanfield	Zabrze, Poland
Gary Hart & Donna Rice Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Monkey Business	1987	National Enquirer	Bimini, the Bahamas
'The Slam Dunk' Michael Jordan, Chicago, IL 1988 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Air Jordan	1988	Walter Iooss	Chicago, Illinois, United States
See article	Tank Man	5 June 1989	Jeff Widener	Beijing, China	The photograph depicts an unidentified protestor confronting column of Chinese military tanks.
Untitled (cowboy) Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Untitled (Cowboy)	1989	Richard Prince	United States
BerlinWall Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Wall Falls	1989	Robert Maass	Berlin, Germany

1990s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
1991 Photo Contest, General News, 2nd prize Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Face of AIDS	1990	Therese Frare	Columbus, Ohio, United States
See article	More Demi Moore	1991	Annie Leibovitz	Culver City, California, United States
1992 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Operation Desert Storm	27 February 1991	David Turnley	Iraq
1992 Photo Contest, General News, 1st prize Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Camels in the Oil Fields	1 March 1991	Steve McCurry	Burgan field, Kuwait
Famine in Somalia Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Famine in Somalia	1992	James Nachtwey	Baidoa, Somalia
See article	Dead Troops Talk	1992	Jeff Wall	Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan
The Photograph Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Bosnia	2 April 1992	Ron Haviv	Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
See article	The Vulture and the Little Girl	March 1993	Kevin Carter	Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan)
The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Spot News Photography Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Oklahoma City Bombing	19 April 1995	Charles Porter IV	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
	Pillars of Creation	1995	Hubble Space Telescope / NASA	Low Earth orbit	The photograph depicts a region of star formation.
Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky	1996	Dirck Halstead	Washington, D.C., United States
	First Cell-Phone Picture	11 June 1997	Philippe Kahn	Santa Cruz, California, United States
See article	99 Cent	1999	Andreas Gursky	Los Angeles, California, United States
Agim Shala Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Kosovo Refugees	3 May 1999	Carol Guzy	Kukës, Albania
USA Brandi Chastain, 1999 World Cup Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	World Cup Winners	1999	Robert Beck	Pasadena, California, United States

21st century

2000s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
2001 Photo Contest, Spot News, 2nd prize Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid	2000	Alan Diaz	Miami, Florida, United States
Surfing Hippos Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Surfing Hippos	2000	Michael Nichols	Loango National Park, Gabon
Sept 11 Bush Classroom Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks	11 September 2001	Doug Mills	Sarasota, Florida, United States
The Moment The Towers Fell Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center	11 September 2001	Patrick Witty	New York City, United States
See article	The Falling Man	11 September 2001	Richard Drew	New York City, United States
Father Mychal Judge is carried from the rubble of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Father Judge	11 September 2001	Shannon Stapleton	New York City, United States
See article	Raising the Flag at Ground Zero	11 September 2001	Thomas E. Franklin	New York City, United States
The washing of the body at the burial of the eight-month-old Sakura Lisi Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Sakura Lisi	2004	Marcus Bleasdale	Mongbwalu, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
	The Hooded Man	2004	Ivan Frederick	Abu Ghraib, Iraq	The photograph depicts Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, an Abu Ghraib prisoner, being subjected to torture.
Coffin ban Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Coffin Ban	2004	Tami Silicio	Kuwait International Airport, Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait
U.S. Troops Mistakenly Kill Iraqi Civilians Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Iraqi Girl	18 January 2005	Chris Hondros	Tal Afar, Iraq
HURRICANE KATRINA REFUGEES Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation	3 September 2005	Eric Gay	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hurricane Katrina	4 September 2005	Robert Galbraith	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Residents are rescued by helicopter from Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hurricane Katrina	2005	David Phillip	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Final Salute Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Jim Comes Home	2005	Todd Heisler	Aurora, Colorado, United States
Oded Balilty of Associated Press Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Power of One	1 February 2006	Oded Bality	Amona, West Bank
2008 Photo Contest, Contemporary Issues, 1st prize Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Gorilla in the Congo	2007	Brent Stirton	Virunga National Park, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Award of Excellence Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery	27 May 2007	John Moore	Arlington, Virginia, United States
Troops Return Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Homecoming	2007	Louie Favorite	Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Swimming, 2008 Summer Olympics Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Photo Finish	16 August 2008	Heinz Kluetmeier	Beijing, China
Newsom Political Future Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Married at Last	2008	Marcio Sanchez	San Francisco, California, United States
Barack Obama Holds Election Night Gathering In Chicago's Grant Park Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The New First Family	2008	Win McNamee	Chicago, Illinois, United States
June 26, 09. At New Journey Ministries Church, in Hawthorne, Edward J. Cobbin (center) is comforted Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Funeral of Edwin Cobbin	2009	Barbara Davidson	Hawthorne, California, United States
See article	Diego Frazão Torquato	2009	Marcos Tristao	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Hair Like Mine	2009	Pete Souza	Washington, D.C., United States
The Death of Neda Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Death of Neda	2009	Unknown	Tehran, Iran

2010s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
test Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	First Instagram Photo	16 July 2010	Kevin Systrom	Mexico	Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram), the BBC, Time, and Life magazine claim the photograph to be the first shared on Instagram, however The Economic Times and The Guardian claim the first photograph posted to the social media to be a picture of San Francisco's South Beach harbor by Mike Krieger, also co-founder. Time later claimed the post of the harbor was the first shared.
	The Situation Room	1 May 2011	Pete Souza	Washington, D.C., United States	The photograph depicts U.S. president Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving live updates from Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
US – ATTACKS – 911 – ANNIVERSARY Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	9/11 Memorial	11 September 2011	Justin Lane	New York City, United States
Mideast Fleeing Syria Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Aida	12 March 2012	Rodrigo Abd	Idlib, Syria
FASHION-NEWYORK Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Fashion Week	7 September 2012	Lucas Jackson	New York City, United States
Shootings as Routine Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Shootings as Routine	14 December 2012	Jessica Hill	Newtown, Connecticut, United States	The photograph shows Carlee Soto using a phone to ask about her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, after gunman Adam Lanza opened fire on the school, killing 26.
Connecticut State Police lead students from the Sandy Hook Elementary School to safety after a mass shooting on Dec. 14, 2012 Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Sandy Hook	14 December 2012	Shannon Hicks	Newtown, Connecticut, United States
CHINA-SOCIAL-SUICIDE Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	China Social Suicide	27 February 2013	Agence France-Presse	Wuhan, Hubei, China
North Korea Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	North Korea	2013	David Guttenfelder	Pyongyang, North Korea
Explosions At 117th Boston Marathon Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Boston Marathon Bombing	2013	John Tlumacki	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
See article	Final Embrace	April 2013	Taslima Akhter	Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
Massacre at Westgate Mall Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nairobi Mall Attack	21 September 2013	Tyler Hicks	Nairobi, Kenya
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Oscars Selfie	2 March 2014	Bradley Cooper	Los Angeles, California, United States	The photograph is a selfie taken at the 2014 Oscars. The image shows Ellen DeGeneres, Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong'o, and her brother, Peter Nyong'o.
TURKEY-MINE-BLAST Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Turkey Mine Blast	13 May 2014	Bülent Kılıç	Soma, Manisa Province, Turkey
	Yarmouk Refugees	2014	UNRWA	Damascus, Syria
See article	Alan Kurdi	2 September 2015	Nilufer Demir	Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey
Turkish coast guard rescues refugees in Turkey's Aydin Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Turkish Coast Guard Rescue	2016	Emin Menguarslan	Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey
WALKING ON THIN ICE. Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Climate Change	2018	Sergio Pitamitz	Svalbard, Norway	The photograph depicts a polar bear standing on a melting ice sheet.

2020s

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Notes	Cited survey(s)
ABD'de Trump destekçileri polis barikatını aşarak Kongre binasına girdi Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Capitol Under Attack	6 January 2021	Tayfun Coskun	Washington, D.C., United States	The photograph depicts the January 6 United States Capitol attack, in which a crowd of the supporters of then-president Donald Trump broke into the United States Capitol to prevent the presidential electoral vote count from certifying opposing candidate Joe Biden as president-elect.
	Out of Afghanistan	29 August 2021	Alexander Burnett	Kabul, Afghanistan	The photograph depicts Chris Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan during the 2021 United States withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan, leading to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

See also

• List of most expensive photographs
• Lists of photographs
• 100 Photographs that Changed the World, 2003 book by the editors of Life
• Fine-art photography
• History of the camera
• History of photography
• Monkey selfie copyright dispute
• People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph
• Pulitzer Prize for Photography
• Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
• Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
• Timeline of first images of Earth from space
• World Press Photo of the Year

Notes

1. Talbot's 1835 photograph has also been referred to as Lacock Oriel Window (Latticed Window) or simply Latticed Window.
2. Also known as Le Noyé (lit. 'The drowned man').
3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates their copy of Talbot's Haystack as "probably 1841". The National Gallery of Canada dates it to April 1844.
4. View full collection of photographs at Wikimedia Commons.
5. If the photographer is Mayall, then the location would be London, England as he was present there at the time.
6. Gustave Le Grey's The Brig is also referred to as Brig on the Water and The Brig in Moonlight.
7. Robert Howlett's image is referred to as Isambard Kingdom Brunel before the Launch of the Leviathan in The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.
8. Alexander Gardener's 1862 The Dead of Antietam is also referred to as Civil War Battlefield or Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam.
9. Also titled Cotton Mill Girl. 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.
10. Also titled Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France, 1912 or Automobile Delage, Grand Prix de l'Automobile-Club de France, Le Tréport, 26 juin 1912 Sources including the Oxford University Press, erronously claimed this photograph to be taken in 1912 (as dated by Lartique himself later) when it took place in 1913. The driver, identified as René Croquet, raced as No. 20 in 1912; he was driving a Théophile Schneider in both races, neither in a Delage. There was no No. 6 in the 1912 race.
11. Also referred to as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut and Abstraction, Shadows of a Veranda, Connecticut.
12. Also dated to 1913 and 1915.
13. 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.
14. Originally captioned "test".

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