The picture that shows the colossal scale of the D-Day operation, 1944
This photograph was taken three days after the Normandy beachhead was establishe…
Tag: Iconic Photos
Diego Maradona scores the infamous Hand of God goal, 1986
Argentina's 2-1 victory over England in front of 115,000 fans on June 22, 1986, …
The real story of the “Wait for me, Daddy” photograph, 1940
“Wait for Me, Daddy” is an iconic photo taken by Claude P. Dettloff on October 1…
Fidel Castro at the Lincoln Memorial, 1959
Shortly after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, he visited the United Sta…
V-J Day Kiss in Times Square: The Story Behind an Iconic Photograph, 1945
After four years of blackout, all the lights in Times Square went on as Mayor La…
A disembodied statue of Joseph Stalin’s head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, 1956
Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his seventieth birthday (December 21s…
Warschauer Kniefall, Willy Brandt falls to his knees, 1970
Those who witnessed the scene were awe-struck: a politician actually displayed h…
The Big Three at the Tehran Conference, 1943
The Tehran was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and W…
Einstein Sticking his Tongue Out: The Story Behind an Iconic Photo, 1951
The shot was taken on Einstein’s 72nd birthday right after an event in his honor…
John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s casket in Washington, 1963
In the wake of JFK’s assassination, people around the world mourned and tried to…
A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning prisoner of war, 1947
These iconic photographs were taken in 1947 at Vienna’s Southern Railway Station…
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated from a Death Train, 1945
It's Friday, the 13th of April, 1945. A few miles northwest of Magdeburg there w…
Kohl and Mitterand in Verdun, 1984
The Battle of Verdun is considered by many the most blood-stained battlefield in…
Omayra Sanchez, young victim of the Armero Tragedy in Colombia, 1985
On November 13, 1985, the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted. Pyroclastic flows exp…
A father comforts his son on his deathbed. The photo that changed the face of AIDS. 1989
This picture is widely considered the photo that changed the face of AIDS. It sh…
Bloody Saturday – a crying Chinese baby amid the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station, 1937
"Bloody Saturday" - Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins …
The burning monk, 1963
In June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himsel…
The Story Behind the Iconic Photo of a Soldier Wearing a Hand-Lettered “War is Hell” Slogan on His Helmet during the Vietnam War in 1965
AP photojournalist Horst Faas took this iconic photo on June 18, 1965, during th…
A mother and her daughter falling from a fire escape, 1975
A nineteen-year-old and her two-year-old niece and goddaughter are hurled off a …
The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967
Mankind's road to the stars had its unsung heroes. One of them was the Soviet co…