Shell shocked soldier, 1916
A shell shocked soldier in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette durin…
Tag: Iconic Photos
The priest and the dying soldier, 1962
Navy chaplain Luis Padilla gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire …
Conrad Schumann Defects to West Berlin, 1961: Story and Photos
Conrad Schumann was immortalized in this photograph as he leapt across the barri…
Photographs of Hitler’s triumphant tour of Paris, 1940
One day after France signed the armistice with Germany in June 1940, Adolf Hitle…
The Elephant’s Foot of the Chernobyl disaster, 1986
This image might be one of the most impressive photographs of all time. While it…
A KKK child and a black State Trooper meet each other, 1992
The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curi…
The Weeping Frenchman: The Story Behind an Iconic Image, 1940
Frenchman crying as the flags of fallen France were marched through the streets …
Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture, 1969
Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil A…
August Landmesser: The Lone Man Eefusing to Do the Nazi Salute, 1936
The photo was taken at the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, during a cere…
Saigon execution: Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief, 1968
After Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van…
The naked gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944
This young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission has just jumped into …
Toffs and Toughs – The photo that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937
"Toffs and Toughs" is a 1937 photograph of five boys: two dressed in the Harrow …
A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945
Joe O'Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. mil…
The Kiss of Life – A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967
Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, this photo called "The Kiss of Life" …
The Socialist Fraternal Kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker, 1979
The socialist fraternal kiss became famous via Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhne…
The story behind the “Easter eggs for Hitler” photograph, 1945
The two men in this photograph are Technical Sergeant William E. Thomas and Priv…
Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, 1945
The Russians were coming from the East, the Brits and Americans from the West, a…
French female collaborator punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944
French women who befriended the Nazis, through coerced, forced, or voluntary rel…
Named by Life magazine as the “The Most Beautiful Suicide”: Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the Empire State Building, 1947
This powerful photo taken by Robert C. Wiles was published as a full-page image …
Muhammad Ali knocks out Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome, Houston, 1966
A dramatic overhead shot by Neil Leifer, generally regarded as one of the greate…