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| x Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper |
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Construction of the RCA Building |
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the RCA Building (renamed as the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center.
The...
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| x Bliss |
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Bliss is the name of a BMP image produced from a photograph of a landscape in Sonoma County, California, southeast of Sonoma Valley near the site of the old Clover Stornetta Inc. Dairy. It is so named because it contains rolling green hills and a...
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| x Dancing Man |
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The Dancing Man is the name given to the man who was filmed dancing on the street in Sydney, Australia, after the end of World War II. On 15 August 1945, a reporter took note of a man's joyful expression and dance and asked him to do it again. The...
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| x Raising the Flag at Ground Zero |
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September 11, 2001 attacks |
Raising the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Bergen Record, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the American flag at ground zero of the World Trade Center following...
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| x Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath |
Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath is a renowned photograph taken by famed American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith in 1971. Many commentators regard Tomoko as Smith's greatest work. The black and white photo depicts a mother cradling her severely deformed,...
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| x Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906 |
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1906 San Francisco earthquake |
Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906 is a black and white photograph taken by Arnold Genthe in San Francisco, California on the morning of April 18, 1906 in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Looking Down...
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| x Yo Mama's Last Supper |
Yo Mama's Last Supper is a controversial work of art by Renée Cox. It is a montage of five photographs of 12 men (11 black, 1 white) and a naked black woman (the artist's self portrait) posed in imitation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last...
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| x Red ceiling |
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The Red Ceiling is the title of a photograph by William Eggleston. It is also known as Greenwood, Mississippi, 1973 after the location and year it was taken.
A dye transfer print measuring 13 7/8 by 21 11/16 inches, Eggleston considers it among his...
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| x Burst of Joy |
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Vietnam War |
Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California. The photograph came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the...
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| x Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika |
Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika is a photograph taken by Martin Munkácsi in 1929 or 1930.
While Munkácsi is known for his fashion photography, he established his reputation with his news photography that was mostly published in German weeklies. This...
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| x Migrant Mother of 6, Age 32, Now Living in California | |||||
| x Tennis Girl |
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The Tennis Girl poster is a hugely popular iconic poster. It shows a young woman from behind walking towards the net of a tennis court with a tennis racquet in her right hand and her left hand reaching behind lifting her short tennis dress, showing...
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| x The Mad Bluebird |
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The Mad Bluebird is a famous picture of a bluebird taken by professional photographer Michael L. Smith in 1979.
Smith, an electrician by trade, is an avid birdwatcher who had spent many years worth of summer nights camping in outdoor conditions...
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| x Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park |
Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York City, USA (1962) is a famous photograph by Diane Arbus.
The photo shows a boy, with the left strap of his jumper awkwardly hanging off his shoulder, tensely holding his long, thin arms by his...
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| x Elk Bath |
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Elk Bath is the title of an award winning wildlife photograph by John McColgan, a fire behaviour expert of the Alaskan Type I Incident Management Team. It was taken on August 6, 2000 on the East Fork of the Bitterroot River on the Sula Complex,...
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| x More Demi Moore |
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More Demi Moore or the August 1991 Vanity Fair cover was a controversial handbra nude photograph of the then seven-months pregnant Demi Moore taken by Annie Leibovitz for the August 1991 cover of Vanity Fair to accompany a cover story about Moore....
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| x View from the Window at Le Gras |
View from the Window at Le Gras (La cour du domaine du Gras) was the first successful permanent photograph, created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes.
Niépce captured the photo with a camera obscura focused onto a sheet of 20 ×...
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| x The Soiling of Old Glory |
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1976 Boston desegregation busing protest |
The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken for the Boston Herald American in 1976 by Stanley Forman.
The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted...
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| x 99 Cent II Diptychon |
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The artwork 99 Cent II Diptychon from 2001 is a two part photograph made by Andreas Gursky probably in 1999, as the work is sometimes called "99 cent.1999".
The work depicts an interior of a supermarket with numerous aisles depicting goods resulting...
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| x Piss Christ |
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Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts"...
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| x The Falling Man |
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"The Falling Man" is a nickname given to a man who fell from the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City, and is also the title of a photograph, magazine story and documentary film about the incident....
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| x Into the Jaws of Death |
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Operation Neptune |
Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death is a historic photograph taken on June 6, 1944, by Robert F. Sargent. It depicts U.S. Army First Division soldiers disembarking from a LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast...
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| x The Steerage |
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The Steerage is a photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907. It has been hailed as one of the greatest photographs of all time because it captures in a single image both a formative document of its time and one of the first works of artistic...
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| x Equivalents |
Equivalents is a series of photographs of clouds taken by Alfred Stieglitz from 1925 to 1934. They are generally recognized as the first photographs intended to free the subject matter from literal interpretation, and, as such, are some of the first...
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| x The Soul of a Horse |
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The Soul of a Horse (Mare With Foal) was a 1963 photo taken by the German photojournalist and Stern magazine staffer, Peter Thomann which won countless praise all over the world and many awards. In the mid-1970s "The Kentucky Horse Park" near...
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| x Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima |
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Battle of Iwo Jima |
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo...
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| x Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama |
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The Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama is an almost complete panorama taken of the the city of Toronto taken in 1856/1857 by the firm Armstrong, Beere and Hime. They are the earliest known photographs of the city of Toronto, and create an almost...
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| x Photo 51 |
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Photo 51 is the nickname given to an X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin in 1952 that was critical evidence in identifying the structure of DNA. The photo was taken by Franklin while working at King's College London in Sir John...
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| x Cottingley Fairies |
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The Cottingley Fairies are a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins living in Cottingley, near Bradford in England, depicting the two in various activities with supposed fairies. In 1917, when the...
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| x Tourist guy |
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The "tourist guy" was an Internet phenomenon that featured a fake, manipulated photograph of a tourist who appeared in many manipulated pictures after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was proven to have been taken in 1997.
He is also called...
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| x Black Power Salute photograph |
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1968 Olympics Black Power Salute | |||
