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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, 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

* Nicéphore Niépce, '' View from the Window at Le Gras'', 1827.

Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph.

File:Point de vue du Gras by Niépce, 1826.jpg, Original File:View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.jpg, Enhanced * William Henry Fox Talbot, ''Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey'', August 1835.

The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.

File:William Henry Fox Talbot, Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey, 1835.jpg, Original paper negative File:Latticed window at lacock abbey 1835.jpg, Enhanced positive * Louis Daguerre, '' Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement'', 1838. * Hippolyte Bayard, ''Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man (Le Noyé)'', 1840. File:Bayard, Hippolyte 1801-1887 - Selfportrait as a Drowned man 1840 b.jpg, Original File:Hippolyte Bayard - Drownedman 1840.jpg, Enhanced * William Henry Fox Talbot, ''The Haystack'', 1844.


1850s

*
Nadar Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of Aircraft#Heavier-than-air – aerodynes, h ...
, ''The Mime Charles Debureau as Pierrot'', 1854. File:Pierrot Laughing MET DT1166.jpg, File:Félix Nadar - Pierrot the photographer - Google Art Project.jpg, File:Nadar-Tournachon Deburau Pierrot.jpg, File:Pierrot Climbing Through a Window, 1854–1855, by Nadar.jpg, File:Pierrot Running MET DT324602.jpg, * Roger Fenton, ''The Valley of the Shadow of Death'', 1855. * John Mayall, ''Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter'', 1855. * Gustave Le Gray, ''The Brig'', 1856. * Robert Howlett, '' Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern'', 1857. * Shiro Ichiki, ''Portrait of
Nariakira Shimazu was a Japanese feudal lord (''daimyō'') of the Edo period, the 28th in the line of Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma Domain. He was renowned as an intelligent and wise lord, and was greatly interested in Western learning and technology. He was e ...
'', 1857. * Oscar Gustave Rejlander, ''Two Ways of Life'', 1857. * Camille Silvy, ''La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene)'', 1857. * Henry Peach Robinson, ''Fading Away'', 1858.


1860s

*
Mathew Brady Mathew B. Brady ( – January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the American Civil War, Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique ...
, '' Abraham Lincoln'', 1860. * Carleton Watkins, ''Cathedral Rock'', 1861. * Alexander Gardner, ''The Dead of Antietam'', 1862. * McAllister & Brothers, ''
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(The Scourged Back)'', 1863 * Alexander Gardner, ''Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal'', 1865. * Julia Margaret Cameron, ''Portrait of Sir John Herschel'', 1867. *
Andrew J. Russell Andrew Joseph Russell (March 20, 1829 – September 22, 1902) was a 19th-century photographer of the American Civil War and the Union Pacific Railroad. Russell photographed construction of the Union Pacific (UP) in 1868 and 1869. Early life A ...
, ''Beckoning West'', 1869.


1870s

* William Henry Jackson, ''Lower'' ''Yellowstone Falls'', 1871. * Timothy O’Sullivan, ''Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly'', 1873. * Eadweard Muybridge, '' The Horse in Motion'', 1878.


1880s

* Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, ''Water Rats'', 1886. * Jacob Riis, '' Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street'', 1888.


1890s

* Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, ''The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen'', 1895. * Clarence H. White, ''Girl with a Mirror'', 1898. * Louis Boutan, ''First Underwater Photo'', 1899.


20th century


1900s

* Frederick Evans, ''A Sea of Steps ( Wells Cathedral)'', 1903. *
John T. Daniels John Thomas Daniels, Jr. (July 31, 1873 – January 31, 1948) was a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Station in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, who took the photograph of the first powered flight on December 17, 1903. The flight was by the ...
, ''First Flight'', 1903. * Edward S. Curtis, ''The Vanishing Race'', 1904. * Edward Steichen, ''
The Pond—Moonlight ''The Pond—Moonlight'' (also exhibited as ''The Pond—Moonrise'') is a pictorialist photograph by Edward Steichen. The photograph was made in 1904 in Mamaroneck, New York, near the home of his friend art critic Charles Caffin. The photograph ...
'', 1904. *
Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was kno ...
, '' The Steerage'', 1907. * Lewis Hine, ''Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill'','' 1908. * Lumiere Brothers, ''Cactus Hot Air Balloon'', 1909.


1910s

* Lewis Hine, ''Breaker Boys'', 1911. * Brown Brothers, '' Triangle Shirtwaist Fire'', 1911. * E.J. Bellocq, ''Prostitute, New Orleans'', 1912. * Jacques-Henri Lartigue, ''Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France'', 1912. *
Paul Strand Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century ...
, '' Abstraction, Porch Shadows'', 1916. *
Paul Strand Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century ...
, ''Blind Woman, New York'', 1916.


1920s

* Edward Weston, ''Armco Steel'', 1922. * Man Ray, '' Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres’ Violin)'', 1924. * Rudolf Koppitz, ''Movement Study'', 1926. *
August Sander August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book ''Face of our Time'' (German: ''Antlitz der Zeit'') was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important Ger ...
, ''
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'', 1928. *
August Sander August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book ''Face of our Time'' (German: ''Antlitz der Zeit'') was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important Ger ...
, '' The Pastry Cook'', 1928. * Tina Modotti, ''Woman of Tehuantapec'', 1929.


1930s

* Edward Weston, ''
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'', 1930. * Man Ray, ''Glass Tears'', 1930. * Miami police department, ''
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Mug Shot'', 1931. *
Erich Salomon Erich Salomon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1944) was a German Jewish news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them. Life and work Born in Berlin, Salomon studied ...
, ''The Hague'', 1930. * Henri Cartier-Bresson, ''Place de l’Europe (
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare ''Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare'' is a black and white photograph taken by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris in 1932. The photograph has been printed at variable dimensions; the print donated by Cartier-Bresson to the Museum of Mo ...
)'', 1932. * Henri Cartier-Bresson, ''Brussels'', 1932. *
James VanDerZee James Augustus Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Ze ...
, ''Couple in Raccoon Coats'', 1932. *
Wanda Wulz Wanda Wulz (Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire 25 July 1903 – Trieste, Italy, 16 April 1984) was an Italian experimental photographer. Wulz was born on 25 July 1903 in Trieste, Italy. Both her grandfather Giuseppe Wulz and her father Carlo Wulz w ...
, ''Lo + gatto (I + Cat)'', 1932. * ''
Lunch atop a Skyscraper ''Lunch atop a Skyscraper'' is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged ...
'', 1932. (Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty - See article.) * Alexander Rodchenko, ''Girl with a
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'', 1934. *
Heinrich Hoffmann Heinrich Hoffmann or Hoffman may refer to: Hoffmann * Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer) (1885–1957), German photographer *Heinrich Hoffmann (author) (1809–1894), German psychiatrist and author * Heinrich Hoffmann (sport shooter) (1869–?), Germ ...
, ''Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally'', 1934. * Ian Wetherell, '' Loch Ness Monster'', 1934. *
Madame Yevonde Yevonde Philone Middleton (née Cumbers; 5 January 1893 – 22 December 1975) was an English photographer, who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography. She used the professional name Madame Yevonde. Early life Educated at the lib ...
, ''Lady Milbanke as ‘Queen of the Amazons’'', 1935. * Dorothea Lange, '' Migrant Mother'', 1936. * Margaret Bourke-White, '' Fort Peck Dam'', 1936. * Margaret Bourke-White, ''Fort Peck Dam Liner'', 1936. * Robert Capa, '' The Falling Soldier (Death in Spain)'', 1936.

Death of Republican soldier

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in the Spanish Civil War.

* Herbert List, ''Goldfish Bowl'', 1937. * Margaret Bourke-White, ''The Louisville Flood'', 1937. * Sam Shere, '' The Hindenburg Disaster'', 6 May 1937. *
H. S. Wong H. S. "Newsreel" Wong (1900March 9, 1981) was a Chinese newsreel photojournalist. He is most notable for ''Bloody Saturday (photograph), Bloody Saturday'', a photograph of a crying baby in Shanghai that he took during the Second Sino-Japanese Wa ...
, '' Bloody Saturday'', 28 August 1937. * Henri Cartier‐Bresson, ''Sunday on the Banks of the Marne'', also known as '' Juvisy, France'', 1938. *
Horst P. Horst Horst P. Horst (born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann; August 14, 1906November 18, 1999), was a German-American fashion photographer. Early life The younger of two sons, Horst was born in Weißenfels-an-der-Saale, Germany, to Klara (Schönbrodt) and ...
, ''Mainbocher Corset'', 1939. * Margaret Bourke-White, ''Aerial View of Manhattan'', 1939. * Bill Brandt, ''The Lambeth Walk'', c. 1939. * Weegee, ''Mulberry Street'', 1939.


1940s

* Edward Weston, ''Tide Pool'', 1940. *
Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...
, ''The Tetons and the Snake River'', 1942. * Yousuf Karsh, '' The Roaring Lion'',
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, 1941. *
Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...
, '' Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico'', 1 November 1941. *
Dmitri Baltermants Dmitri Baltermants (russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Бальтерманц; 13 May 1912 – 11 June 1990) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist. Early life Baltermants was born on 13 May 1912 in Warsaw, then in Congress Poland, Russ ...
, ''Grief'', 1942. * Gordon Parks, ''Ella Watson (American Gothic)'', 1942. * Frank Powolny, '' Betty Grable'', 1943. * George Strock, ''Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach'', 1943. * Unknown, ''Jewish Boy Surrenders in Warsaw'', 1943. * Weegee, ''The Critic'', 1943. * Robert Capa, ''
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'', 6 June 1944. * Lieutenant Charles Levy, ''Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki'', 1945. * Bernard Hoffman, ''Atomic Destruction'', 1945. * Carl Mydans, ''Return to the Philippines'', 1945. * Unknown, ''Inside Buchenwild'', 1945. *
Joe Rosenthal Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph '' Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'', taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. H ...
, '' Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'', 23 February 1945. *
Yevgeny Khaldei Yevgeny Ananyevich Khaldei ( rus, Евгений Анатольевич Халдей, ukr, Євген Анатольєвич Халдей) ( – 6 October 1997) was a Soviet Red Army naval officer and photographer. He is best known f ...
, '' Raising a Flag over the Reichstag'', 2 May 1945. * Alfred Eisenstaedt, '' V-J Day in Times Square'', 14 August 1945.

"In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers".

* Margaret Bourke-White, ''Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel'', 1946. Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel. * Amit Shabi, ''Dead Sea Scrolls'', 1947. * Andreas Feininger, ''Route 66'', 1947. * Eric Hosking, ''Barn Owl with Vole'', 1948. * Nat Fein, ''The Babe Bows Out'', 1948. * Philippe Halsman, ''Dalí Atomicus'', 1948. *
W. Eugene Smith William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist.Peacock, Scot. "W(illiam) Eugene Smith." ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2003. ''Biography In Context'' He has been described as "perhaps the si ...
, ''Country Doctor'', 1948. * Leonard McCombe, ''Career Girl'', 1948. * Willy Ronis, ''Provençal Nude'', 1949. * Ralph Morse, ''Nuns Watching Television'', 1949. * Leonard McCombe, ''Clarence Hailey Long'', 1949.


1950s

* Robert Doisneau, '' The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville)'', 1950. *
Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, co ...
and Raymond Gosling, ''X-ray diffraction'', 1951.

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.

* Arthur Sasse, '' Albert Einstein'', 1951. * J.R. Eyerman, ''Trouble in Lakewood'', 1952. *
Dmitri Baltermants Dmitri Baltermants (russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Бальтерманц; 13 May 1912 – 11 June 1990) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist. Early life Baltermants was born on 13 May 1912 in Warsaw, then in Congress Poland, Russ ...
, ''The Announcement of Stalin's Death'', 1953. * Hy Peskin, ''Camelot'', 1953. *
Alfred Gregory Alfred Gregory FBIPP, FRPS (Hon) (12 February 1913 – 9 February 2010) was a British mountaineer, explorer and professional photographer. A member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest, he ...
, ''Atop Mount Everest'', 1953. * Matty Zimmerman, '' Monroe'', 1954. * David Jackson, ''
Emmett Till Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery ...
'', 1955. * Richard Avedon, ''Dovima with Elephants'', 1955. * Robert Frank, ''TrolleyNew Orleans'', 1955. * O. Winston Link, ''Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In'', 1956. * Charles Trainer, ''The New King'', 1956. * Harold Eugene Edgerton, Harold E. Edgerton, ''Milk Drop Coronet'', 1957. * Russell Kirsch, ''First Digital Photo'', 1957. * Ira Wilmer Counts Jr., Will Counts, ''Elizabeth Eckford'', 1957. *
Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...
, ''Aspens'', 1958.


1960s

* Alberto Korda, ''Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara)'', 1960. * Julius Shulman, ''Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles'', 1960. * Peter Leibing, ''Leap into Freedom'', 1961.

Hans Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier running away over barbed-wire in Berlin.

* Abraham Zapruder, ''JFK Assassination'', 1963. * Charles Moore (photographer), Charles Moore, ''Birmingham, Alabama'', 1963. * Malick Sidibé, Malick Sidibè, ''Nuit de Noël (Happy Club)'', 1963. * Robert H. Jackson (photographer), Robert H. Jackson, ''Lee Harvey Oswald'', 1963. * Malcolm Browne, ''The Burning Monk (Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation)'', 11 June 1963. * NPS, ''"I Have a Dream"'', 1963. * Harry Benson, ''Pillow Fight'', 1964. *Hugo van Lawick, Hugo Van Lawick, ''Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp'', 1965. * Lennart Nilsson, ''New View of Life'', ''Fetus 18-Weeks'', 1965. * Neil Leifer, ''Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston'', 1965. * Hou Bo, ''Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze'', 1966. *Larry Burrows, ''Reaching Out'', 1966. *Mary Quant, ''Twiggy'', 1966. *Bernie Boston, Flower Power (photograph), ''Flower Power'', 1967. *D. A. Pennebaker, D.A. Pennebaker, Jimi Hendrix, ''The Jimi Hendrix Experience'', 1967. * Bill Eppridge, ''Assassination of Robert Kennedy'', 1968. * John Dominis, ''1968 Olympics Black Power salute, Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics'', 1968. * Josef Koudelka, ''Invasion of Prague'', 1968. * Joseph Louw, ''Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.'', 1968. * Ronald L. Haeberle, ''Massacre of Villagers at My Lai'', 1968. * Bill Anders, William Anders, ''Earthrise'', 1968. * Eddie Adams (photographer), Eddie Adams, ''General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon'', 1 February 1968. * Don McCullin, ''Albino Boy, Biafra'', 1969. *Bill Eppridge, ''Woodstock'', 1969. * Neil Armstrong, ''Buzz Aldrin on the Moon'', 1969. * Unknown, Altamont Free Concert, ''Altamont'', 1969.


1970s

* John Filo, John Paul Filo, ''Kent State Shootings'', 1970. * Ollie Atkins, ''Elvis Meets Nixon'', 1970 * Ron Galella, ''Windblown Jackie'', 1971. * 1972 — Harrison Schmitt, Jack Schmitt, ''The Blue Marble.'' Earth from Apollo 17. * Ollie Atkins, ''Nixon in China'', 1972. * Nick Ut, Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut, ''Napalm attack'', 1972. * Kurt Strumpf, ''Munich massacre, Munich Massacre'', 1972. * Harold Eugene Edgerton, Harold E. Edgerton, ''Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame'', 1973. * Luis Orlando Lagos, ''Allende's Last Stand'', 1973. * Bernd and Hilla Becher, ''Water‐Towers'', 1974. * Rolls Press, ''Nixon Resignation'', 1974. * Mervyn Bishop, ''Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari'', 1975. * Stanley Forman, ''Fire Escape Collapse'', 1975. * Sam Nzima, ''Soweto uprising, Soweto Uprising (Hector Pieterson)'', 1976. * Viking 1, ''The Red Planet'', 1976. * Eddie Adams (photographer), Eddie Adams, ''s:Boat of No Smiles, Boat of No Smiles'', 1977. * Cindy Sherman, ''Untitled Film Stills'', 1977–80. * Jahangir Razmi, ''Firing Squad in Iran'', 1979. * Robert Mapplethorpe, ''Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter'', 1979. * Susan Meiselas, ''Molotov Man'', 1979.


1980s

* Annie Leibovitz, Annie Leibowitz, ''John Lennon and Yoko Ono'', 1980. * Heinz Kluetmeier, ''Miracle on Ice'', 1980. * Helmut Newton, ''Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model'', 1981. *Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, Patrick Lichfield, ''Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace'', 1981. * Donna Ferrato, ''Behind Closed Doors'', 1982. * Nancy Burson, ''Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)'', 1982. * Co Rentmeester, ''Michael Jordan'', 1984. * Steve McCurry, Sharbat Gula, ''Afghan Girl'', 1984 *NASA, ''Hole in the Ozone'', 1985. * Alon Reininger, ''Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California'', 1986. * Andres Serrano, ''Piss Christ, Immersions (Piss Christ)'', 1987. * James Stanfield, James L. Stanfield, ''The First Heart Transplant in Poland'', 1987. * National Enquirer, ''Monkey Business'', 1987. * Walter Iooss, Walter Looss Jr., ''Air Jordan'', 1988. * Jeff Widener, ''Tank Man'', 1989. Man confronting column of tanks. * Richard Prince, ''Untitled (Cowboy)'', 1989. * Robert Maass, ''The Wall Falls'', 1989.


1990s

* Therese Frare, ''The Face of AIDS'', 1990. * Annie Leibovitz, ''Demi Moore'', 1991. * David C. Turnley, David Turnley, ''Operation Desert Storm'', 1991. * Steve McCurry, ''Camels in the Oil Fields'', 1991. * James Nachtwey, ''Famine in Somalia'', 1992. * Jeff Wall, ''Dead Troops Talk'', 1992. * Ron Haviv, ''Bosnia'', 1992. * Kevin Carter, ''Vulture Stalking a Child – Sudan Famine'', 1994. * Charles Porter, ''Oklahoma City Bombing'', 1995. * Hubble Space Telescope / NASA, ''Pillars of Creation'', 1995. * Dirck Halstead, ''Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky'', 1996. * Charles O'Rear, Bliss (image), ''Bliss'', 1996. * Philippe Kahn, ''First Cell-Phone Picture'', 1997. * Andreas Gursky, ''99 Cent II Diptychon'', 1999. * Carol Guzy, ''Kosovo Refugees'', 1999. * Robert Beck, ''World Cup Winners'', 1999.


21st century


2000s

* Alan Diaz, ''Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid'', 2000. *Michael Nichols (photographer), Michael Nichols, ''Surfing Hippos'', 2000. * Doug Mills (photographer), Doug Mills, ''President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks'', 2001. * Patrick Witty, ''New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center'', 2001. * Richard Drew (photographer), Richard Drew, ''The Falling Man'', 2001. * Shannon Stapleton, ''Father Judge'', 2001. * Thomas Franklin, ''Raising of the American Flag at Ground Zero'', 2001. * Marcus Bleasdale, ''Sakura Lisi'', 2004. * Ivan Frederick, Sgt. Ivan Frederick, ''The Hooded Man'', 2004.

* Tami Silicio, ''Coffin Ban'', 2004. * Chris Hondros, ''Iraqi Girl'', 2005. * Eric Gay, ''Hurricane Katrina Evacuation'', 2005. * Robert Galbraith, ''Hurricane Katrina'', 2005. * David Phillip, ''Hurricane Katrina'', 2005. * Todd Heisler, ''Jim Comes Home'', 2005. * Brent Stirton, ''Gorilla in the Congo'', 2007. * John Moore, ''Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery'', 2007. * Louie Favorite, ''Homecoming'', 2007. * Oded Balilty, Oded Bality, ''The Power of One'', 2007. *Heinz Kluetmeier, ''Photo Finish'', 2008. *Marcio Sanchez, ''Married at Last'', 2008. *Win McNamee, ''The New First Family'', 2008. * Barbara Davidson, ''Funeral of Edwin Cobbin'', 2009. * Marcos Tristao, ''Diego Frazão Torquato'', 2009. * Pete Souza, ''Oval Office Meeting'', 2009. * Unknown, ''The Death of Neda'', 2009.


2010s

* Kevin Systrom, ''First Instagram Photo'', 2010. * Justin Lane, ''9/11 Memorial'', 2011. * Pete Souza, ''Situation Room (photograph), The Situation Room'', 2011. * Jessica Hill, ''Newtown Massacre'', 2012. * Lucas Jackson, ''Fashion Week'', 2012. * Rodrigo Abd, ''Aida'', 2012. * Shannon Hicks, ''Sandy Hook'', 2012. * AFP, ''China Social Suicide'', 2013. * David Guttenfelder, ''North Korea'', 2013. * John Tlumacki, ''Boston Marathon Bombing'', 2013. * Taslima Akhter, ''Couple Found in Rubble of Bangladesh Factory Collapse'', 2013. * Tyler Hicks, ''Nairobi Mall Attack'', 2013. * Bradley Cooper, ''Oscars Selfie'', 2014. * Bülent Kiliç, ''Turkey Mine Blast'', 2014. * UNRWA, ''Yarmouk Refugees'', 2014. * Nilüfer Demir, Nilufer Demir, ''Death of Alan Kurdi, Alan Kurdi'', 2015 * Emin Menguarslan, ''Turkish Coast Guard Rescue'', 2016. * Sergio Pitamitz, ''Climate Change'', 2018.


2020s

* Tayfun Coskun, ''Capitol Under Attack'', 2021. * United States Air Force, ''Out of Afghanistan'', 2021.


See also

* Fine-art photography * :People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph, People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph * :Lists of photographs, Lists of photographs * List of most expensive photographs * World Press Photo of the Year


Notes


Sources

These surveys of the history of photography determine which images are included in the list.


Additional references

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