What a crazy and tumultuous year it was! Many arenas of public life were rocked, […]
Year: 2017
Deep Sorrow, 1968
Sleet’s photo of Bernice King tearfully clasping her mother inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her father had been the pastor for the last eight years won a Pulitzer Prize, making Sleet the first African American journalist to win that award.
Morning Mist, Franklin River
Peter Dombrovskis’s photos become central to save a section of the Franklin River which would be submerged by a proposed dam with environmental groups took out full-page color advertisements before a crucial election.
1956 | Cyprus
Sometimes a photo is famous, not just because of the contents of the photo, but […]
Tunisia | Dominique Berretty
After the defeat at Diên Biên Phu, France’s attention turned to its African colonies, whose soldiers […]
Pedro Luis Raota
When he died early at the age of 52 in 1986, Pedro Luis Raota was already […]
William Albert Allard’s West
National Geographic named it one of the “greatest photographs of the American West.” David Schonauer, the […]
A Kidnapping in Chad
We don’t really hear much about a lot of countries until something horrible happens there; […]
Spain — A Look Back
Here on Iconic Photos, we have seen many photos taken in modern Spain. The country […]
Pinatubo Erupts, 1991
Pinatubo explosion was the second largest volcano explosion of the 20th century. The photo was taken by Alberto Garcia from about 20-30 km away from the caldera was iconic.