In 2004, The Seattle Times published a photo of American coffins taken by a military contractor. Controversy followed.
Year: 2022
Falun Gong Protests, 1999
Falun Gong protests in April 1999 symbolized much that came before and much that came […]
Jiang Zemin (1926 – 2022)
Jiang Zemin, a president and a meme, died this week, aged 96. . On “60 […]
East Germany | 1953
. Earlier this year, as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Yuval Noah Harari wrote a […]
Ron Galella (1931 – 2022)
Ron Galella, patron saint of peeping toms, is dead, age 91. . “My idea of […]
Last Picture of War | Robert Capa
His biographer called them the most gruesome photographs of Robert Capa’s career. In a Leipzig flat, a young soldier lay dead from a sniper.
The Zamzam Affair
. “One of the picture scoops of World War II,” Time magazine called it. The […]
Shanghai by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1949
Henri Cartier-Bresson spent ten months in China in 1949. LIFE published 26 photos of his in a special report (A Last Look at Peiping).
Hu Jintao is Removed
Kremlinology, they used to call it. Analysis of an opaque obscurantist state, using indirect clues: […]
Coronation of Haile Selassie, 1930
Many photos featured throughout this blog were iconic, some have made or unmade careers, others have changed the course of public opinion and wars. But few have actually started a religion, except these.