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).
Month: October 2022
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.
Bombing of Singapore
On 8 December 1941, seventeen Japanese bombers dropped bombs over the island of Singapore, the […]
I’m black and I’m proud to be black
. It was a fraught game on Saturday 17 April 1993 when St Kilda faced […]
Napalm Girl, 1972 | Contact Sheets
In 1972, this picture of a nine-year-old girl, Kim Phuc, fleeing her village after a napalm attack brought the Vietnam War home to many. AP’s decision to publish the photo was controversial. Until then, there had never been images of naked children released by AP.