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Haitian Immigrants by Chris Anderson
In May 2000, the United States Coast Guards rescued a sinking boat en route to Florida. To their surprise, on the boat, they found two journalists along with 44 Haitians attempting to enter the United States.
Boy Destroying Piano by Phillip Jones Griffiths
Phillip Jones Griffiths’ photo draws you in, inviting you to a place where you can see the immediate future and almost hear one final discordant groan of that destroyed piano as the rock hits it.
Nicaragua by Susan Meiselas, 1978
In 1978, as violence and revolution gripped Nicaragua, Susan Meiselas traveled there to document the fall of the stifling Somoza regime there.
The Soiling of the Old Glory, 1976
When Stanley Forman took this photo, two millennia of history flashed past his lens, from Longinus spearing Christ at Golgotha to flag-rising at Iwo Jima.
V-J Day by Alfred Eisenstaedt | Contact Sheets
Alfred Eisenstaedt recalls the iconic day on the Times Square in 1945 and shares his contact sheets of the famous kiss.
The Tank Man by Charlie Cole, 1989
Several photographers captured the moment of confrontation; Charlie Cole won World Press Award for his photo.
Ruth Orkin, American Girl in Italy | Contact Sheets
The iconic result of a superb collaboration between two American girls each traveling solo across war torn Europe in 1951.
Reagan Assassination Attempt, 1981 | Contact Sheets
Mike Evans’ contact sheets reveal the wide chasm between the quotidian nature of a presidential event and the chaotic enormity of an assassination attempt.
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, 1991
On the night of May 21st 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by Tamil Tigers, an armed insurgency fighting for a separate state in Sri Lanka against whom Mr. Gandhi had previously intervened.