Apollo 8 capped an incredible year of news which were not always great: two political assassinations in the US, the worsening situation in Vietnam, turmoil of college campuses and around the world, and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Harlem by Bruce Davidson, 1968
When Bruce Davidson arrived to East 100th Street Harlem with his camera in 1966 and said that he wanted to record life on the block, the local citizens’ committee was apprehensive.
Shell-shocked soldier by Don McCullin, 1968
The photo above of a dazed American soldier, entitled Shellshocked US Marine would become the most well-known of McCullin’s photos from Hue.
My Lai Massacre by Ron Haeberle, 1968
Ron Haeberle was taking photos for the U.S. Army newspaper in South Vietnam when he accompanied 3 platoons to raid “Viet Cong” villages.
The Hmongs, 2003
In 2003 Andrew Perrin and Philip Blenkinsop trekked into the mountainous jungles of Laos to trek down an insurgent group that had been waging war since 1975.
Falkland Road by Mary Ellen Mark
Photographs of the women and patrons on the internationally notorious street of prostitutes, Falkland Road, in Bombay by Mary Ellen Mark.
Dunkirk Evacuation by Hugo Jaeger, 1940
From 1936 until the end of the WWII, Hugo Jaeger worked as a personal photographer for Adolf Hitler and took color photos. Here are his photos from Dunkirk.
Marilyn’s Last Sitting, 1962
In July 1962, 2571 photographs were taken across three sessions by Bert Stern for Vogue. These are last studio photos of Marilyn Monroe.
Beirut by Don McCullin, 1976
The photo above taken by Don McCullin shows the grim absurdity of war and culture of fear, generational trauma, machismo, pretense, and inhumanity that envelopes it.
House of Bondage by Ernest Cole, 1967
When it was first published in the United States in 1967, Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage was the most comprehensive document of apartheid.