Post an iconic photograph.

[mix]

Nicéphore (Joseph) Niépce, La cour du domaine du Gras, (1826)

[Ptah]

1. On the Missouri River, Montana

Fort Peck Dam, Life (1936)

[mix]

2. Muscular modernity.

I remember seeing that photograph a long time ago and being impressed.

Great choice.

[Haole Girl]

3. Definitely iconic:

"Tank Man" stops the advance of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, in Beijing.
This photo became one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century, and
an international symbol at the end of the Cold War era. Photo by Jeff Widener

[mix]

4. I agree.

I considered that one for the OP.

[Codeine]

5. My girlfriend has this one tattooed on her arm.

[WinkyDink]

8. Never having seen this before (I'm 60), I'm baffled by its being "iconic."

THIS is iconic:


And this:

[Codeine]

10. Really? It's one of the most common images I've seen of the man.

Iconic enough to be on multiple t-shirt designs,





nd many different prints and posters,

http://www.amazon.com/John-Lennon-Music-Poster-Print/dp...

and now my girlfriend's forearm.

[mix]

21. I agree. It's iconic.

[K8-EEE]

104. My 19 y/o daughter has that poster on her dorm wall

Def iconic, and timeless!

[msanthrope]

112. Context--he'd just won the right to stay in America. n/t

[Cleanelec]

6. Here are two

[rug]

7. Lewis Hine

[nolabear]

97. I'm moved by all these photos but

that is just beautiful.

[rrneck]

9. Two from the Veit Nam war:

[proteus_lives]

43. A lot of misconceptions about that second one.

[Cleanelec]

11. The opening of King Tut's tomb

[Bucky]

12. icon explosion

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Thich Quang Duc (burning monk):

[petronius]

14. Maybe not technically iconic, but I like it:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1624849_1...

[Callalily]

15. Kent State

[Kaleva]

16. From the Spainish Civil War

[woo me with science]

17. Empire state building workers

[lillypaddle]

53. OMG

I will have nightmares about that picture! (the real ones)

[Patsy Stone]

18. Okay, here:

[underpants]

63. Oliver North mugshot -- btw love the shot of the construction workers

[Patsy Stone]

78. It's one of my all-time favorites

although I worry about them everytime I see it.



One more:

[vanlassie]

19. A Child Is Born

[Dystopian]

20. Woodstock

peace~

[pinboy3niner]

64. Good one! Link to more:

Slideshow of Life Magazine's best Woodstock photos:
http://www.life.com/image/50591361/in-gallery/31192/woo...

[alphafemale]

69. I think I remember reading that couple is still together.

There was a story about them at the anniversary last year

[Call Me Wesley]

22. Okay:

[SteppingRazor]

49. Sad story about that last photo ...

well, apart from the obvious sad story it depicts. The man who took the photo, Kevin Carter, won the Pulitzer for it in May 1994. He killed himself two months later.

[stuntcat]

65. wow

I've looked at that photo for years, even printed it out for my wall. But I never knew about the man who took it.

[SteppingRazor]

74. Check out the book The Bang Bang Club.

It's about Carter and three other South African photographers during and after apartheid. Written by the two surviving photographers of the four. Good book -- rarely have I read a memoir that paints its autobiographical subjects in such an unflattering light. Painfully honest work. The writing's so-so, but the emotion's great.

[Mad_Dem_X]

126. God, that last one is heartwrenching

So difficult to even look at.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Coup d'etat

[Tikki]

24. Mississippi Crossroads....

Tikki

[lunatica]

25. The Dust Bowl and the violence during the Civil Rights marches

[Alexander]

26. Hopefully in a couple weeks, we'll all be reminded of this one:

[Orrex]

27. Shockingly overlooked in this thread.

[Codeine]

31. That was indeed a criminal oversight. nt

[hippywife]

28. Greensboro, NC Soda Shop Sit In 1960

[Aristus]

29. First known photograph of a person:

A daguerrotype taken in 1838 or 1839. What looks like a deserted street is actually bustling with activity. People are moving much too fast to register in the image over the ten-minute exposure time. Except for the figure of a man in the lower left-hand corner, standing still, getting his boots shined. First known incident of a person being photographed...

[Arugula Latte]

33. Whoa, cool. Is that in Paris, do you know?

[mix]

129. Yes Paris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple

[stuntcat]

66. nice :)

never saw that, TY!

[Codeine]

30. Here's a truly fantastic image from WW2

[Arugula Latte]

34. RIP, FDR

[proteus_lives]

42. I've always remembered that pic.

FDR was so loved.

[mix]

51. very powerful, thanks

[RZM]

132. Interesting side note about this one

Which you probably already knew -- that it was altered by the Soviets because the flag-hoister could originally be seen wearing multiple wristwatches

[Dr. Strange]

32. Okay...

John Lennon and that woman:


The Directors:


Early picture of what might be a ghost:

[Aristus]

54. In the ghost pic,

who is that at the top of the stairs mooning the cameraman?...

[baldguy]

35. .

[Bertha Venation]

36. That is a great picture.

I wonder if the photographer won the Pulitzer.

[stuntcat]

67. oh the pride

highest standard, whoop-de-doo, we bought it ALL. The suburban fantasy of the poster makes me feel ill.

[edbermac]

37. Here are mine:

[stuntcat]

68. yup

things I won't forget

[Deep13]

38. Two of that asshole who shot JFK.

[Deep13]

39. Ansel Adams

[begin_within]

48. I also like this

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941)

and many of his other photos including "Clearing Winter Storm," below.

[KeepItReal]

40. Ali vs. The Beatles

[underpants]

62. This was always my favorite Ali photo

[Crankie Avalon]

41. Any jazz fans?

[1gobluedem]

83. Oh, yes, that's a classic

From what I've heard, all the kids on the curb except the one on the far right were all neighborhood kids that they rounded up to put in the shot and they're frowning because all of them wanted to sit by Count Basie at the end. The kid who is, is the son of one of the other musicians but I can't remember who.

Great Day in Harlem!

[Arugula Latte]

88. Looks like a great day ...

[Crankie Avalon]

44. This picture was everywhere when I was a kid...

[Arugula Latte]

108. A few years later ...

[Arugula Latte]

109. ...And a going back farther ...

[sarge43]

110. And going way way back

[GreenPartyVoter]

45. some more

[sarge43]

46. A pretty blue world

[sakabatou]

47. Earthrise (from Apollo 8)

[GoCubsGo]

50. Gestures. Both from the late 1960s

[lumberjack_jeff]

52. Afghan girl

[lillypaddle]

55. What a terrific thread

kudos to everyone who posted.

[sarge43]

56. "I have a dream."

[K8-EEE]

57. Enjoying all the photos, adding LOUISE BROOKS!

THANKS EVERYONE!

[BurtWorm]

102. Thank you

[Gormy Cuss]

58. Two more...

Forman's Pulitzer winning photo of a Boston desegregation protest.



New Jersey Hindenburg crash.

[VioletLake]

59. Elvis Nixon

[Amerigo Vespucci]

60. Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the Vietnamese child running from napalm

I don't think there's anything that can be said about the Vietnam war, or any war for that matter, that wasn't said in that photo.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about age nine running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack.

Kim Phúc and her family were residents of the village of Trang Bang, South Vietnam. On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese planes, in coordination with the American military, dropped a napalm bomb on Trang Bang, which had been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. Phúc joined a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers who were fleeing from the Cao Dai Temple to the safety of South Vietnamese–held positions. A South Vietnamese Air Force pilot mistook the group for enemy soldiers and diverted to attack. The bombing killed two of Phúc's cousins and two other villagers. Associated Press photographer Nick Út earned a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the aftermath. It also was chosen as the World Press Photo of the Year for 1972. The image of Phúc running naked amid the chaos became one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War. In an interview many years later, she recalled she was yelling, "Nóng quá, nóng quá" ("too hot, too hot") in the picture.

After snapping the photograph, Út took Kim Phúc and the other injured children to Barsky Hospital in Saigon, where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she probably would not survive.<1> After a 14-month hospital stay and 17 surgical procedures, however, she was able to return home. Út continued to visit her until he was evacuated during the fall of Saigon, three years later.<2>
Thumbnails of the film footage showing the events just before and after the iconic photograph was taken. (ITN)

Audio tapes of then-president Richard Nixon, in conversation with his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, reveal that Nixon doubted the authenticity of the photograph, thinking it might have been "fixed."<3> After the release of this tape, Út commented, "Even though it has become one of the most memorable images of the twentieth century, President Nixon once doubted the authenticity of my photograph when he saw it in the papers on 12 June 1972.... The picture for me and unquestionably for many others could not have been more real. The photo was as authentic as the Vietnam war itself. The horror of the Vietnam war recorded by me did not have to be fixed. That terrified little girl is still alive today and has become an eloquent testimony to the authenticity of that photo. That moment thirty years ago will be one Kim Phúc and I will never forget. It has ultimately changed both our lives."<4>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th%E1%BB%8B_Kim_Ph%C3...

[blondeatlast]

61. Once, there was hope...

[Arugula Latte]

70. Another from the Dust Bowl:

[Arugula Latte]

71. Great Depression

[Arugula Latte]

72. Adlai Stevenson w/ hole in shoe

[Arugula Latte]

73. Ravages of AIDs

[rocktivity]

75. Well, I AM a headbanger, after all

rocktivity

[rocktivity]

76. Iconic to a fault

rocktivity

[proteus_lives]

94. It always makes me laugh.

That Capitalists have made so much money off that image!

That Stalinist thug must be rolling in his grave.

[Art_from_Ark]

77. Richard Nixon leaving the White House after his resignation

[Arugula Latte]

79. More recently ...

[Arugula Latte]

80. British streaker

[Roon]

91. Lmao@the guy running up with a coat to cover the streaker

the look on his face is HYSTERICAL!!

[Arugula Latte]

106. Ha ha, you're right.

"Harrumph! I say, old chap, it simply won't DO for you to be running around completely starkers!"

[Roon]

111. lmao!

too funny.

[Arugula Latte]

81. Space Shuttle Challenger

[Arugula Latte]

82. Oh wait. How could we have forgotten this one:

I just never gets old.

[Brother Buzz]

84. Louis Agassiz receives his comeuppance

A lifelong opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution.

[mix]

130. That is a great photograph and interesting backstory. nt

[donheld]

85. .

[krispos42]

86. Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma City, Blue Marble

[csziggy]

87. I was going to post the victory kiss but someone beat me to it

So here is the Big Blue Marble, or more properly, "The Earth seen from Apollo 17"



And here is a new take on a classic iconic photo - this one is a mosaic of images of our universe.
Dang! It's too big to post in a message, so just go to:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100713.html

[csziggy]

89. Here is one of my favorites

This series of photos proved that horses are suspended for an instant while galloping:

In 1872, former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, had taken a position on a popularly-debated question of the day: whether all four of a horse's hooves are off the ground at the same time during a gallop. Stanford sided with this assertion, called "unsupported transit", and took it upon himself to prove it scientifically. Stanford sought out Muybridge and hired him to settle the question.<5>
Muybridge sequence of a horse jumping.

In 1877, Muybridge settled Stanford's question with a single photographic negative showing Stanford's racehorse Occident airborne in the midst of a gallop. This negative was lost, but it survives through woodcuts made at the time. By 1878, spurred on by Stanford to expand the experiment, Muybridge had successfully photographed a horse in fast motion.<6>

This series of photos taken in Palo Alto, California, is called Sallie Gardner at a Gallop or The Horse in Motion, and shows that the hooves do all leave the ground — although not with the legs fully extended forward and back, as contemporary illustrators tended to imagine, but rather at the moment when all the hooves are tucked under the horse as it switches from "pulling" with the front legs to "pushing" with the back legs. <5> This series of photos stands as one of the earliest forms of videography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Muybridge#Stanford_...

And here is that classic series animated:

[mix]

92. love that, thanks nt

[sarge43]

90. December 17, 1903, Kitty Hawk NC

[MissHoneychurch]

93. A few German ones

Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker (just search for "Brotherhood Kiss)



http://www.nzherald.co.nz/tony-paterson/news/article.cf...


An East German soldier jumps over the fence when they started building the wall in Berlin.

[guitar man]

95. Cha Cha

[sarge43]

96. Berlin Airlift

[ZombieHorde]

98. ...

[rocktivity]

99. In loving memory of both

rocktivity

[Tikki]

100. CBGBs and The Masque...

Benefit Circa February 1978..


Tikki

[hedgehog]

101. End of a hunger strike

[BurtWorm]

103. Arbus

[Lucy Goosey]

105. Iconic Canadiana

Canadian Prime Minister (at the time) performing a pirouette at Buckingham Palace right behind the Queen and Princes Philip and Charles. (May 7, 1977)

...photographer Doug Ball caught Trudeau spinning a pirouette behind an oblivious Queen Elizabeth during a G7 summit Conference in London, England. “The picture expresses his maverick anti-conformism, his democratic disdain for aristocratic pomp,” noted Ball.

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/trudeaus-p...

[Arugula Latte]

107. Berlin Wall comes down

[PVnRT]

125. Another one

[mikeiddy]

113. I've always liked this one

although it seems to be very hard to find online - I guess the subject just doesn't fit the times . . .

[Whoa_Nelly]

114. Apparently, overlooked in this thread...

But, not forgotten...

[kwassa]

115. I am in a somewhat iconic Woodstock photo

[Arugula Latte]

116. Cool! Which one are ya?

[Arugula Latte]

117. Ghandi

[Arugula Latte]

118. pregnant Demi Moore

[old mark]

119. This one, by Weegee from 1937, one of my favorites....one of those kids could have been

my dad...

http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/weegee-collecti...

[Rhiannon12866]

120. Can't believe no one posted this one:

[AsahinaKimi]

121. I LOVE YOU BIG G!!!

[pintobean]

122. Oh no

a purposeful grimace

[mix]

123. American Girl in Italy (1951) - Ruth Orkin

[mix]

124. Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (1950) - Robert Doisneau

[mix]

127. 1st self-portrait, 1839

Robert Cornelius

[mix]

128. Revolving self-portrait (1865) - Félix Nadar

[Arugula Latte]

131. Love this one:

[MilesColtrane]

133. Lady Day

[robertpaulsen]

134. Haven't seen any Brando on this thread yet!

Brando had many great roles, but The Wild One may have been his most iconic.