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Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [1968]


The lynching of young blacks [1930]


Soweto Uprising [1976]


Hazel Bryant [1957]


Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire [1911]


Phan Thị Kim Phúc known as Kim Phuc (born 1963) was the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam war. The picture shows her at about age nine running naked after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack.

Kent State [1970]


Tiananmen Square [1989]



Thích Quảng Đức [1963]


Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]


Albert Einstein [1951]


Nagasaki [1945]


Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb [1945]



Dead on the Beach [1943]


Buchenwald [1945]


Anne Frank [1941]


V-J Day, Times Square, [1945]


Casualties of war [1991]



The Falling Man [2001]


U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945]


Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932]


Here's a rare image by the same photographer showing the workers sleeping on the crossbeam.


Migrant Mother [1936]


Omayra Sánchez [1985]



A vulture watches a starving child [1993]


Biafra [1969]


Misery in Darfur [2004]


Tragedy in Oklahoma [1995]