The dadaist and surrealist painter also experimented extensively with his camera.

London’s Daily Mail hired M.A. Wetherell to shoot the famed monster. Finding nothing, he conspired with Spurling to concoct this famous image.

Photos like this of the Hindenburg disaster shattered faith in Zeppelin travel.

Grable’s million-dollar legs were the subject of the most-seen pinup sent to ease the suffering of American troups during World War II.

Adams turned photography into an art, and inspired the preservation of natural wonders in the process.

This portrait of a hero is now an icon for humility and nonviolence.

Halsman’s famous photograph of a really surreal world.