This is alist of photographs considered the most important in surveys where authoritative sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—and are considered key images in thehistory of photography.

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	View from the Window at Le Gras (French:Point de vue du Gras)	1826	Nicéphore Niépce	Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France	Bitumen-coated pewter plate	Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph.[1]	[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4]
	Windows From Inside South Gallery[a]	August 1835	William Henry Fox Talbot	Lacock, England, United Kingdom	Photogenic drawing negative	The earliest surviving photographic negative and the earliest surviving paper photograph.[3][4]	[s 1][s 2]
	The Artist's Studio	1837	Louis Daguerre	Paris, France	Daguerreotype		[s 2]
	Boulevard du Temple	1838	Louis Daguerre	Paris, France	Daguerreotype	The earliest surviving photograph depicting people: a person working as a shoeshiner and an individual having his shoes shined.[5]	[s 1][s 3]
	Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man[b]	18 October 1840	Hippolyte Bayard	Paris, France[6]	Direct Positive	Possibly the earliest knownstaged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process.[7][8]	[s 1]
	The Haystack	1844[c]	William Henry Fox Talbot	Lacock, England, United Kingdom[11]	Calotype	A photograph that appeared inThe Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published.[12]	[s 1]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	The MimeCharles Deburau asPierrot	1854	Nadar	Paris, France	Salt print	The photograph is part of a series taken during the 1850s.[d]	[s 1]
	The Cook House of the 8th Hussars	April 1855	Roger Fenton	Crimea	Salt print		[s 2]
	Valley of the Shadow of Death	23 April 1855	Roger Fenton	Sevastopol, Crimea	Wet collodion negative	Fenton's pictures during theCrimean War were one of the first cases ofwar photography, withValley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" byThe Oxford Companion to the Photograph.[13][14]	[s 3]
	Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter	1855	Unknown; attributed toJohn Jabez Edwin Mayall[15]	Unknown[e]	Unknown (likely albumen print)		[s 1]
	The Brig[f]	1856	Gustave Le Gray	Normandy, France	Albumen print		[s 1]
	Portrait ofNariakira Shimazu	17 September 1857	Shiro Ichiki	Satsuma Domain, Japan	Daguerreotype	Oldestdaguerreotype by a Japanese author;[20] first photo designated anImportant Cultural Property by thegovernment of Japan in 1999.[21]	[s 1]
	Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern[g]	November 1857	Robert Howlett	London, England	Glass plate	Landmarkenvironmental portraiture and iconography of theIndustrial Revolution and 19th century.	[s 1]
	Two Ways of Life	1857	Oscar Gustave Rejlander	Wolverhampton, England[22]	Albumen print		[s 1]
	La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene)	1857	Camille Silvy	Nogent-le-Rotrou, France	Albumen print		[s 1]
	Fading Away	1858	Henry Peach Robinson	Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom[23]	Albumen print		[s 1]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Abraham Lincoln	27 February 1860	Mathew Brady	New York City, United States	Gelatin silver print	Taken shortly before Lincoln'sCooper Institute speech. Widely used in his campaign during the1860 presidential election, both Brady's photo and the speech helped him become president.[24]	[s 2][s 3][s 5]
	Guardian Angel, One Person Praying	c. 1860	Unknown	London, England, United Kingdom	Albumen print		[s 2]
	Boston, As the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It	13 October 1860	James Walice Black	Boston, Massachusetts, United States	Glass plate		[s 2]
	Cathedral Rock	1861	Carleton Watkins	Yosemite National Park, California, United States	Albumen print		[s 3]
	The Dead of Antietam[h]	1862	Alexander Gardner	Antietam, Maryland, United States	Large-format glass plate	Showing the aftermath of theBattle of Antietam—the deadliest single day in theAmerican Civil War	[s 3][s 4]
	The Scourged Back	c. 2 April 1863	McPherson & Oliver	Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States	Albumen print	One of the most widely distributed photos of theabolitionist movement.	[s 4]
	Cartes de Visite	May - August 1863	Andre Adolphe Disderi	Paris, France	Albumen print		[s 2]
	The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg	July 1863	Alexander Gardner	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States	Large-format glass plate		[s 2]
	Sarah Bernhardt	1864	Nadar	Paris, France	Glass plate		[s 2]
	Wanted Poster	20 April 1865	Unknown	United States	Unknown	Broadside advertising reward for capture ofLincoln assassination conspirators, illustrated with photographic prints ofJohn H. Surratt,John Wilkes Booth, andDavid E. Herold.	[s 2]
	Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators atWashington Arsenal	7 July 1865	Alexander Gardner	Washington, D.C., United States	Albumen print		[s 1]
	Portrait ofSir John Herschel	1867	Julia Margaret Cameron	Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom	Carbon print	Herschel would later be the godfather to Cameron's firstborn.[25]	[s 1]
	Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!	1867	Julia Margaret Cameron	Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom	Carbon print		[s 2]
	Close No. 193 High Street	1868	Thomas Annan	Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom	Photogravure		[s 2]
	East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail	10 May 1869	Andrew J. Russell	Promontory, Utah, United States	Glass plate	The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869; completion of theFirst Transcontinental Railroad.Central Pacific Railroad (left), meetsUnion Pacific Railroad (right) and exchange bottles of water from thePacific andAtlantic Oceans.	[s 2][s 4]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Old Faithful	1870	William Henry Jackson	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States	Mammoth-format plate		[s 2]
	Great Falls of theYellowstone River	1871	William Henry Jackson	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States	Albumen print		[s 4]
	Chicago Fire	October 1871	Unknown	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Unknown		[s 2]
	Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly	1873	Timothy O'Sullivan	Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, United States	Albumen print		[s 1]
	Steinway Hall	2 December 1873	Unknown	New York City, United States	Halftone print	Steinway Hall on East14th Street, betweenUniversity Place andFifth Avenue inManhattan. The first halftone print of a photo used in a periodical in the United States.	[s 2]
	Composite Portraits of Criminal Types	1877	Francis Galton	London, England, United Kingdom	Unknown		[s 2]
	The Horse in Motion	June 1878	Eadweard Muybridge	Palo Alto, California, United States	Composite from multiple glass plates	Series ofcabinet cards regarded as a precursor to motion pictures. Pictured left is the variantSallie Gardner at a Gallop, which further captured a horse's motion.	[s 2][s 3][s 4]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street	1880	Jacob Riis	New York City, United States	Gelatin silver print		[s 2]
	Water Rats	1886	Frank Meadow Sutcliffe	Whitby, England, United Kingdom	Albumen print		[s 1]
	Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street	1888	Jacob Riis	Mulberry Bend, New York City, United States	Gelatin silver print	Part ofHow the Other Half Lives, an earlyphotojournalist publication pursuing better conditions for the lower class of New York City. The photo and publication's impact was such that they contributed to the crime-ridden Bend's replacement withColumbus Park.[26][27]	[s 3]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen	1895	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	Würzburg,Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany	X-ray	The firstX-ray, taken by its inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring.	[s 2][s 3][s 4]
	Shroud of Turin negative	1898	Secondo Pia	Turin, Italy	Negative	Photographic negative of an ancient cloth relic shows details of ascourged andcrucified human body	[s 2]
	Organ Player and Singing Girl	1898	Eugène Atget	Paris, France	Gelatin silver print		[s 2]
	Portrait ofEmil Racoviță	1899	Louis Boutan	Banyuls-sur-Mer, France	Glass plate	First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed forunderwater photography.[28]	[s 4]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	A Sea of Steps	1903	Frederick H. Evans	Wells Cathedral, England, United Kingdom	Large Format	One of Evans's finest works inarchitectural photography.	[s 1]
	First Flight	17 December 1903	John T. Daniels	Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, United States	Glass plate	Captured flight of the first airplane, theWright Flyer, flown by inventorsOrville and Wilbur Wright.	[s 2][s 4]
	The Vanishing Race–Navaho	1904	Edward S. Curtis	Arizona, United States[29]	Photogravure	Taken during thecultural assimilation of Native Americans while also popularizing theVanishing Indian stereotype.	[s 1][s 3]
	The Flatiron	1904	Edward Steichen	New York City, United States	Blue-green pigmentgum bichromate over platinum print	A print of this photograph became the second most expensive photograph ever sold on 9 November, 2022, when it sold for $11,840,000, at Christie's New York, well above the estimate of $2,000,000–3,000,000.	[s 2]
	The Pond—Moonlight	1904	Edward Steichen	Mamaroneck, New York, United States	Multiple gum bichromate print over platinum	Pictorialisthand-colored photograph; only three versions exist. In 2006, a print becamethe most expensive photo sold.[30][31]	[s 3]
	An Oasis in the Badlands	1905	Edward S. Curtis	South Dakota, United States	Glass plate		[s 2]
	Bichonnade in Flight	1905	Jacques Henri Lartigue	Paris, France	Gelatin silver print		[s 2]
	San Francisco Earthquake	18 April 1906	Arnold Genthe	San Francisco, California, United States	Unknown (likely gelatin silver print)		[s 2]
	The Steerage	1907	Alfred Stieglitz	Aboard theSSKaiser Wilhelm II, possibly anchored atPlymouth, England, United Kingdom[32]	Glass plate	Landmarkmodernist photo depicting immigrants on theSSKaiser Wilhelm II.[33]	[s 1][s 3]
	Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill[i]	1908	Lewis Hine	Newberry, South Carolina, United States	Glass plate	Part of a series by theNational Child Labor Committee to havechild labor laws passed.	[s 3]
	The North Pole	6 April 1909	Robert E. Perry	Arctic Ocean			[s 2]
	Cactus Hot Air Balloon	1909	Léon Gimpel	Paris, France	Autochrome		[s 2][s 4]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Breaker Boys	1911	Lewis Hine	Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States	Unknown (likely gelatin silver print)	Part of a series by the National Child Labor Committee to have child labor laws passed.	[s 2][s 4]
	Triangle Shirtwaist Fire	25 March 1911	Brown Brothers	New York City, United States			[s 2][s 4]
	The South Pole	14 December 1911	Bjorn Finstad	South Pole, Antarctica		Amundsen's South Pole expedition	[s 2]
	Girl with a Mirror	1912[35]	Clarence H. White	New York City, United States	Platinum print		[s 1]
	Storyville Portrait	1912	E.J. Bellocq	Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States			[s 1]
	Une Delage au Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France de 1912	1912	Jacques-Henri Lartigue	Dieppe, France	Large Format	This photo depictsRené Croquet [fr], with hisriding mechanic.[j][36][37][38][39]	[s 1]
	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney	15 January 1913	Baron Adolphe de Meyer	New York City, United States			[s 2]
	Trampled by the Kings Horse	4 June 1913	Arthur Barrett	United Kingdom		Emily Davison is struck by King George's horse, Anmer, and knocked unconscious. She died four days later from a fractured skull.	[s 2]
	Abstraction, Porch Shadows[k]	1916[l]	Paul Strand	Salisbury, Connecticut, United States	Silver-platinum print		[s 1]
	Passport ofIsadora Duncan	1916	Copied by Brad Trent	United States			[s 2]
	Blind Woman, New York	1916	Paul Strand	New York City, United States	Large format camera with trick lens and right-angle mirror		[s 3]
	Cottingley Fairies	1917	Elsie Wright	Cottingley,West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom	Glass plate		[s 2]
	German Trenches Near Reims	1918	Julien Bryan	Reims, France			[s 2]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Armco Steel	1922	Edward Weston	Middletown, Ohio, United States	Gelatin silver print		[s 1]
	Le Violon d'Ingres	1924	Man Ray	Paris, France	Unknown	The photograph depictsAlice Prin, known as Kiki de Montparnasse, from the back and nude to below her waist. Twof-holes are painted on her back to make her body resemble a violin.	[s 1]
	Movement Study	1926	Rudolf Koppitz	Vienna, Austria	Gelatin silver print on carte-postale		[s 1]
	Kiki with African Mask	1926	Man Ray	Paris, France	Gelatin silver print		[s 2]
	Charles Lindbergh,Croydon Aerodrome	29 May 1927	Pacific and Atlantic photos inc.	London, England, United Kingdom			[s 2]
	Monolith, the Face of Half Dome	1927	Ansel Adams	Yosemite National Park, California, United States	Glass plate		[s 2]
	Bricklayer	1928	August Sander	Cologne, Germany	Gelatin silver print		[s 3]
	The Pastry Cook	1928	August Sander	Cologne, Germany	Large format		[s 1]
	Woman of Tehuantapec	1929	Tina Modotti	Tehuantepec, Mexico			[s 1]

	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	The Hague	3 January 1930	Erich Salomon	The Hague, the Netherlands			[s 3]
	Al CaponeMug Shot	8 May 1930	Miami Police Department[40]	Miami, United States			[s 4]
	Pepper No. 30	2 August 1930	Edward Weston	Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States	8x10 large format view camera	With carefully crafted tones of light, this photo of a pepper emphasizes third-dimensional depth while defying conventional interpretations of form.	[s 4]
	Lynching	7 August 1930	Lawrence Beitier	Marion, Indiana, United States			[s 2]
See article	Larmes	1930	Man Ray	Paris, France	Gelatin silver print	The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears.	[s 1][s 4]
	Sleeping Woman	1930	Man Ray	Paris, France			[s 2]
See article	Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare	1932	Henri Cartier-Bresson	Paris, France	35 mm		[s 1][s 2][s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Brussels	1932	Henri Cartier-Bresson	Brussels, Belgium			[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Couple in Raccoon Coats	1932	James Van Der Zee	New York City, United States	Unknown		[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Io + gatto (I + Cat)	1932	Wanda Wulz	Trieste, Italy	Gelatin silver print		[s 1]
	Lunch atop a Skyscraper	20 September 1932	Photographer cannot be attributed with certainty – see article	New York City, United States			[s 3]
	Bonnie and Clyde	1933	W. D. Jones	United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Girl with aLeica	1934	Alexander Rodchenko	Moscow,Moscow Oblast, Russia			[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally	1934	Heinrich Hoffmann	Bückeburg, Germany			[s 2][s 3]
	Surgeon's Photograph	1934	Ian Wetherell	Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom			[s 2][s 3]
	First APWirephoto	1 January 1935	Thomas Sande	Adirondack Mountains, New York, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Lady Milbanke as 'Queen of the Amazons'	1935	Yevonde Middleton	London, England			[s 1]
	Migrant Mother	6 March 1936	Dorothea Lange	Nipomo, California, United States	Large format	The photograph depictsFlorence Owens Thompson, a destitute mother during theGreat Depression.[41]	[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4][s 5][s 6]
	Jesse Owens Salute	August 1936	Heinrich Hoffmann	Berlin, Germany	Gelatin silver print		[s 2]
See article	The Falling Soldier	1936	Robert Capa	Espejo, Spain	35 mm	The photograph depicts the death ofRepublican soldierFederico Borrell García in theSpanish Civil War.[42]	[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4][s 6]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Fort Peck Dam	1936	Margaret Bourke-White	Fort Peck, Montana, United States			[s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Goldfish Bowl	1937	Herbert List	Santorini, Greece			[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Louisville Flood	1937	Margaret Bourke-White	Louisville, Kentucky, United States	Large format		[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	TheLambeth Walk	1937	Bill Brandt	London, United Kingdom			[s 1]
	The Hindenburg Disaster	6 May 1937	Sam Shere	Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States	Unknown	The photograph depicts theHindenburg Zeppelin on fire at the mooring mast ofLakehurst.[43]	[s 3][s 6]
	Bloody Saturday	28 August 1937	H. S. Wong	Shanghai, China	35 mm	The photograph depicts a baby in bombed-out ruins in Shanghai.[44]	[s 2][s 3]
See article	Juvisy, France	1938	Henri Cartier‐Bresson	Juvisy-sur-Orge, France	Gelatin silver print		[s 1]
	Louis Knocks Out Schmeling	1938	Unknown photographer for the Associated Press	Bronx, New York, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Mainbocher Corset	1939	Horst P. Horst	Paris, France	Large format		[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Aerial View of Manhattan	1939	Margaret Bourke-White	New York City, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Mulberry Street	1939	Weegee	New York City, United States			[s 4]
	Anne Frank	May 1939	Polyfoto	Amsterdam, Netherlands			[s 2]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Aryan Race Determination Tests	1940	Henry Guttman	Germany			[s 2]
See article	St Paul's Survives	July 1940	Herbert Mason	London, England, United Kingdom	35 mm		[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Buckingham Palace	13 September 1940	Cecil Beaton	London, England, United Kingdom			[s 2]
	Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico	1 November 1941	Ansel Adams	Hernandez, New Mexico, United States	Gelatin silver print, large format		[s 1]
	The Roaring Lion	30 December 1941	Yousuf Karsh	Ottawa, Canada	Large format	Winston Churchill	[s 3][s 6]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Grief	1942	Dmitri Baltermants	Kerch, Ukraine	35 mm		[s 3]
	The Tetons and the Snake River	1942	Ansel Adams	Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States			[s 4]
	American Gothic	August 1942	Gordon Parks	Washington, D.C., United States	35 mm		[s 1][s 3][s 4]
	Betty Grable	1943	Frank Powolny	Los Angeles, California, United States			[s 2][s 3][s 4]
	The Critic	1943	Weegee	New York City, United States	Unknown		[s 1][s 3]
	Warsaw Ghetto boy	1943	Unknown	Warsaw, Poland	35 mm	Originally titledMit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt ('Forcibly pulled out of bunkers')	[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach	20 September 1943	George Strock	Buna, Papua New Guinea	Unknown (likely medium format)		[s 1][s 2][s 4]
	Into the Jaws of Death	6 June 1944	Robert F. Sargent	Omaha Beach, France			[s 3][s 4]
Collection restricted due to copyright View slideshow	The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs)	6 June 1944	Robert Capa	Normandy, France	35 mm		[s 2][s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Prisoners' Hand Marks	1944	Roger Schall	Paris, France			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Saipan	1944	W. Eugene Smith	Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands			[s 2]
	MacArthur Returns	20 October 1944	Gaetano Faillace	Leyte, Philippines		GeneralDouglas MacArthur and staff, accompanied by Philippine presidentSergio Osmeña (left), land at Red Beach,Leyte
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Tide Pool, Point Lobos	1945[45]	Edward Weston	Point Lobos, California, United States			[s 1]
	Yalta Conference	February 1945	U.S. Army Signal Corps	Yalta, Crimea			[s 2]
	Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima	23 February 1945	Joe Rosenthal	Iwo Jima, Japan	Large format	The photograph depicts the raising of theU.S. flag onMount Suribachi during theBattle of Iwo Jima.[46]	[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4][s 6]
	Buchenwald	15 April 1945	Margaret Bourke-White	Ettersberg, Germany			[s 2]
	Inside Buchenwald	16 April 1945	Private H. Miller	Ettersberg, Germany			[s 4]
See article	Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced	April 1945	Henri Cartier‐Bresson	Dessau, Germany	35 mm		[s 2]
	Benito Mussolini	29 April 1945	Vincenzo Carrese	Milan, Italy		The dead body of Benito Mussolini next to his mistressClaretta Petacci and those of other executedfascists, on display inPiazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians a year earlier after executing them in retaliation for resistance activity.	[s 2]
	Raising a Flag over the Reichstag	2 May 1945	Yevgeny Khaldei	Berlin, Germany	35 mm	The photograph depicts the raising of theSoviet flag duringBattle of Berlin.[47]	[s 3]
	Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki	9 August 1945	Charles Levy	Nagasaki, Japan	Unknown		[s 2][s 3][s 5]
	V-J Day in Times Square	14 August 1945	Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken byVictor Jorgensen)	New York City, United States	35 mm	The photograph depicts aU.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger onVictory over Japan Day.[48]	[s 3][s 4][s 6]
	Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb	1945	George Silk	Hiroshima, Japan			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Atomic Destruction	1945	Bernard Hoffman	Hiroshima, Japan		The photograph was in the first collection depicting the aftermath of thenuclear bombing of Hiroshima.	[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel	1946	Margaret Bourke-White	India		The photograph depictsMahatma Gandhi reading beside hisspinning wheel.[49]	[s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Dead Sea Scrolls	1947	Amit Shabi	Israel		The photograph depicts theDead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection ofBiblical manuscripts.[50]	[s 2][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Route 66	1947	Andreas Feininger	Route 66 inArizona, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Barn Owl with Vole	1947	Eric Hosking	Suffolk, England, United Kingdom			[s 1]
	Babe Ruth Bows Out	13 June 1948	Nat Fein	New York City, United States			[s 3]
	Dalí Atomicus	1948	Philippe Halsman	New York City, United States	Unknown		[s 1][s 3][s 4]
	Juris Upatnieks Demonstrating the Hologram	1948	Fritz Goro	Michigan, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Country Doctor	1948	W. Eugene Smith	Kremmling, Colorado, United States			[s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Career Girl	1948	Leonard McCombe	New York City, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Provençal Nude	1949	Willy Ronis	Gordes, France			[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nuns Watching Television	1949	Ralph Morse	Erie, Pennsylvania, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Clarence Hailey Long	1949	Leonard McCombe	Texas, United States			[s 2][s 4]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (French:Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville)	1950	Robert Doisneau	Paris, France	35 mm		[s 1]
	Iron Lung Polio Patients	1950	Unknown	Downey, California, United States			[s 2]
	Albert Einstein	1951	Arthur Sasse	New York City, United States	35 mm		[s 6]
	Photo 51	May 1952	Raymond Gosling andRosalind Franklin	London, England		The photograph depicts anX-ray diffraction image providing key toDNA structure.[51]	[s 2][s 4][s 5]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Moving to the Suburbs	1952	J.R. Eyerman	Lakewood, California, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Announcement ofStalin's Death	6 March 1953	Dmitri Baltermants	Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia			[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Camelot	1953	Hy Peskin	Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States			[s 3][s 4]
	Everest	23 May 1953	Sir Edmund Hillary	Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Atop Mount Everest	23 May 1953	Alfred Gregory	Mount Everest, Koshi Province, Nepal			[s 3][s 4]
	Roger Bannister	6 May 1954	Norman Potter	Oxford, England, United Kingdom	35 mm		[s 2]
	Monroe	9 September 1954	Matty Zimmerman	New York City, United States		The photograph depictsMarilyn Monroe while her white dress blows upwards during a shot for a scene in the 1955 filmThe Seven Year Itch.	[s 6]
	Jackie Robinson	1955	Ralph Morse	Bronx, New York, United States			[s 2]
	Emmett Till's mother at his funeral.	1955	David Jackson	Chicago, Illinois, United States[52]			[s 3][s 5]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Dovima with Elephants	1955	Richard Avedon	Paris, France			[s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Trolley – New Orleans	1955	Robert Frank	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	35 mm		[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In	1956	O. Winston Link	Iaeger, West Virginia, United States	Large format		[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The New King	1956	Charles Trainor	Miami, Florida, United States			[s 4]
	Milk Drop Coronet	1957	Harold E. Edgerton	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	35 mm	Two drops of milk imaged by fast-filmstroboscopic photography	[s 2][s 3][s 4]
	First Digital Photo	1957	Russell Kirsch	Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States	Photo composite of two binary scans		[s 2][s 4]
	Elizabeth Eckford	4 September 1957	Will Counts	Little Rock, Arkansas, United States		Eckford as one of theLittle Rock Nine who faced opposition while attending a formerlysegregated high school.	[s 2][s 4][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Aspens, Northern New Mexico	1958	Ansel Adams	New Mexico, United States	Gelatin silver print		[s 1]
	The Integrated Circuit	1959	Robert Noyce	United States			[s 2]
	First Satellite Image	14 August 1959	Explorer VI	17000 miles above Mexico			[s 2]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
	Guerrillero Heroico	5 March 1960	Alberto Korda	Havana, Cuba	35 mm	The photograph depictsChe Guevara at a funeral for the victims of theLa Coubre explosion. The portrait is commonly displayed as a symbol ofstudent protest andrevolutionary movements, and has appeared on clothing and othermerchandise.[53][54][55]	[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4][s 6]
	Massacre at Sharpeville	21 March 1960	Ian Berry	Sharpeville, South Africa			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles	1960	Julius Shulman	Los Angeles, California, United States	Large format		[s 3][s 4]
	Nixon Vs Kennedy TV Debate	26 September 1960	Paul Schutzer	Chicago, Illinois, United States	35 mm		[s 2]
	American Spy PilotFrancis Gary Powers	16 November 1960	Carl Mydans	Moscow, Russia			[s 2]
	Flavio da Silva	1961	Gordon Parks	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil			[s 2]
	Leap into Freedom	15 August 1961	Peter Leibing	Berlin, Germany	35 mm	The photograph depictsHans Conrad Schumann, anEast German soldier running away overbarbed-wire in Berlin.[56]	[s 3]
	Thalidomide	1962	Stan Wayman	[where?]			[s 2]
	Cuban Missile Crisis	25 October 1962	Neal Boenzi	New York City, United States		Adlai Stevenson II shows aerial photos ofRussian missiles in Cuba to theUnited Nations Security Council in the presence ofUSSR ambassadorValerian Zorin.	[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Birmingham, Alabama	3 May 1963	Charles Moore	Birmingham, Alabama, United States		Nonviolent civil rights movement student activists sprayed by high-pressure fire hoses during theBirmingham campaign'sChildren's Crusade.	[s 2][s 3][s 4]
	Woolworth Sit-In	28, May, 1963	Fred Blackwell	Jackson, Mississippi, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nuit de Noël (Happy Club)	1963	Malick Sidibé	Bamako, Mali			[s 3]
	The Burning Monk	11 June 1963	Malcolm Browne	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	35 mm	The photograph depicts the Vietnamese Buddhist monkThích Quảng Đức protesting thepersecution of Buddhists under the government ofNgo Dinh Diem by committingself-immolation.	[s 3][s 4][s 7]
	I Have a Dream	28 August 1963	Agence France-Presse	Washington, D.C., United States	35 mm	The photograph depictsMartin Luther King Jr. waving to supporters during theMarch on Washington, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, considered the most famous American oration of the twentieth century.[57]	[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Zapruder film	22 November 1963	Abraham Zapruder	Dallas, Texas, United States	35 mm internegative	The film depicts the most complete view of theassassination of US president John F. Kennedy.[58]	[s 2][s 3][s 4]
	Johnson Is Sworn In	22 November 1963	Cecil W. Stoughton	Dallas, Texas, United States		Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office aboardAir Force One atLove Field Airport two hours and eight minutes after theassassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas. Jackie Kennedy (right), still in her blood-soaked clothes, looks on.	[s 2]
	Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald	24 November 1963	Robert H. Jackson	Dallas, Texas, United States	35 mm	The photograph depicts themurder of Lee Harvey Oswald byJack Ruby while Oswald was being escorted by police two days after he hadassassinated US president John F. Kennedy.[59]	[s 4][s 6]
	The Beatles Arrive	1964	Harry Benson	New York City, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Pillow Fight	1964	Harry Benson	Paris, France			[s 3][s 4]
	Selma March	7 March 1965	James H. Karales	Alabama, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks	1965	Lennart Nilsson	Stockholm, Sweden[60]	Unknown		[s 2][s 3][s 4]
	Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II	1965	Neil Leifer	Lewiston, Maine, United States	Medium format		[s 3][s 4][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp	1965	Hugo van Lawick	Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania			[s 7]
	Chairman Mao Swims in theYangtze	1966	Hou Bo	Wuhan, Hubei, China[61]			[s 1][s 2][s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Reaching Out	5 October 1966	Larry Burrows	Mutter's Ridge, Vietnam	35 mm		[s 2][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Mini Moment	3 December 1966	Popperfoto	[where?]			[s 4]
	The Boston Marathon	19 May 1967	Harry Trask	Boston, Massachusetts, United States		RunnerKathrine Switzer attacked by race officialJock Semple while running in the 1967Boston Marathon.	[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	18 June 1967	Jim Marshall	Monterey, California, United States			[s 4]
	Twiggy	1 March 1967	Bernard Gotfryd	London, England, United Kingdom			[s 2]
	Unidentified Flying Object	1967	Ralph Ditter	Zanesville, Ohio, United States			[s 2]
	Patterson-Gimlin Film	20 October 1967	Roger Patterson	Pacific Northwest, United States	16 mm		[s 2]
See article	Flower Power	21 October 1967	Bernie Boston	Washington, D.C., United States	35 mm		[s 2][s 4]
	Saigon Execution	1 February 1968	Eddie Adams	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Unknown		[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4][s 6][s 5][s 7]
	Massacre of Villagers in My Lai	16 March 1968	Ronald L. Haeberle	Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam			[s 1]
	My Lai	16 March 1968	Ronald L. Haeberle	Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam	35 mm	A group of civilian women and children before being killed by theU.S. Army.	[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.	4 April 1968	Joseph Louw	Memphis, Tennessee, United States			[s 4][s 7]
See article	Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy	5 June 1968	Bill Eppridge	Los Angeles, California, United States	35 mm		[s 4][s 7]
	Chicago Democratic Convention Protest	August 1968	Perry C. Riddle	United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Invasion of Prague	August 1968	Josef Koudelka	Prague, Czechia			[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Bratislava Tank Man	August 1968	Ladislav Bielik	Bratislava, Slovakia			[s 2]
	1968 Olympics Black Power Salute	16 October 1968	John Dominis	Mexico City, Mexico			[s 2][s 3][s 4][s 6][s 7]
	Earthrise	24 December 1968	William Anders	TheMoon	Medium format	The photograph depicts the Earth and Moon's surface fromApollo 8.[62]	[s 2][s 3][s 4][s 5]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Albino Boy, Biafra	1969	Don McCullin	Biafra, West Africa			[s 2][s 3]
	Canadian Seal Hunt	1969	Duncan Cameron	Northumberland Strait, Canada			[s 2]
	One Week's Dead	28 May - 3 June 1969	Life Magazine	Various			[s 2]
	Aerial View ofWoodstock Festival	August 1969	Burk Uzzle	Bethel, New York, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Woodstock	August 1969	Bill Eppridge	Bethel, New York, United States			[s 4]
	Buzz Aldrin on the Moon	21 July 1969	Neil Armstrong	Sea of Tranquility, the Moon	70 mm lunar surface camera	Buzz Aldrin duringApollo 11, the first crewed Moon landing	[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 4]
	Apollo 11 Bootprint	21 July 1969	Buzz Aldrin	Sea of Tranquility, the Moon	70 mm lunar surface camera		[s 1][s 3][s 4]
	Altamont	6 December 1969	Unknown photographer for the Associated Press	Altamont Speedway, California, United States			[s 2][s 4]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
See article (cropped)	Kent State Shootings	4 May 1970	John Paul Filo	Kent, Ohio, United States	Unknown		[s 2][s 3][s 4][s 5][s 6]
	Elvis MeetsNixon	21 December 1970	Oliver F. Atkins	Washington, D.C., United States			[s 4]
See article	Tomoko and Mother in the Bath	1971	W. Eugene Smith	Kyūshū, Japan			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Windblown Jackie	1971	Ron Galella	New York City, United States			[s 3][s 4]
	President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong	21 February 1972	Unknown	Beijing, China			[s 2]
	Nixon in China	26 February 1972	Oliver F. Atkins	Beijing, China			[s 4]
	The Terror of War	8 June 1972	Disputed: eitherNick Ut, Nguyễn Thành Nghệ, or Huỳnh Công Phúc	Trảng Bàng, Vietnam	35 mm	The photograph depicts a crowd of Vietnamese people running fromnapalm, among them a girl (later identified asPhan Thi Kim Phuc) who survived by tearing off her burning clothes.[63]	[s 1][s 2][s 3][s 5][s 6][s 7]
	Munich Massacre	5 September 1972	Kurt Strumpf	Munich, Germany	35 mm		[s 2][s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame	1973	Doc Edgerton	United States			[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Allende's Last Stand	11 September 1973	Orlando Lagos	Chile	35 mm		[s 3]
	Patty Hearst Surveillance	15 April 1974	Hibernia Bank Surveillance Camera	San Francisco, California, United States	Surveillance camera still	Patty Hearst, during the April 1974Hibernia bank robbery.	[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nixon Resignation	9 August 1974	Rolls Press	Washington, D.C., United States			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Water‐Towers	1974–2009	Bernd and Hilla Becher	Various locations across Europe and the United States[64]	Large format		[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Prime MinisterGough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of TraditionalGurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari	1975	Mervyn Bishop	Daguragu, Northern Territory, Australia			[s 1]
	HelicopterEvacuation of the US Embassy, Saigon	April 1975	Thai Khac Chuong	Nha Trang, Vietnam	35 mm		[s 2]
See article	Fire Escape Collapse	22 July 1975	Stanley Forman	Boston, Massachusetts, United States			[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Soweto Uprising	16 June 1976	Sam Nzima	Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa	35 mm		[s 2][s 3]
	The Red Planet	21 July 1976	Viking 1	Chryse Planitia, Mars[65]			[s 2][s 4]
	Boat of No Smiles	1977	Eddie Adams	Gulf of Siam			[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Untitled Film Stills	1977–1980	Cindy Sherman	New York City, United States[66]	Unknown		[s 3][s 5]
	Cambodia	1979	Jay Ullal	Cambodia			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter	1979	Robert Mapplethorpe	New York City, United States[67]			[s 3]
	Peace Treaty	26 March 1979	Yaakov Saar	Washington, D.C., United States		The triple handshake in the peace treaty signing between Israel and Egypt on theWhite House lawn	[s 2]
See article	Molotov Man	16 July 1979[68]	Susan Meiselas	Estelí, Nicaragua[69]			[s 3]
	Firing Squad in Iran	27 August 1979	Jahangir Razmi	Kurdistan province, Iran[70]			[s 3]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	John Lennon andYoko Ono	1980	Annie Leibowitz	New York City, United States		Lennon was murdered hours after the photograph was taken by Leibovitz	[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Miracle on Ice	1980	Heinz Kluetmeier	Lake Placid, New York, United States			[s 2][s 7]
	Starving Boy and Missionary	1980	Mike Wells	Uganda			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model	1981	Helmut Newton	Paris, France			[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace	1981	Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield	London, England			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Behind Closed Doors	1982	Donna Ferrato	Saddle River, New Jersey, United States			[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)	1982	Nancy Burson	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States[citation needed]			[s 3]
	Ken Moody and Robert Sherman	1984	Robert Mapplethorpe	New York City, United States			[s 2]
	Milk Carton	1984	Robert Frieder	Detroit, Michigan, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Michael Jordan	1984	Co Rentmeester	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States			[s 3]
	Hole in the Ozone	3 October 1985	NASA	Greenbelt, Maryland, United States			[s 2][s 4]
	Challenger Disaster	28 January 1986	Michele McDonald	Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Ken Meeks, Patient withAIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California	1986	Alon Reininger	San Francisco, California, United States			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The FirstHeart Transplant in Poland	1 January 1987	James L. Stanfield	Zabrze, Poland			[s 7]
See article	Immersion (Piss Christ)	1987	Andres Serrano	United States	Medium format		[s 1][s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Monkey Business	1987	National Enquirer	Bimini, the Bahamas[71]			[s 2][s 4]
See article	Willie Horton	1987	Unknown	Maryland, United States			[s 2]
	Dukakis and the Tank	1988	Michael E. Samojeden	Detroit, Michigan, United States		The infamous photo ofMichael Dukakis taken as part of his presidential campaign.	[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Air Jordan	1988	Walter Iooss	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Medium format		[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Untitled (Cowboy)	1989	Richard Prince	United States	Composite		[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Exxon Valdez Oil Spill	24 March 1989	John S. Lough	Alaska, United States			[s 2]
See article	Tank Man	5 June 1989	Jeff Widener	Beijing, China		The photograph depicts an unidentified protestor confronting column of Chinese military tanks.	[s 2][s 3][s 4][s 6][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Wall Falls	November 1989	Robert Maass	Berlin, Germany			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Nicolae Ceausescu	December 1989	Christopher Pillitz	Romania			[s 2]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
See article	The Face of AIDS	1990	Therese Frare	Columbus, Ohio, United States			[s 2][s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Operation Desert Storm	27 February 1991	David Turnley	Iraq	35 mm		[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Camels in the Oil Fields	1 March 1991	Steve McCurry	Burgan field, Kuwait[72]			[s 7]
See article	L.A. Police Beating Rodney King	3 March 1991	George Holiday	Los Angeles, California, United States			[s 2]
See article	More Demi Moore	1991	Annie Leibovitz	Culver City, California, United States[73]			[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Famine in Somalia	1992	James Nachtwey	Baidoa, Somalia[74]			[s 3]
See article	Dead Troops Talk	1992	Jeff Wall	Muqur District, Ghazni, Afghanistan	Large format lightbox transparency		[s 1]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Bosnia	2 April 1992	Ron Haviv	Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina	35 mm		[s 3]
See article	The Vulture and the Little Girl	March 1993	Kevin Carter	Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan)	35 mm		[s 3][s 6][s 7]
	Beauty Out of Damage	1993	Matuschka	United States		Matuschka's controversialself portrait baring hermastectomy combined with her face. The photo covered theNew York Times Sunday Magazine and helped spark debate aboutbreast cancer around the US and the world	[s 2]
	Rwandan Children	1994	Seamus Conlan and Tara Farrell	Rwanda			[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Oklahoma City Bombing	19 April 1995	Charles Porter IV	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States			[s 2][s 6][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Giant Iceberg	1995	Dr. Hans Oerter	Antarctic Peninsula,Antarctica			[s 2]
	Pillars of Creation	1995	Hubble Space Telescope /NASA	Low Earth orbit	Wide field and planetary camera	The photograph depicts a region of star formation.[75]	[s 3][s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Bill Clinton hugsMonica Lewinsky	1996	Dirck Halstead	Washington, D.C., United States	35 mm		[s 4][s 6]
	First Cell-Phone Picture	11 June 1997	Philippe Kahn	Santa Cruz, California, United States	Camera phone	The subject is Sophie, the daughter ofPhilippe Kahn	[s 2][s 3]
	Chinese Baby	1997	Jeff Abelin	Fuyang,Anhui, China			[s 2]
See article	99 Cent	1999	Andreas Gursky	Los Angeles, California, United States	chromogenic print face-mounted to acrylic		[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Kosovo Refugees	3 May 1999	Carol Guzy	Kukës, Albania[76]			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	World Cup Winners	1999	Robert Beck	Pasadena, California, United States			[s 2][s 4]

Image	Title	Date	Photographer	Location	Format	Notes	Cited survey(s)
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid	2000	Alan Diaz	Miami, Florida, United States			[s 6][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Surfing Hippos	2000	Michael Nichols	Loango National Park, Gabon			[s 3]
	The First Plane Hits theWorld Trade Center	11 September 2001	Jules Naudet	New York City, United States		A screenshot of the Jules Naudet footage that is included in the Naudet brothers'documentary film9/11, originally broadcast on March 10, 2002, onCBS, and later released on DVD.	[s 2]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks	11 September 2001	Doug Mills	Sarasota, Florida, United States[77]			[s 7]
See article	The Falling Man	11 September 2001 9:41:15 A.M.	Richard Drew	New York City, United States			[s 3][s 6][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center	11 September 2001	Patrick Witty	New York City, United States			[s 4][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Father Judge	11 September 2001	Shannon Stapleton	New York City, United States			[s 7]
See article	Raising the Flag at Ground Zero	11 September 2001	Thomas E. Franklin	New York City, United States			[s 2][s 6][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Toppling the Statue ofSaddam Hussein	9 April 2003	Goran Tomasevic	Baghdad, Iraq	35 mm		[s 2]
	The Pencil Nebula	5 June 2003	Hubble Space Telescope /NASA	Low Earth orbit	Wide field and planetary camera		[s 2]
	The Hooded Man	4 November 2003	Ivan Frederick	Abu Ghraib, Iraq		The photograph depicts Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh, anAbu Ghraib prisoner, being subjected to torture.[78]	[s 2][s 3][s 4][s 6]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Sakura Lisi	2004	Marcus Bleasdale	Mongbwalu, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Coffin Ban	2004	Tami Silicio	Kuwait International Airport,Farwaniya Governorate, Kuwait[79]			[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Iraqi Girl	18 January 2005	Chris Hondros	Tal Afar, Iraq			[s 3][s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation	3 September 2005	Eric Gay	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hurricane Katrina	4 September 2005	Robert Galbraith	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Hurricane Katrina	2005	David Phillip	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Jim Comes Home	2005	Todd Heisler	Aurora, Colorado, United States[80]			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Power of One	1 February 2006	Oded Bality	Amona, West Bank	35 mm		[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Gorilla in the Congo	July 2007	Brent Stirton	Virunga National Park,North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo[81]	35 mm		[s 3]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery	27 May 2007	John Moore	Arlington,Virginia, United States			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Homecoming	2007	Louie Favorite	Atlanta, Georgia, United States			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Photo Finish	16 August 2008	Heinz Kluetmeier	Beijing, China	35 mm		[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Married at Last	2008	Marcio Sanchez	San Francisco, California, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The New First Family	2008	Win McNamee	Chicago, Illinois, United States			[s 4]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	Funeral of Edwin Cobbin	2009	Barbara Davidson	Hawthorne, California, United States			[s 7]
See article	Diego Frazão Torquato	2009	Marcos Tristao	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil			[s 7]
	Hair Like Mine	2009	Pete Souza	Washington, D.C., United States			[s 7]
Image restricted due to copyright View photograph	The Death of Neda	2009	Unknown	Tehran, Iran			[s 3]