Time - 100 Photographs - The Most Influential Images of All Time - USA (2019)

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 19 Helen of Troy, the mythic Greek demigod who sparked the Trojan War and “launch’d a thousand ships,” had nothi ...

20 It is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’ march toward Ja- pan. The A ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 21 “This is what I was waiting for for 1,400 days,” the Ukrainian-born Yevgeny Khaldei said as he gazed at the r ...

22 At its best, photography captures fleeting snippets that crystallize the hope, anguish, wonder and joy of life. Alfred Eisens ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 23 When the British held Mohandas Gandhi prisoner at Yeravda prison in Pune, India, from 1932 to 1933, the na- t ...

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100 PHOTOGRAPHS 25 He was the greatest ballplayer of them all, the towering Sultan of Swat. But by 1948, Babe Ruth had been out ...

26 Although lauded for his war photography, W. Eugene Smith left his most enduring mark with a series of midcentury photo essays ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 27 Before they could become American royalty, America needed to meet John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee ...

28 When Richard Avedon photographed Dovima at a Paris circus in 1955 for Harper’s Bazaar, both were already prominent in their f ...

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30 The day before Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, a ship had exploded in Havana Har ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 31 For decades, the California Dream meant the chance to own a stucco home on a sliver of paradise. The point wa ...

32 Malian photographer Malick Sidibé’s life followed the trajectory of his nation. He started out herding his family’s goats, th ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 33 Harry Benson didn’t want to meet the Beatles. The Glasgow-born photographer had plans to cover a news story i ...

34 So much of great photography is being in the right spot at the right moment. That was what it was like for sports illustrated ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 35 After decades leading the Chinese Communist Party and then his nation, Mao Zedong began to worry about how he ...

36 The Olympics are intended to be a celebration of global unity. But when the American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos a ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 37 Few remember Biafra, the tiny western African nation that split off from southern Nigeria in 1967 and was re- ...

38 People simply could not get enough of Jacqueline Ken- nedy Onassis, the beautiful young widow of the slain President who marr ...