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

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 39 Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected Marxist head of state, and he assumed the presidency of ...

40 Susan Meiselas traveled to Nicaragua in the late 1970s as a young photographer with an anthropologist’s eye, keen to make sen ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 41 It may be the most famous silhouette ever photographed. Shooting Michael Jordan for life in 1984, Jacobus “Co ...

42 David Kirby died surrounded by his family. But Therese Frare’s photograph of the 32-year-old man on his deathbed did more tha ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 43 The Hollywood star Demi Moore was seven months pregnant with her second child when she graced the cov- er of ...

EVIDENCE Knowledge is power, said Sir Francis Bacon—and photography greatly ex- panded access to that power. Before photography, ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 45 Decades before Ansel Adams ever saw Yosemite’s jag- ged peaks, Carleton Watkins packed his mammoth plate came ...

46 It was at Antietam, the blood-churning battle in Sharps- burg, Md., where more Americans died in a single day than ever had b ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 47 Native Americans were the great casualty of the U.S.’s grand westward advance. As settlers tamed the seemingl ...

48 As a leader of the Photo-Secession movement, Alfred Stieglitz searched for beauty through the craftsmanlike creation of photo ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 49 Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine believed that ima ...

50 For seven decades, the July 1918 deaths of Czar Nicholas  II, Czarina Alexandra and their four daughters and son at Ipatiev H ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 51 Spectacle was like oxygen for the Nazis, and Heinrich Hoffmann was instrumental in staging Hitler’s grow- ing ...

52 Zeppelins were majestic skyliners, luxurious behemoths that signified wealth and power. The arrival of these ships was news, ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 53 The same imperialistic desires festering in Europe in the 1930s had already swept into Asia. Yet many America ...

54 The Polish-born Dmitri Baltermants had planned to be a math teacher but instead fell in love with photography. Just as World ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 55 The terrified young boy with his hands raised at the center of this image was one of nearly half a million Je ...

56 Arthur Fellig had a sharp eye for the unfairness of life. An Austrian immigrant who grew up on the gritty streets of New York ...

It was the invasion to save civilization, and life’s Robert Capa was there, the only still photographer to wade with the 34,250 ...

58 Three days after an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy obliterated Hiroshima, Japan, U.S. forces dropped an even more powerful ...