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

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 59 In August 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chi- cago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he s ...

60 Sometimes the most effective mirror is a photograph. In the summer of 1963, Birmingham was boiling over as black residents an ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 61 In June 1963, most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map. But there was no forgetting that war-torn Southe ...

62 It is the most famous home movie ever, and the most care- fully studied image, an 8-millimeter film that captured the death o ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 63 The act was stunning in its casualness. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams was on the streets of Saigo ...

64 The Soviets did not care for the “socialism with a hu- man face” that Alexander Dubcek’s government brought to Czechoslovakia ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 65 Somewhere in the Sea of Tranquillity, the little depression in which Buzz Aldrin stood on the evening of July ...

66 The shooting at Kent State University in Ohio lasted 13 seconds. When it was over, four students were dead, nine were wounded ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 67 The faces of collateral damage and friendly fire are gener- ally not seen. This was not the case with 9-year- ...

68 The Olympics celebrate the best of humanity, and in 1972 Germany welcomed the Games to exalt its athletes, tout its democracy ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 69 Stanley Forman was working for the Boston Herald Ameri- can on July 22, 1975, when he got a call about a fire ...

70 Few outside South Africa paid much attention to apart- heid before June 16, 1976, when several thousand Soweto students set o ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 71 It’s easy to ignore the plight of refugees. They are seen as numbers more than people, moving from one distan ...

72 Few images are as stark as one of an execution. On August 27, 1979, 11 men who had been convicted of being “coun- terrevoluti ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 73 There was nothing particularly special about Garth and Lisa or the violence that happened in the bathroom of ...

74 On the morning of June 5, 1989, photographer Jeff Wid- ener was perched on a sixth-floor balcony of the Beijing Hotel. It was ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 75 James Nachtwey couldn’t get an assignment in 1992 to document the spiraling famine in Somalia. Mogadi- shu ha ...

76 Kevin Carter knew the stench of death. As a member of the Bang-Bang Club, a quartet of brave photographers who chronicled apa ...

100 PHOTOGRAPHS 77 It can take time for even the most shocking images to have an efect. The war in Bosnia had not yet begun when ...

78 Seven billion human beings take up a certain amount of space, which is one reason why wilderness—true, un- touched wilderness ...