The 10 Most Influential Photos of All Time
We face many events in life, and it seems like our worst is our problem. Here we have compiled photographs to thank you. Is life really so bad? We must ask ourselves is life so cruel or brutal do we? A world full of cruelty.
10.Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still, 1978
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film
director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Since she burst onto the art
scene in the late 1970s, Cindy Sherman the person has always been obscured by
Cindy Sherman the subject. Her images have become some of the most valuable
photographs ever produced. By manipulating viewers and recasting her own
identity, Sherman carved out a new place for photography in fine art. And she
showed that even photography allows people to be something they’re not.
9.Untitled (Cowboy),
Richard Prince, 1989
The picture by Richard Prince taken in 1989, named
Untitled (Cowboy). It was sold for $1.2 million at auction in 2005. It was the
highest publicly recorded price for the sale of a contemporary photograph.
8.Lunch Atop A
Skyscraper, 1932
It’s the most dangerous or risky yet playful lunch
break ever captured. 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as
if they weren’t 840 feet above Manhattan with nothing but a thin beam keeping
them aloft. That comfort is real; the men are among the construction workers
who helped build Rockefeller Center. But the picture, taken on the 69th floor
of the flagship RCA Building (now the GE Building), was staged as part of a
promotional campaign for the massive skyscraper complex.
7.A Man On The
Moon, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, 1969
6.The
Hindenburg Disaster, Sam Shere, 1937
This photo of 804-foot-long German passenger airship
LZ 129 Hindenburg, was taken by the Sam Shere of the International News Photos
service, at the Lakehurst, N.J., Naval Air Station on May 6, 1937. It was taken
exactly when, the grand ship’s flammable hydrogen caught fire, causing it to spectacularly
burst into bright yellow flames and kill 36 people.
Shere was one of nearly two dozen still and newsreel photographers who
scrambled to document the fast-moving tragedy. But it is his image, with its
stark immediacy and horrible grandeur, that has endured as the most
famous—owing to its publication on front pages around the world and in LIFE
and, more than three decades later, its use on the cover of the first Led
Zeppelin album.
5.Migrant
Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936
4.Jewish Boy Surrenders In Warsaw, 1943
3.The Terror Of
War, Nick Ut, 1972
This photo is taken by Nick Ut, on June 8, 1972. A
9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc running alongwith a group of children and
soldiers. She had been hit by napalm that South Vietnamese air force mistakenly
dropped on the village. The photo was awarded Pulitzer prize in 1973.
2.Aylan Kurdi,
Nilüfer Demir, 2015
The war in Syria had been going on for more than four
years when Alan Kurdi’s parents lifted the 3-year-old boy and his 5-year-old
brother into an inflatable boat and set off from the Turkish coast for the
Greek island of Kos, just three miles away. Within minutes of pushing off, a
wave capsized the vessel, and the mother and both sons drowned. On the shore
near the coastal town of Bodrum a few hours later, Nilufer Demir of the Dogan
News Agency, came upon Alan, his face turned to one side and bottom elevated as
if he were just asleep.
1.Starving
Child And Vulture, Kevin Carter, 1993
The most haunting image on the most influential photos
of all time. In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern
Sudan, where he took an iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated
Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod.
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