This photograph has a shock impact because it shows the difference between the developed and the developing countries. It is so unfortunate that this child is clearly starving as its skeletal hand is placed in the hand of a white missionary.
Kevin Carter - Vulture Stalking Child
This image is so harrowing to think that this child is being stalked for food by the vulture. It is such a disturbing picture I don't want to think what happened to the child after this was taken. Although this photograph won a Pulitzer Prize, Carter came under a lot of scrutiny for spending 20 minutes setting up the photograph rather than helping the child. Three month's after taking this photo, he committed suicide.
Alberto Korda - Che Guevara
This is one of the most iconic and well known pictures of all time. It appears on T-shirts, tattoos, walls and murials around the world. Dispite the worldwide mass production of this image, Korda accepted no payment for his work and the rights for this picture are now disputed.
Huynh Cong Ut - Napalm Strike
Moon Landing
Joe Rosenthal - Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
This photograph was taken on February 23, 1954 and is possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time. I really like this photograph, I think the composition is brilliant, it captures the event really well and since this was taken in 1954 not many people were good at photography and I personally think that you have to possess more skill to be a good film photographer than a digital photographer because photoshop was non-existant when this was taken and he has achieved this brilliant photo just by knowing how to work his camera.
Tank Man - Jeff Widener
Richard Drew - The Falling Man
Although this image is technically brilliant, composition wise, the way he has captured the lines of the buildings and the shutter speed just right to capture the fall, it is heart-wrenching. This was taken in New York on September the 11th, 2001. Once the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center had been hit, lots of people were jumping out of buildings to speed up their death because they knew they were going to die. This was such a memorable shocking day and it makes me very angry and upset to think how many innocent people lost their lives.
Lawrence Beitler - Lynching
This photograph was taken on August 7, 1930. Although this is one of the best and most famous images which represents lynching, I find this image very disturbing how people are gathered round celebrating the deaths of two black people. It makes me sad to think that different races/cultures couldn't and still can't get along and white people thought it was perfectly acceptable to murder people of a different race.
This photograph was taken on July 22, 1975. Stanley J. Forman was rushed to the scene in a fire truck working for the Boston Herald. Once he arrived a young woman and child fell from a balcony destroyed by the fire. Sadly the woman died on impact but the child survived. This photograph made Boston and several other cities enforce more fire safety laws.
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