Photos that changed the world. Part 1 (39 photos)

100 most significant photographs according to Time magazine. I didn't include a photo of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore. Or the moralists would tear me to pieces...

99 cents. Diptych, Andreas Gursky, 1999





Time magazine has collected 100 of the most influential photographs in history. To implement this project, they first turned to experts, then to museum workers, historians and editors around the world. Moreover, they had to interview the photographers, the subjects of the pictures, their friends and relatives to unearth the incredible stories behind each photo.

There is no universal recipe for making a picture significant, Time summed up. Some images made it onto this list because they were the first of their kind, while others changed people's perceptions of something, and still others literally influenced our lives. The creators of the project claim that each of these 100 pictures became a turning point in people's experiences.

The list includes such famous shots as the photo "View from the Window at Le Gras" by Joseph Niepce (1826), "Lunch on a Skyscraper" by an unknown author (1932), "Victory Banner over the Reichstag" by E. A. Khaldei (1945), "The Burning Monk" by Malcolm Brown (1963), "Oscar Selfie" by Bradley Cooper (2014).

Black Power Salute, John Dominis, 1968. African-American athletes at the Mexico City Olympics raised their fists in the air as the "Star-Spangled Banner" was played to symbolize the struggle for black rights



Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, Julius Shulman, 1960





Abraham Lincoln, Matthew Brady, 1860



Aylan Kurdi, Nilüfer Demir, 2015. The photograph has become a symbol of the refugee tragedy. It depicts a 3-year-old Syrian boy who died tragically along with several of his relatives on September 2, 2015, while the family was attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.



American Gothic, Gordon Parks, 1942



Androgyny (6 Males + 6 Females), Nancy Burson, 1982 g.



Gangsters' Rest Stop at 59½ Mulberry Street, Jacob Riis, 1888



Nameless Cowboy, Richard Prince, 1989 g



Betty Grable, Frank Powolny, 1943



Birmingham, Alabama, Charles Moore, 1963



Fight The Fab Four's Pillow Fight, Harry Benson, 1964



Bosnia, Ron Haviv, 1992



Brian Ridley and Lyle Heather, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1979



Boulevard du Temple in Paris, Louis Daguerre, 1839



Wagon – New Orleans, Robert Frank, 1955



View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Niepce, 1826. The earliest surviving heliogravure, considered the world's first photograph taken from life.



Soweto Uprising, Sam Nzima, 1976



Earthrise, William Anders, 1968



Invasion of Prague, Josef Koudelka, 1968



The Hague, Erich Salomon, 1930



Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel, Margaret Bourke-White, 1946



Heroic Guerrilla (Che Guevara), Alberto Korda, 1960



Hitler at a Nazi Rally, Heinrich Hoffmann, 1934



Famine in Somalia, James Nachtwey, 1992



Starving Child and Vulture, Kevin Carter, 1993



"The Vulture and the Little Girl" is a famous photograph by Kevin Carter that first appeared in The New York Times on March 26, 1993. The photograph shows a starving, emaciated boy (initially thought to be a girl) with a vulture perched next to him, waiting for the child to die. It was later discovered that the child was attempting to reach a United Nations feeding center about half a mile away in Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan), in March 1993. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994. Carter committed suicide four months after winning the award. When the public learned that the photographer had not helped the child, but had waited for the vulture to fly closer to take the next picture, everyone turned against him.

Grief, Dmitry Baltermants, 1942



Gorilla in the Congo, Brent Stirton, 2007



The Burning Monk, Malcolm Brown, 1963



Dali Atomicus, Philippe Halsman, 1948



Girl at the Cotton Mill, Lewis Hine, 1908



D-Day, Robert Capa, 1944. Allied landings on Omaha Beach in Normandy.



Victory over Japan Day in Times Square, Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945



Dovima with Elephants, Dior Evening Dress, Paris, August 1955, Richard Avedon



Valley of the Shadow of Death, Roger Fenton, 1855



A Jewish Boy Surrenders in Warsaw, Unknown, 1943



Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1932



Behind Closed Doors, Donna Ferrato, 1982



Closed Casket, Tami Silicio, 2004