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Guerrillero Heroico
iconic photo of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara by Alberto Korda
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
1932 photograph of workers atop the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller Plaza
View from the Window at Le Gras
the earliest known surviving photograph produced in the camera obscura by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Raising a flag over the Reichstag
iconic photograph from World War II
V-J Day in Times Square
1945 photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Cottingley Fairies
series of photographs
Bloody Saturday
photograph by H. S. Wong
Evelyn McHale
Subject of iconic suicide photo (1923–1947)
A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw
famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising photograph
Photo 51
photograph of X-ray diffraction image of DNA fibers
Ink Flag
raising of the Ink Flag at Umm Rashrash
Kombat
photograph by Max Alpert
The last Jew in Vinnitsa
iconic photograph picturing the imminent execution of a Jewish man by a Nazi
Sonderkommando photographs
four photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland
The Woman with the Handbag
1985 photograph by Hans Runesson
Into the Jaws of Death
item in the National Archives and Records Administration's holdings
Auschwitz Album
unique photographic record of the Holocaust of the Second World War
Saigon Execution
1968 photograph by Eddie Adams
Kozarčanka
thumb|Kozarčanka by Georgij "Žorž" Skrigin. The subject of the photo is Milja Marin (). '''''' () is a World War II photograph that became iconic in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Shot by Yugoslav artistic photographer Georgij "Žorž" Skrigin in northern Bosnia during the winter of 1943–44, it shows a smiling female Partisan wearing a Titovka cap and with an MP-40 slung over her shoulder.
The Roaring Lion
photograph by Yousuf Karsh
Wait for Me, Daddy!
photograph
A Great Day in Harlem
photograph by Art Kane
The Falling Soldier
photograph by Robert Capa
Boulevard du Temple
daguerreotype
Eltanin Antenna
unusual object photographed on the sea floor by the USNS Eltanin
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
ghost
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
photograph by Dorothea Lange
Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph
image of the Holocaust in Ukraine
Valley of the Shadow of Death
photograph by Roger Fenton
Dewey Defeats Truman
erroneous newspaper headline about the 1948 U.S. presidential election
Ingres's Violin
photograph by Man Ray
Dalí Atomicus
photograph by Philippe Halsman
Dancing Man
picture of a man dancing on the street in Sydney, Australia
McMinnville UFO photographs
photographs taken in Oregon, US
Paratroopers at the Western Wall
photograph
The Kiss of Death (1957)
1957 black and white photograph
St Paul's Survives
photograph
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District
photograph by Alice Seeley
Woman training for a Republican militia
Photography of Gerda Taro during the Spanish civil war in 1936
Kongebjørka
thumb|The iconic photograph of King Haakon VII and Crown Prince Olav seeking shelter under the birch tree during a German bombing raid in April 1940 thumb|The Kongebjørka memorial in 2018 The Royal Birch () is a Norwegian national symbol and memorial of the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. It is located at Glomstua in the city of Molde in More og Romsdal, Norway.
The Boy Standing by the Crematory
historic photograph
The Terror of War
photograph attributed to Nick Ut (1972)
The Steerage
photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907
Sunbaker
Sunbaker is a 1937 black-and-white photograph by Australian modernist photographer Max Dupain. It depicts the head and shoulders of a man lying on a beach in New South Wales, taken from a low angle. The iconic photograph has been described as "quintessentially Australian", a "sort of icon of the Australian way of life", and "arguably the most widely recognised of all Australian photographs."
Burst of Joy
photograph
Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea
photograph by Max Desfor
The Ultimate Confrontation
photograph
Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn
historic photograph depicting the end of World War II in Finland
The Magnificent Eleven
a series of photographs of the landing on 6 June 1944 on Omaha Beach, Normandy (R. Capa)
Fire Escape Collapse
photograph by Stanley Forman
Noire et Blanche
photograph by Man Ray
Nude
Photograph by Edward Weston
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (MET, 2005.100.1201)
Tragedy by the Sea
1955 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph
Tea cup ballet
photograph by Olive Cotton
Faith and Confidence
1958 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph
Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama
1856 photographs of Toronto
Camera Work: Winter - Fifth Avenue
photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 Pulitzer prize winning photograph