Full Description
A visual journey through two centuries of history: this book collects 100 iconic photographs that captured crucial moments in human history. From world wars to space exploration, civil rights movements to climate change, each image is a window into the past, present, and even a possible future. Taken by legendary photographers or anonymous witnesses of their time, these pictures showcase the powerful storytelling ability of photography as a tool of collective memory. A striking, emotional, and visually rich volume—this updated edition of a bestselling classic brings history into sharp focus for today's readers.
Contents
1869 The Transcontinental Railroad
1889 The Eiffel Tower and the Expo
1895 The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station
1901 Wireless Telegraph Across the Atlantic
1903 The First Flight
1908 The Struggle for Female Suffrage
1909 The First Flight Over the Channel
1909 Robert Peary at the North Pole
1911 Conquest of the South Pole
1912 Great Loss of Life
1913 The First Moving Assembly Line
1915 Gas Attacks in the First World War
1917 Assault on the Winter Palace
1920 Lenin's Speech to the Red Army
1922 Opening of Tutankhamun's Tomb
1927 The First Solo Transatlantic Flight
1929 The Great Depression
1930 Gandhi and the Salt March
1936 Migrant Mother
1936 Falling Soldier
1936 Nazi Party Rally
1937 The Explosion of the Airship Hindenburg
1941 Churchill Among the Ruins of Parliament
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
1943 Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto
1944 Allied Troops Land on Omaha Beach
1945 The Yalta Conference
1945 The Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 Jewish Survivors in Buchenwald
1945 The Nagasaki Atomic Explosion
1945 V-J Day in Times Square
1945 Mother and Child in Hiroshima
1947 From Colonialism to Independence for India
1948 The SS United Nations Lands in Palestine
1948 The Berlin Air Bridge
1949 Mao Zedong Declares the Foundation of the PRC
1953 The Double Helix Model of DNA
1953 Hillary and Tenzing on the Summit of Everest
1953 The Coronation of Elizabeth II
1956 Rosa Parks and Civil Disobedience
1959 Fidel Castro Entering Havana
1959 Tibetan Rebels Surrender to Chinese Troops
1961 The First Man in Space
1961 The Berlin Wall
1963 The Sacrifice of Thich Quang Duc
1963 I Have a Dream
1963 John F. Kennedy's Funeral
1965 The Beatles at Buckingham Palace
1966 Reaching Out
1967 Six Day War
1967 Girl Holding a Flower
1968 The Execution of a Vietcong
1968 The Funeral of Martin Luther King
1968 French May
1968 The Invasion of Prague
1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
1969 Man on the Moon
1969 The Woodstock Festival
1972 Bloody Sunday
1972 The Terror of War
1979 Khomeini Returns to Iran
1979 The Killing Fields in Cambodia
1980 John Lennon's Murder
1981 The Space Shuttle Columbia Launch
1981 The Assassination Attempt on Pope John Paul II
1984 Steve Jobs and the Macintosh 128k
1985 Reagan and Gorbachev at the Geneva Summit
1986 The Explosion of the Chernobyl Reactor
1986 Veiled Women Practicing Shooting
1989 The Exxon Valdez Environmental Disaster
1989 Tank Man
1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990 The Liberation of Nelson Mandela
1991 The First Intifada
1991 Burning Oil Wells
1991 Tim Berners-Lee and the Invention of the Web
1991 Landing of Albanian Refugees in Bari
1993 Vulture Stalking a Child
1993 Signing of the Oslo Peace Accords
1996 The AIDS Memorial Quilt
1999 The Plight of Kosovo Refugees
2001 Afghan Refugee Camp in Pakistan
2001 Ground Zero
2003 An Iraqi Prisoner with His Son
2003 The Destruction of the Statue of Saddam Hussein
2008 The Wall Street Crash
2009 Barack Obama
2011 The Arab Spring in Cairo
2012 The Anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre
2014 Malala Yousafzai Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
2015 The March After the Charlie Hebdo Attack
2015 Selfie by Curiosity on Mars
2015 Refugees Landing on Lesbos
2019 Notre-Dame Burns
2020 Pope Francis' Covid Prayers
2021 Escape from Kabul
2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
2023 New York City Engulfed in Flames
2023 Pietà, Gaza
2024 Assassination Attempt on Trump
