Iconic Photos

In the early 1970s, a wave of anthropologists, archaeologists and others who descended on Mindanao, in the southern Philippines.

John Vachon, a taciturn, brooding, hard-drinking photographer, traveled around America and around the world for nearly forty years taking photos first for Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later for LOOK magazine.

At the beginning of 1943, the Fascist Italy was looking at bitter defeat.

The portrayal of the Vietnam War was predominantly influenced by Western journalists and reporters.

When Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to the Soviet Union in 1954, he was entering a world that most Western audiences knew almost entirely through propaganda, and Cold War paranoia.

While Joachim Heldt and Rolf Gilhausen were documenting China in late 1958 for Stern, another great photographer was also in China.

In 1989, photographer Hans-Jürgen Burkard started working for Stern magazine.

In the 1990s, Jane Evelyn Atwood visited over 40 prisons in twelve countries across Europe and the United States over a period of one decade to document female incarceration.

In late June 1989, appeared in Sette — long after they had appeared in newsreels and the photos of Charlie Cole, Stuart Franklin, Jeff Widener — the photos of Tiananmen Square protests, taken by another photographer, the future Magnum member Patrick Zachm…

In fall 1962, California surpassed New York in population to become the most populous state in the United States.

At 11:30 am on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest.

After the levees gave way in New Orleans, Ron Beinner, the photography editor at Vanity Fair asked photographer Jonas Karlsson and two assistants to accompany him and wade through the city to create a photographic evidence of the unfolding disaster.