Magnum: Photos that Changed the World

March 8, 2008 at 11:45 am · Filed under Art

In celebration of Magnum’s 60′s anniversary, they created a list of what the deemed as the photographs that changed the world. Here are some of my favorites:

(c) Magnum Photos

Young people watch a huge plume of smoke rise from
lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11,
2001.

(c) Magnum Photos
TEHRAN, Iran—Veiled women learn how to shoot in the outskirts of the city, 1986.

(c) Magnum Photos
SAIGON, Vietnam—The Saigon fire department, which has the job of
collecting the dead from city streets, has just placed a girl, killed
by U.S. helicopter fire, in the back of their truck, where her brother
finds her, 1968.

(c) Magnum Photos

NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950.

(c) Magnum Photos
ARLINGTON, Va.—Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march, 1967.

Of course, there are a lot more images, including extremely famous ones such as Cappa, Tiananmen Square, and the National Geographic Girl.

For more, check out this slide show on Slate.




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  • http://www.iamleet.com m7md

    loved the first one, showing how careless humans can be (:, i guess the others are all history that we wish it won’t come back except for the last one, we need people who fights with peace for peace.

  • http://www.jorzine.com ali alhasani

    Really some pictures are fascinating! , I love these stuff.

  • http://jarrarsupariver.blogspot.com Jeffrey Schuster

    I was teaching here in New York on the morning on 9/11. It was such a beautiful, crisp fall day (as you can see in the first photo). During a break between classes, one of my students — from Korea — came up to me and told me that she had heard about a plane hitting a building. I assured her that it was probably just a small plane that had lost its way. Every now and then something like that happened, I added. But when I left the college I could see that a huge plume of smoke was rising over lower Manhattan. That could not have been made from a small plane that had lost its way, of course..

    As soon as I got home, my wife explained everything to me and, with a living room view of the entire Manhattan skyline, we watched what was happening. The next day the strangest thing was the absence of planes in the air over New York. Only occasionally we would hear F-16s high up streaking across the city. The wind shifted around the third day, pushing from south to north, and we smelled the burning heap at Ground Zero for about two to three weeks through our windows.

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  • AG

    I cant wait till this picture changes something in the world…
    http://bp2.blogger.com/_Mp8-4cB3gTM/RgpNhDaS9FI/AAAAAAAAAFU/vJgv1uAufGk/s1600-h/AlDurrah3.jpg

  • http://blog.al-wlid.com مدونة الوليد

    there are a lot of pics change the way of thinking
    and chang how to see something as normal or real !

    ,,
    and realy I like the picture that added Ayub
    I think because the picture did not change the Palestinian situation!

    thanx

  • Rania

    You should check pictures by photographers like Robert Capa and Dan Eldon…great great photojouranlists, great effects and great stories!..enjoy!

  • jan rose kasmir

    I thank you all. Shalom, jan rose