Most important photographs

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T
1	Title	Year(s)	Photographer	Life 2003	Life 2011	Life 2021	Oxford	Time	Atlantic	CNN	Esquire	Monk	Thomson	Koetzle	Perricone	Goldsmith	Lowe	Goldberg	Smith	Count

2	Migrant Mother	1936	Dorothea Lange	54-55	54-55	75	X	X	X	X		20	42-43	144-149	127	53	284-285	134	80-81	12
3	Napalm attack	1972	Nick Ut	134-135	134-135		X	X	X	X	X	44		232-237			547	242	116-117	11
4	Saigon Execution	1968	Eddie Adams	135	135	47	X	X	X	X	X	42			89-90		518	227		10
5	Earthrise	1968	William Anders	172-173	172-173	62		X	X			51	22-23		14-15		520-521	56	110-113	9
6	View from the Window at Le Gras (Point de vue du Gras)	1826	Nicéphore Niépce	12-13	12-13	106-107	X	X				1		8-13	9-10		20		46-47	8
7	The Falling Soldier	1936	Robert Capa	108-109	108-109	36	X	X		X		22		136-143		54	290-291			8
8	Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima	1945	Joe Rosenthal	122	122	42-43	X	X		X		29			36-37	59	353	143		8
9	Guerrillero Heroico	1960	Alberto Korda	24-25	24-25	89	X	X		X			10-11				442-443	157	104-105	8
10	Kent State Shootings	1970	John Paul Filo	132-133	132-133	19		X	X	X		43			42-43		533	238		8
11	Buzz Aldrin on the Moon	1969	Neil Armstrong	172	172	63	X	X				47	50-51		23-24		527			7
12	Boulevard du Temple	1838	Louis Daguerre				X	X				3		14-19	10	58	22			6
13	The Horse in Motion	1878	Eadweard Muybridge	152-153	152-153	108-109		X				9	18-19				111	18		6
14	The Steerage	1907	Alfred Stieglitz				X	X						92-95		54	162		60-61	6
15	The Hindenburg Disaster	1937	Sam Shere					X		X				150-155	128-129	55	296	190		6
16	V-J Day in Times Square	1945	Alfred Eisenstaedt			43		X		X				162-165	38-39		358-359			6
17	The Burning Monk	1963	Malcolm Browne			44-45		X			X				92-93		470	213		6
18	Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston	1965	Neil Leifer			92		X			X		48-49		157-158		485			6
19	Tank Man	1989	Jeff Widener	140-141	140-141	23		X		X	X		56-57		179					6
20	Abraham Lincoln	1860	Mathew Brady	36	36			X	X			6						74		5
21	Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill	1908	Lewis Hine					X				14		96-103	140			175		5
22	Bloody Saturday	1937	H. S. Wong	106-107	106-107			X								58	300	245		5
23	The Roaring Lion, Winston Churchill	1941	Yousuf Karsh					X		X		26				59	329			5
24	Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach	1943	George Strock	112-113	112-113	36-37	X								130-131		335	197		5
25	Atomic Cloud Rises Over Nagasaki	1945	Charles Levy	124-125	124-125			X	X						68-69		362			5
26	Dalí Atomicus	1948	Philippe Halsman			118-119	X	X							152		376			5
27	The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville)	1950	Robert Doisneau				X						46-47	184-189			391		96-97	5
28	Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald	1963	Robert H. Jackson			13				X							465	225	108-109	5
29	The Vulture and the Little Girl	1993	Kevin Carter					X		X	X				80-81		726			5
30	The Falling Man	2001	Richard Drew					X		X	X				62				144-145	5
31	The Situation Room	2011	Pete Souza			48-49		X		X					82		903			5
32	Windows From Inside South Gallery / Lacock Abbey	1835	William Henry Fox Talbot	13	13		X					2					20-21			4
33	Valley of the Shadow of Death	1855	Roger Fenton	100-101	100-101			X							12-13		48-49			4
34	The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen	1895	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	163	163	54		X							18			49		4
35	Pepper No. 30	1930	Edward Weston	30		111										53	246		74-75	4
36	Milk Drop Coronet	1931 / 1957	Harold E. Edgerton	153	153	119		X				18			20					4
37	Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare	1932	Henri Cartier-Bresson	30-31	30-31		X	X									258-259			4
38	American Gothic	1942	Gordon Parks			76-77	X	X									334			4
39	The Critic	1943	Weegee				X	X								59	338			4
40	The Magnificent Eleven (collection of 11 photographs)	1944	Robert Capa	113	113	38*		X									345*		92-93*	4
41	Buchenwald, the living dead	1945	Margaret Bourke-White									30					349	36	94-95	4
42	My Lai massacre, crying woman	1968	Ronald L. Haeberle	132	132		X										516	232		4
43	Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics	1968	John Dominis	70-71	70-71	95		X		X	X									4
44	Immersion (Piss Christ)	1987	Andres Serrano				X	X									661		130-131	4
45	Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky	1996	Dirck Halstead			24				X					50-51		753			4
46	Raising the Flag at Ground Zero	2001	Thomas E. Franklin	144-145	144-145					X	X				63					4
47	Oscars Selfie	2014	Bradley Cooper			126-127		X							120-121		926			4
48	Alan Kurdi	2015	Nilufer Demir			29		X			X						937			4
49	Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man	1840	Hippolyte Bayard				X							20-25			25			3
50	Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern	1857	Robert Howlett				X							42-47			58			3
51	The Dead of Antietam	1862	Alexander Gardner			34-35		X									73			3
52	A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg	1863	Timothy O'Sullivan												24-25			29	52-55	3
53	Sarah Bernhardt	1864	Nadar	16-17	16-17									54-57			81			3
54	Old Faithful	1871	William Henry Jackson	158-159	158-159							8					102-103			3
55	First Flight	1903	John T. Daniels	44-45	44-45	56-57									28-29		148			3
56	Une Delage au Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France de 1912	1912	Jacques-Henri Lartigue				X							104-109			185			3
57	Blind Woman, New York	1916	Paul Strand					X						116-119			190-191			3
58	Le Violon d'Ingres	1924	Man Ray				X										214		66-67	3
59	Io + gatto (I + Cat)	1932	Wanda Wulz				X						30-31				264			3
60	Lunch atop a Skyscraper	1932	Unknown					X					40-41		34-35					3
61	Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally	1934	Heinrich Hoffmann	104-105	104-105			X							65-67					3
62	Mainbocher Corset	1939	Horst P. Horst				X							156-161			312			3
63	Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico	1941	Ansel Adams				X									56	326			3
64	The Tetons and the Snake River	1942	Ansel Adams			104-105							20-21		7					3
65	Warsaw Ghetto boy	1943	Unknown					X				27					339			3
66	Betty Grable	1943	Frank Powolny	24	24	78-79		X										123		3
67	Into the Jaws of Death	1944	Robert F. Sargent			X		X							66-67					3
68	Vengeance in Dessau, Identification of Gestapo Informer	1945	Henri Cartier-Bresson	121	121									166-173			359			3
69	Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel	1946	Margaret Bourke-White			80-81		X				34								3
70	Albert Einstein	1951	Arthur Sasse							X					143-144		393			3
71	Photo 51	1952	Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin	166	166	60			X						19					3
72	Monroe	1954	Matty Zimmerman							X		36						126		3
73	Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles	1960	Julius Shulman			122-123		X									447			3
74	I Have a Dream	1963	Agence France-Presse			90-91									40-41		469			3
75	Zapruder film	1963	Abraham Zapruder	146-147	146-147	12		X							94					3
76	New View of Life, Fetus 18 Weeks	1965	Lennart Nilsson	170-171	170-171			X							20-21					3
77	Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze	1966	Hou Bo	105	105		X	X												3
78	Flower Power	1967	Bernie Boston	140	140	15									176-177		497			3
79	Assassination of Robert Kennedy	1968	Bill Eppridge			18-19					X						510			3
80	Apollo 11 Bootprint	1969	Buzz Aldrin			X	X	X												3
81	Munich Massacre	1972	Kurt Strumpf	78-79	78-79	21		X									549			3
82	Soweto Uprising	1976	Sam Nzima	60	60			X									577			3
83	Untitled Film Stills	1977–1980	Cindy Sherman					X	X								591			3
84	Miracle on Ice	1980	Heinz Kluetmeier	59	59						X				162					3
85	Oklahoma City Bombing	1995	Charles Porter IV	86-87	86-87					X	X									3
86	First Cell-Phone Picture	1997	Philippe Kahn		19			X							17					3
87	Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid	2000	Alan Diaz							X	X				52-53					3
88	The Hooded Man	2004	Ivan Frederick			48		X		X										3
89	First selfie	1839	Robert Cornelius												11		23			2
90	Portrait of Louis Daguerre	1844	Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot										6-7					6		2
91	Colossus of Ramses II	1850	Maxime du Camp									4					38			2
92	Two Ways of Life	1857	Oscar Gustave Rejlander				X										56			2
93	Fading Away	1858	Henry Peach Robinson				X										64			2
94	Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph	1860	James Wallace Black	154-155	154-155												70			2
95	Self-portrait	1860?	Nadar														89?		48-49	2
96	First color photo	1861	James Clerk Maxwell												14		71			2
97	Ascent of Mont Blanc	1862	Auguste Rosalie Bisson											48-53			71			2
98	The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg	1863	Alexander Gardner	102-103	102-103												77			2
99	The Scourged Back	1863	McPherson & Oliver			72											78			2
100	Released Federal Prisoner, RIchmond	1864	Unknown														82	22		2