This document provides summaries of 20 famous historical photographs from the 20th century, including: - The first photograph taken in 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce that took 8 hours of exposure. - A 1906 photograph of the devastation caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fire. - A 1972 photograph of a naked 9-year-old girl fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam that became one of the most published images from the war. - An iconic 1989 photograph showing a lone man blocking tanks in Tiananmen Square during the student uprising in China.

1. Rare Picks.. Part II
By
Pallav Khare

2. "A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear..."The Kid 1921. First Silent
Movies... Stars Jackie Coogan as Charlie Chaplin adopted son and sidekick.
It was a huge success and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921

3. First Flight on December 17, 1903.... was the day humanity spread its wings and soured into
the skies. The flight lasted only 12 seconds in the air. However, it was a major breakthrough.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, are the pioneers of aviations,
and although this first flight occurred so late in history, the ulterior development was
exponential

4. Polish children imprisoned in Auschwitz look out from behind
the barbed wire fence. (July 1944)...Photograph from the Main
Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes...

5. A Vietnamese woman weeps over the body of her husband, one of the
Vietnamese Army casualties suffered in the war with the Viet Cong in
South Vietnam. 1965

6. Napalm bombs explode on Viet Cong structures south of
Saigon in the Republic of Vietnam. 1965

7. Christmas dinner in the home of Earl Pauley near
Smithland, Iowa. (Circa 1935)

8. A wonderful world....Children of rehabilitation clinic in
Arkansas. (Circa 1935)

9. Martin Luther King - I have a dream.....The “I have a dream” speech is probably King’s most
famous speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom. In this speech he speaks of his dream for blacks and whites to live
together in harmony as equals. This speech marked the defining moment for the American
Civil Rights movement.....

10. The First Photograph [France, 1826]......Taken by Nicéphore Niépce, this is
the first photograph ever taken which still exists...this photograph took 8
hours of exposure time......

11. Looking Down Sacramento Street [San Francisco, 1906]....This photo was taken on
April 18th, 1906. It is the most famous photograph of the devastation caused by the
great fire and earthquake. It was taken by Arnold Genthe on a borrowed camera.....

12. The Lynching of Young Blacks [Indiana, 1930]....This photograph was taken after
the lynching of two young black men accused of raping a white girl. They were
hanged by a mob of 10,000....A third man was saved by the girls uncle who said he
was innocent....

13. Breaker Boys [Pennsylvania, 1910]...This is a photograph of breaker boys - child
labour used to separate coal from slate. This image helped lead the nation to outlaw
child labour. The photo was taken by Lewis Hine.....

14. Migrant Mother [Oklahoma, 1936]....This photograph of Florence Owens Thompson (32 year
old mother of 7) is one of the great representations of the Great Depression. The photograph
was taken by Dorothea Lange after Florence had sold her tent to provide food for her
children.....The Great Depression 1930-1939. During this time the prices of stock fell 40%.
9,000 banks went out of business. 9 million savings accounts were wiped out. 86,00 businesses
failed. Wages decreased by 60% which left 15 million jobless people.

15. Hitler in Paris [Paris, 1940]...This photograph was taken of Adolf Hitler
visiting Paris with his architect Albert Speer, on June 23, 1940. Hitler’s
army had captured Paris and Hitler went to admire his new City.....

16. The Last Jew in Vinnitsa [Ukraine, 1941]....This was found in the personal
album of an Einsatzgruppen soldier. It was labelled on the back “The last
Jew of Vinnitsa”. All 28,000 of the Jews living there were killed at the
time....

17. V-J Day [New York, 1945]...This is one of the most famous photographs from the
Second World War. The soldier and the nurse are unknown...Apparently the nurse
slapped the soldier immediately after. The event was the celebration of the end of
the war and it was taken in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt.....

18. Soviet Flag raised above the Reichstag [Berlin, 1945]....Soviet Union soldiers
Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev, and Georgij Bulatov raising the flag on the roof of
Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May, 1945. The photograph was taken by
Yevgeny Khaldei....

19. Vatican II Begins [Vatican City, 1960]...This is a photograph of Pope John
XXIII signing the document that officially started the Second Vatican
Council....

20. The Body of Che Guevara [Bolivia, 1967]....After capturing and killing Guevara
(Marxist revolutionary), the Bolivian army showed this photograph to prove that he
was dead. His death dealt a death blow to the socialist revolutionary movement in
Latin America and the Third World....

21. Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [Vietnam, 1968]....Photographer Eddie Adams took this
photograph of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief executing this Viet
Cong captain. Adams later said that he regretted that the world did not see Loan as a hero for
his actions in Vietnam....

22. Footprint on the Moon [Lunar, 1969]...On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong
put his left foot on the rocky Moon. It was the first human footprint on the
Moon....This photograph was taken by Buzz Aldrin...

23. Phan Th Kim Phúc [Vietnam, 1972]....The girl in the centre of this photograph is 9
year olf Kim Phúc. She is running from a napalm attack which caused serious burns
on her back. The boy is her older brother. Both survived. This photo (by Huynh
Cong Ut) became one of the most published of the Vietnam war....

24. Tiananmen Square [China, 1989]...Probably the most famous image from the
student uprising in China in 1989, this photograph shows a single person blocking
the tanks that were emerging on the square. The man survived but shortly after the
square was filled with innocent blood....

25. Che Guevara portrait by Alberto Korda....This is "The most
famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th
century."

26. Marliyn....This iconic image of Marilyn Monroe comes from
the film The Seven Year Itch. It is probably the most famous
picture taken of this celebrated actress.

27. 9/11 by Richard Drew...American photograph captured this image during
the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. He managed to photograph
a man who, in panic, jumped from the upper floors of the building.

28. Churchill by Yousuf Karsh...The portrait of Great Britain’s wartime Prime
Minister, Winston Churchill, became famous all over the world...it is the most
reproduced picture in history, and it also appeared on the cover of Life Magazine.

29. Einstein by Arthur Sasse...The famous scientist, Albert Einstein, shows us
in this famous photograph, that he also had a good sense of humor. The
picture was taken on March 14, 1951...

30. Unknown Refugee by Steve McCurry...Steve McCurry took this photograph of a
young refugee girl from war-torn Afghanistan. It first appeared in National
Geographic Magazine in 1985 but was taken in 1983. Later she was indentified as a
Sharbat Gula, one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp

31. Soldier's Despair by David Turnley...In the photo, American
sergeant, just found his best friend in the body-bag beside him.
He was killed during the Gulf War.

32. Construction workers by charles Ebbets...“New York Construction Workers
Lunching on a Crossbeam” is a world famous photo, made during the
construction of the GE Building in the Rockefeller Center in 1932.

33. Soweto Riots by Sam Nzima...A photo that managed to draw the attention of the
world shows Hector Peterson, age 13, as he dies in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubo,
after he was shot by a police officer on June 16, 1976, during the Soweto riot in
South Africa.

34. Volcano Victim by Frank Fournier....Omayra Sánchez was 13 years old when the
Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted. She was trapped in the remains of her house for
three days in water up to her neck. Photor-reporter Frank Fournier got this picture
a few hours before her death.

35. Southern Sudan by Kevin Carter..........The image shows a vulture waiting
for a child to starve to death. This horrific sight affected the photographer
so deeply that he committed suicide after winning the Pulitzer Prize.

36. Adios….