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INFLUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHS...
from Flashback Magazine
by Mhari Dougal
Just a snapshot of the millions of photos that influenced and shaped todays society
PhotographyBy:DorotheaLange
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PhotographedBy:SamShere
The Hindenburg Disaster - German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock, resulting in 35 deaths - 1937
PhotographedBy:Unknown
The Warsaw Ghetto Boy - young boy holds his hands over his head while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction- 1943
PhotographedBy:RobCaron
Bombing of Hiroshima - Aerial view of the bombing of Hiroshima, taken aboard the B-29 - 1945
PhotographedBy:AlfredEisenstaedt Nurse and Sailor kiss in the streets in celebration of the victory over Japan - 1945
PhotographedBy:BettmannArchive Rosa Parks siting at the front of a bus in protest against segregation - 1955
PhotographedBy:GeorgeFreston Citizens of Aberfan attending the mass funeral for 81 of 190 children and adults who died when a landslide engulfed the junior school - 1966
PhotographedBy:WilliamAnders Photo of Earth rising over the lunar horizon - 1968
PhotographedBy:NickUT Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road in Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was dropped on the village of Trảng Bàng - 1973
PhotographedBy:Alamy Peace protesters encircling the perimeter fence of RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire - largest female-led protest since the women’s suffrage movement in the 1900s - 1982
PhotographedBy:JeffWidener
PhotographedBy:RaymondDepardon
PhotographedBy:KevinCarter