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1972 | The Tasadays – National Geographic
In the early 1970s, a wave of anthropologists, archaeologists and others who descended on Mindanao, in the southern Philippines. Rainforests there were places that for centuries were rarely entered by...
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1955 | The Sioux by John Vachon
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...
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1943 | Mussolini is toppled
At the beginning of 1943, the Fascist Italy was looking at bitter defeat. The African front had collapsed in the previous November, exposing Italy to an Allied invasion. Tunis, the last stronghold of...
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1967 | Vietnam Heroico by Roberto Salas
The portrayal of the Vietnam War was predominantly influenced by Western journalists and reporters. However, the reporting of the war in the Communist Bloc, particularly in countries like the Soviet...
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1954 | USSR by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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. In the years...
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1959 | The New China by Henri Cartier-Bresson
While Joachim Heldt and Rolf Gilhausen were documenting China in late 1958 for Stern, another great photographer was also in China. In 1958, LIFE asked Henri Cartier-Bresson to return to China, a...
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1989 | The Soviet Mafia by Hans-Jürgen Burkard
In 1989, photographer Hans-Jürgen Burkard started working for Stern magazine. For the magazine, he produced a series of distinctive photo essays in his signature style of dramatic colour lit with...
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1992 | Penal Colony at Perm by Jane Evelyn Atwood
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. She managed to get access...
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1989 | Tiananmen by Patrick Zachmann
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...
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1962 | The Way-Out Way of Life
In fall 1962, California surpassed New York in population to become the most populous state in the United States. Traditionally, New York had been considered the nation’s economic hub, but the shift...
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1953 | The Conquest of Everest – The Times
At 11:30 am on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest. “Snow conditions bad stop advanced base abandoned May twentynine stop awaiting...
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2005 | Hell and High Water – Vanity Fair
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...
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A brief update as I don’t post here anymore, and moved my blogging to a new page: Subscribe In the 1940s, Ladies Home Journal ran two great photo essay series. One was “How America Lives” which looked...
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Hi all, A brief mid-month update as I don’t post here anymore, and moved my blogging to a new page. Go here to subscribe: https://iconic-photos.com/subscribe/ Recent Posts I have been on a blogging...
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For the time being, I have decided to migrate the blog to https://iconic-photos.com/ I was not able to transfer subscriber list from here (some sort of error in plugin). If you are subscribed here, I...
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For the time being, I have decided to migrate the blog to https://iconic-photos.com/ Transferring domain from WordPress hosting has been a plain (partly because of the size of the blog, and partly...
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Toffs and Toughs, 1937
This photo is presumed to illustrate Britain’s class divide — but does it really tell the whole story? . ‘Toffs And Toughs’ the picture was called. The five boys who came to illustrate the class...
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Eichmann identified, 1960
. In 1960, justice finally caught up with one of the great criminals of the age. Adolf Eichman, the Bureaucrat of the Holocaust, was put on trial in Israel, after being abducted by the Israeli secret...
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Gunnar Bergstrom’s Kampuchea, 1978
. Even as the horrors committed by the Communist Pol Pot regime in Cambodia seeped out into the wider world, the country and its government enjoyed widespread support in Sweden, especially among the...
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Khe Sanh, 1968
. Khe Sanh, 1968. For war critics and news correspondents, it was a miniature microcosm for the War in Vietnam itself: 6,000 US Marines forced to defend an isolated untenable location that the top...
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