The Most Iconic…

icon, ikon [ˈaɪkɒn]n1. an image, picture, representation,

etc.2. a symbol resembling or analogous

to the thing it represents3. a person regarded as a sex symbol or as a symbol of a belief or cultural

movement

I·con·ic  -Adj.1. Of, relating to, or having the character of

an icon.2. Having a conventional formulaic style..

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Alfred Eisenstaedt - The Kiss (1945)

Pure joy as World War II ends.

Wright Brothers' First Flight-Dec 17th 1903

This 1932 photo by photographer Charles C. Ebbets shows fearless workmen eating lunch on the 69th floor! of the GE Building during the

construction of the Rockefeller Centre.

Margaret Bourke-White - Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel (1946)This portrait of a hero is now an icon for humility and nonviolence.

Partition of India-Aug 14th 1947

Murray Becker - Hindenburg (1937)Photos like this of the Hindenburg disaster shattered faith in Zeppelin

travel.

20th Century Fox - Betty Grable (1942)Grable’s million-dollar legs were the subject of the most-seen pinup sent

to ease the suffering of American troops during World War II.

Robert Capa - Omaha Beach (1944)Taken alongside the first infantry during the Normandy invasion. Later, the raw look of Capa’s photos were explicitly imitated by Spielberg in

Saving Private Ryan.

Marilyn Monroe - Seven Year Itch - 1955

Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have A Dream Speech-Aug 28th 1963

Christian Spurling - Loch Ness Monster (1934)London’s Daily Mail hired M.A. Wetherell to shoot the famed monster.

Finding nothing, he conspired with Spurling to concoct this famous image.

Dorothea Lange - Migrant Mother (1936)A famous portrait of the Great Depression.

Halle BerryDie Another Day (2002)

Ursula AndressDr. No (1962)

Raquel WelchOne Million Years B.C

1966

Albert Einstein-This iconic photograph was clicked by Arthur

Sasse in 1951

Sean Connery wearing the iconic tuxedo of James Bond –

introduced in the first Bond film,’Dr.No’

JFK Assassination-Nov 22nd 1963John F Kennedy Jr. Salute to his dead

father-Nov 25th 1963

Farrah Fawcett’s Iconic Poster-1976

Steve McCurry - Afghan Girl (1984)Sharbat Gula’s piercing gaze on the cover of National Geographic came to

symbolize the plight of refugees around the world. Her identity was unknown until she was found again in 2002.

Matuschka - Beauty Out of Damage (1993)Artist Matuschka learned that her mastectomy was unnecessary after

losing her breast, and became an activist. Some say her Glamour cover photo did more for breast cancer than anyone else in 25 years.

Duncan Cameron - Canadian Seal Hunt (1969)Photos liked this one sparked public outrage. Many stopped buying fur

and "seal-clubbing" became a metaphor for heartless evil.

Edward Steichen - The Pond, Moonlight (1904)Among the first to use a new colour process, auto chrome.

Ansel Adams - The Tetons, Snake River (1942), and others...Adams turned photography into an art, and inspired the preservation of

natural wonders in the process.

William Anders - Earthrise (1968)Perhaps the most famous photo ever taken: earth from behind the moon.

August 1991, Moore appeared nude on the cover

of Vanity Fair under the title More Demi

Moore. Annie Leibovitz shot the picture while Moore was seven months pregnant with her daughter Scout LaRue, intending to portray "anti-

Hollywood, anti-glitz" attitude.

The very pregnant singers Britney Spears

& Christina Aguilera decided to bare it all and pose nude in

photos for Harper’s Bazaar & the January 2008 issue of Marie

Claire. 

The path set by Demiwas soon followed byother stars…Demi’s is

consideredIconic as

it was the first ofits kind…

Edward S. Curtis - Red Hawk at an Oasis in the Badlands (1905)The immigrating Europeans’ contemptuous view of Native Americans

was met with the obvious dignity of this Oglala Sioux chief.

Lennart Nilsson - How Life Begins (1965)This capture of an aborted fetus that was reprinted widely by pro-life

activists.

Malcolm W. Browne - Burning Monk (1963)Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon to protest the South Vietnamese president’s oppression of

Buddhism.

Philippe Halsman - Dalí Atomicus (1948)Halsman’s famous photo of a really surreal world.

Joe Rosenthal – Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima-Feb 23rd 1945

Alberto Korda – Che Guevara 1960This iconic portrait of the Latin American revolutionary spread like wildfire

as the quintessential poster.

Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photo turned public opinion against the Vietnam war.

Adams' photograph of Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing

Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968

First Moon Landing-July 20th 1969

Huynh Cong Ut - Napalm Strike (1972)“Nick” Ut captured these South Vietnamese children being burned by Napalm. After taking the photo, Nick doused the naked Kim Phuc with

water and took her to the hospital.

Stuart Franklin / Jeff Widener??- Tiananmen Square (1989)As millions demanded reform, a single young man refused to move in the

face of the People’s Republic’s tanks.

Mike Wells – Uganda 1980This example of emotive imagery is of a child in Uganda holding hands with a

missionary. The stark contrast between the two people serves as a reminder of the gulf in wealth

between developed and developing countries.

Kevin Carter – Vulture Stalking a Child - March 1993

The images in this show are just a few of hundreds of other photos / images which can be

termed as ‘ICONIC’ ….and / or INFLUENTIAL….

Burning Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Name of Freedom-Aug 6th & 9th respectively ,1945

General MacArthur and the Emperor at Allied

GHQ in Tokyo. September 17, 1945.

FDR & Truman

The iconic haircut

Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Sienna Miller… the most iconic women in the world wear Susan Rosen jewels. Once a best-kept secret amongst New York fashion editors and Hollywood stylists, Susan Rosen rocketed to popular notoriety in 2006 as the designer of history’s most expensive piece of clothing ever made, the $30 million diamond bikini, as seen

on Molly Sims in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue.

In 1979, Régis Bossu, a freelance photographer for European Stars and Stripes, Stern, Spiegel, and Sygma, went East Berlin to photograph the festivities of the 30th anniversary of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik — East Germany. The

celebrations’ guest of honor was the aging Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.When Brezhnev finished his speech, East German President Erich Honecker

opened his arms to congratulate him with a big kiss, a normal ritual for socialist comrades.  (But both Honecker and Brezhnev were a little more enthusiastic than

your average Communist dictator in kissing. A contemporary joke runs such: Brezhnev was commenting about a foreign leader, “As a politician, rubbish… but

what a good kisser!”)

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A dozen photographers were there to capture this moment, but it was Régis who captured two men at the decisive moment. Many magazines used it immediately,

and Paris Match devoted double pages to it, with a caption “The Kiss”.In the euphoric weeks following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, artists from all over the world gathered flocked to Ostbahnhof to paint on the

eastern side of the Berlin Wall. In a lampoon of Socialist Realism, a Soviet artist, Dmitri Vrubel, painted the kiss there with a caption: “God help me to survive this

deadly love affair.” (Vrubel saw the photo in an old Paris Match).

It became one of the most famous pictures on Berlin’s East Side Gallery as that long stretch of wall is now called, and when it was erased by the government in

2009, the public uproar led to Vrubel being invited to repaint it.Bossu’s and Vrubel’s image was repeatedly copied, re-photographed and re-

published, and printed on T-shirts, towels and other memorabilia. A Berlin hotel took it as its logo. According to Bossu, “The Kiss,” has been re-published more

than 500 times. See Bossu and Vrubel posing with their respective images in front of the erased section of the Wall below.

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