Top 10 World Most Famous Photos Ever

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Top 10 World Most Famous Photos Ever

01. Afghan Girl [1984]

Photographer: Steve McCurry

And of course the afghan girl, picture shot by National Geographic photographer Steve

McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee

camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the

opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time. She

made it on the cover of National Geographic next year, and her identity was discovered in

1992.


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02. Omayra Snchez [1985]

Photographer: Frank Fournier

Omayra Snchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano

which erupted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old had been trapped in water and

concrete for 3 days. The picture was taken shortly before she died and it caused

controversy due to the photographers work and the Colombian governments inaction in

the midst of the tragedy, when it was published worldwide after the young girls death.


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03. Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]

Photograph from: Yousuf Karsh

This photograph was taken by Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer, when Winston

Churchill came to Ottawa. The portrait of Churchill brought Karsh international fame. It is

claimed to be the most reproduced photographic portrait in history. It also appeared on the

cover of Life magazine.


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04. The plight of Kosovo refugees [1999]

Photographer: Carol Guzy

The photo is part of The Washington Posts Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing

how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the

hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The

members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.

05. Stricken child crawling towards a food camp [1994]

Photographer: Kevin Carter

The photo is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.

The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a

kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the

whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin

Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.


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06. Segregated Water Fountains [1950]

Photographer: Elliott Erwitt, Magnum Photos

Picture of segregated water fountains in North Carolina taken by Elliott Erwitt.

07. Burning Monk The Self-Immolation [1963]

Photographer: Malcolm Browne

June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death

at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of

the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time.Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to


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grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give

Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion.

While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.

08. Bliss [~2000]

Photographer: Charles ORear

Bliss is the name of a photograph of a landscape in Napa County, California, east of

Sonoma Valley. It contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus

clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the Luna theme in

Windows XP.

The photograph was taken by the professional photographer Charles ORear, a resident of

St. Helena in Napa County, for digital-design company HighTurn. ORear has also taken

photographs of Napa Valley for the May 1979 National Geographic Magazine article Napa,

Valley of the Vine.

ORears photograph inspired Windows XPs US$ 200 million advertising campaign Yes you

can.


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09. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]

Photographer: International Ladies Garmet workers Union

Picture of bodies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Company rules were to keep doors

closed to the factory so workers (mostly immigrant women) couldnt leave or steal. When

a fire ignited, disaster struck. 146 people died that day.

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Finally, a question for you .. Who is this famous guy?


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