Well-known iconic photographs

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Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn
 
Not exactly “iconic” and not even well-known, but it’s a nice picture from today’s papers (July 12):
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The picture was taken at Nato HQ in Brussels. Airplanes, maybe? I dunno.
 
That’s kind of funny with Trump looking one way and everyone else looking the other. I foresee many memes are in store for this picture. 😁
 
The Colosseum in Rome… photographed by the Rev. Calvert Richard Jones in 1846 .

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The village of Wilhelm Burger, near Yokohama, Japan, in 1869. This photograph was taken by Wilhelm Burger, who was attached to the Austro-Hungarian diplomatic mission which travelled to the Far East to develop commercial relations .

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The 19th century graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband deny this Dutch cemetery the power of separating them.

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“Dorothy Day on United Farm Workers picket line faces sheriff. When arthritis made standing difficult, Day confronted sheriffs from her portable three-legged golf stool. Lamont, California, August 1973.” (Bob Fitch photography archive: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, 1973.)

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The image of a napalm scarred little girl running from her burning village in Vietnam is one of the most well known photographs in the world.

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Kim Phuc, the “Napalm Girl”, is now a Canadian citizen. Her Wikipedia page includes this:

In a December 21, 2017, article for the Wall Street Journal,[36] Kim Phúc wrote that the trauma she suffered in the napalm strike still requires treatment, but that the psychological trauma was greater: “But even worse than the physical pain was the emotional and spiritual pain.” This led directly to her conversion to Christianity, which she credits with healing the psychological trauma of living over forty years being known to the world as “Napalm Girl”. “My faith in Jesus Christ is what has enabled me to forgive those who had wronged me,” she wrote, “no matter how severe those wrongs were.”

Phan Thi Kim Phuc - Wikipedia
 
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Yes, her story is simply amazing. ❤️

ETA: Her picture was the first one that I immediately thought of when you started this thread.
 
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Athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos created an international controversy by raising their fists in the air on the medal podium in a black power salute at the 1968 Olympics.

The image is now seen as a symbol of defiance and equality in the face of adversity.

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‘Wait for Me, Daddy’, is the touching photograph of young Canadian Warren Bernard running after his father who had just signed up to the war effort during WWII.

It might look like a haunting snapshot of war’s ability to tear families apart, but at the time Claude P Dettloff’s photo was used as a propaganda tool to sell war bonds.

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Taken by D. S. George in around 1899… from an album of views recording the progress of the construction of the Aswan Dam , one of the largest engineering schemes undertaken in Egypt in the late 19th century .

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