Top 10 most famous photos in the world. These photos are so common that a large percentage of the world have see it. So I will arrange it in a decending order. Number 1 is the most popular photo in the world. If you haven't see it.
10.. Afghan Girl [1984]
Photographer: Steve McCurry
Famous photo, 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.
Famous photo, 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.
9.Omayra Sánchez [1985]
Photographer: Frank Fournier
Famous photo, Omayra Sanchez
Omayra
Sánchez 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 photographer’s work
and the Colombian government’s inaction in the midst of the tragedy,
when it was published worldwide after the young girl’s death.
8.
Winston Churchill [1941]
Photograph from: Yousuf Karsh
Famous photo, Portrait of Winston Churchill
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.
7.
Kosovo refugees [1999]
Photographer: Carol Guzy
Famous photo, The Plight of Kosovo Refugees
The
photo is part of The Washington Post’s 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.
6.
Stricken child crawling towards a food camp [1994]
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.
5.
Segregated Water Fountains [1950]
Famous photo, Segregated Water Fountains
Picture of segregated water fountains in North Carolina taken by Elliott Erwitt.
4. Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation [1963]
Photographer: Malcolm Brown.
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 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.
3.
Bliss [~2000
Photographer: Charles O’Rear
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 O’Rear, a
resident of St. Helena in Napa County, for digital-design company
HighTurn. O’Rear has also taken photographs of Napa Valley for the May
1979 National Geographic Magazine article Napa, Valley of the Vine.
O’Rear’s photograph inspired Windows XP’s US$ 200 million advertising campaign Yes you can.
2.
. 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)
couldn’t leave or steal. When a fire ignited, disaster struck. 146
people died that day.
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