Iconic Photos

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The Iconic Photo of the Berlin Wall

When TIME sent photographer Anthony Suau to cover the opening of the border between East and West Berlin, he knew it would be the story of a lifetime More »
The Iconic Photo of D-Day

Robert Capa's LIFE photos of the invasion of Normandy — and a lone soldier near the beach — are icons of WWII, and were almost destroyed More »
The Iconic Photo of FDR

Near his home, in his car, cigarette in hand, on the 4th of July. FDR was at ease and smiling in one of the most memorable photos taken of him More »
The Iconic Photo of Iwo Jima

When AP photographer Joe Rosenthal watched marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, he wasn't sure he got the shot. It turned out to be the most famous photograph from WWII More »
Tiananmen at 20: Photographing 'Tank Man'

Photographer Stuart Franklin recounts the 1989 uprising and the extraordinary events that led to the making of his iconic photograph More »
The Iconic Photo of the Haiti Earthquake

Reuters photographer Eduardo Munoz arrived in Port-au-Prince hours after the devastating earthquake on January 12. He soon met a girl whose face would symbolize both tragedy and hope for Haiti More »
The Iconic Photo of Burning Man

Barbara Traub first photographed the effigy of a man set ablaze every year at Burning Man in 1994. Her first shots became the iconic image on her book cover More »
Iconic Woodstock: A Photographer Looks Back

Forty years after the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, photographer Elliott Landy describes the event and the photos he shot there More »