Lista de fotografias consideradas as mais importantes

Esta é uma lista de fotografias consideradas as mais importantes nas pesquisas em que fontes autorizadas revisam o histórico do meio não limitado por período de tempo, gênero, tópico ou outros critérios específicos. Essas imagens podem ser chamadas de mais importantes, mais icônicas ou mais influentes - mas todas são consideradas imagens -chave na história da fotografia.

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Antes de 1850

Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, 1827.

A mais antiga fotografia de câmera sobrevivente.

William Henry Fox Talbot, Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey, August 1835.

A primeira fotografia fotográfica sobrevivente e a primeira fotografia sobrevivente em papel.

Louis Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, 1838.Hippolyte Bayard, Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man (Le Noyé), 1840.William Henry Fox Talbot, The Haystack, 1844.

1850s

Nadar, The Mime Charles Debureau as Pierrot, 1854.Roger Fenton, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855.John Mayall, Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter, 1855.Gustave Le Gray, The Brig, 1856.Robert Howlett, Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern, 1857.Shiro Ichiki, Portrait of Nariakira Shimazu, 1857.Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Two Ways of Life, 1857.Camille Silvy, La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene), 1857.Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858.

1860s

Mathew Brady, Abraham Lincoln, 1860.Carleton Watkins, Cathedral Rock, 1861.Alexander Gardner, The Dead of Antietam, 1862.McAllister & Brothers, Gordan (The Scourged Back), 1863Alexander Gardner, Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal, 1865.Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of Sir John Herschel, 1867.Andrew J. Russell, Beckoning West, 1869.

1870s

William Henry Jackson, Lower Yellowstone Falls, 1871.Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly, 1873.Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878.

1880s

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Water Rats, 1886.Jacob Riis, Bandit's Roost, 59½ Mulberry Street, 1888.

1890s

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen, 1895.Clarence H. White, Girl with a Mirror, 1898.Louis Boutan, First Underwater Photo, 1899.

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1900s

Frederick Evans, A Sea of Steps (Wells Cathedral), 1903.John T. Daniels, First Flight, 1903.Edward S. Curtis, The Vanishing Race, 1904.Edward Steichen, The Pond—Moonlight, 1904.Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907.Lewis Hine, Child Laborer in Newberry, South Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908.Lumiere Brothers, Cactus Hot Air Balloon, 1909.

1910s

Lewis Hine, Breaker Boys, 1911.Brown Brothers, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911.E.J. Bellocq, Prostitute, New Orleans, 1912.Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France, 1912.Paul Strand, Abstraction, Porch Shadows, 1916.Paul Strand, Blind Woman, New York, 1916.

1920s

Edward Weston, Armco Steel, 1922.Man Ray, Le Violon d'Ingres, 1924.Rudolf Koppitz, Movement Study, 1926.August Sander, Bricklayer, 1928.August Sander, Pastry Cook, Cologne, 1928.Tina Modotti, Woman of Tehuantapec, 1929.

1930s

Edward Weston, Pepper No. 30, 1930.Man Ray, Glass Tears, 1930.Alphonse Bertillion, Al Capone Mug Shot, 1930.Erich Salomon, The Hague, 1930.Charles Clyde Ebbets, Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932.Henri Cartier-Bresson, Place de l’Europe (Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare), 1932.Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brussels, 1932.James VanDerZee, Couple in Raccoon Coats, 1932.Wanda Wulz, I+Cat, 1932.Alexander Rodchenko, Girl with a Leica, 1934.Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler at a Nazi Party Rally, 1934.Ian Wetherell, Loch Ness Monster, 1934.Madame Yevonde, Lady Milbanke as ‘Queen of the Amazons’, 1935.Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936.Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam, 1936.Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam Liner, 1936.Robert Capa, The Falling Soldier (Death in Spain), 1936.

Morte do soldado republicano Federico Borrell García na Guerra Civil Espanhola.

Herbert List, Goldfish Bowl, 1937.Margaret Bourke-White, The Louisville Flood, 1937.Sam Shere, The Hindenburg Disaster, 6 May 1937.H. S. Wong, Bloody Saturday, 28 August 1937.Henri Cartier‐Bresson, Sunday on the Banks of the Marne, also known as Juvisy, France, 1938.Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, 1939.Margaret Bourke-White, Aerial View of Manhattan, 1939.Bill Brandt, The Lambeth Walk, c. 1939.Weegee, Mulberry Street, 1939.

1940s

Edward Weston, Tide Pool, 1940.Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, 1942.Yousuf Karsh, The Roaring Lion, Winston Churchill, 1941.Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1 November 1941.Dmitri Baltermants, Grief, 1942.Gordon Parks, Ella Watson (American Gothic), 1942.Frank Powolny, Betty Grable, 1943.George Strock, Three American Soldiers Ambushed on Buna Beach, 1943.Unknown, Jewish Boy Surrenders in Warsaw, 1943.Weegee, The Critic, 1943.Robert Capa, D-Day, 6 June 1944.Lieutenant Charles Levy, Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, 1945.Bernard Hoffman, Atomic Destruction, 1945.Carl Mydans, Return to the Philippines, 1945.Unknown, Inside Buchenwild, 1945.Joe Rosenthal, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, 23 February 1945.Yevgeny Khaldei, Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, 2 May 1945.Alfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day in Times Square, 14 August 1945.

"Na Times Square de Nova York, uma garota vestida de branco aperta sua bolsa e saia como um marinheiro desinibido planta seus lábios diretamente na dela".

Margaret Bourke-White, Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel, 1946.Mahatma Gandhi reading beside his spinning wheel.Amit Shabi, Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947.Andreas Feininger, Route 66, 1947.Eric Hosking, Barn Owl with Vole, 1948.Nat Fein, The Babe Bows Out, 1948.Philippe Halsman, Dalí Atomicus, 1948.W. Eugene Smith, Country Doctor, 1948.Leonard McCombe, Career Girl, 1948.Willy Ronis, Provençal Nude, 1949.Ralph Morse, Nuns Watching Television, 1949.Leonard McCombe, Clarence Hailey Long, 1949.

1950s

Robert Doisneau, The Kiss at the Hôtel de Ville (Les Amants de l'Hôtel de Ville), 1950.Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling, X-ray diffraction, 1951.

Imagem de difração de raios-X, fornecendo a chave para a estrutura do DNA.

Arthur Sasse, Albert Einstein, 1951.J.R. Eyerman, Trouble in Lakewood, 1952.Dmitri Baltermants, The Announcement of Stalin's Death, 1953.Hy Peskin, Camelot, 1953.Alfred Gregory, Atop Mount Everest, 1953.Harry Benson, Pillow Fight, 1964.Matty Zimmerman, Monroe, 1954.David Jackson, Emmett Till, 1955.Richard Avedon, Dovima with Elephants, 1955.Robert Frank, Trolley – New Orleans, 1955.O. Winston Link, Hot Shot Eastbound at Iaeger Drive‐In, 1956.Charles Trainer, The New King, 1956.Harold E. Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet, 1957.Russell Kirsch, First Digital Photo, 1957.Will Counts, Elizabeth Eckford, 1957.

Primeiros estudantes negros a participar de aulas na Little Rock Central High School.

Ansel Adams, Aspens, 1958.

1960s

Alberto Korda, Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara), 1960.Julius Shulman, Case Study House no. 22, Los Angeles, 1960.Peter Leibing, Leap into Freedom, 1961.

Hans Conrad Schumann, um soldado da Alemanha Oriental que fugiu sobre arame farpado em Berlim.

Abraham Zapruder, JFK Assassination, 1963.Charles Moore, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.Malick Sidibè, Nuit de Noël (Happy Club), 1963.Robert H. Jackson, Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963.Malcolm Browne, The Burning Monk (Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation), 11 June 1963.NPS, "I Have a Dream", 1963.Hugo Van Lawick, Jane Goodall Greets Baby Chimp, 1965.Lennart Nilsson, New View of Life, Fetus 18-Weeks, 1965.Neil Leifer, Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston, 1965.Hou Bo, Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze, 1966.Larry Burrows, Reaching Out, 1966.Mary Quant, Twiggy, 1966.Bernie Boston, Flower Power, 1967.D.A. Pennebaker, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967.Bill Eppridge, Assassination of Robert Kennedy, 1968.John Dominis, Black Power Salute, Mexico City Olympics, 1968.Josef Koudelka, Invasion of Prague, 1968.Joseph Louw, Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968.Ronald L. Haeberle, Massacre of Villagers at My Lai, 1968.William Anders, Earthrise, 1968.Eddie Adams, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon, 1 February 1968.Don McCullin, Albino Boy, Biafra, 1969.Bill Eppridge, Woodstock, 1969.Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, 1969. Unknown, Altamont, 1969.

1970s

John Paul Filo, Kent State Shootings, 1970.Ollie Atkins, Elvis Meets Nixon, 1970Ron Galella, Windblown Jackie, 1971.Ollie Atkins, Nixon in China, 1972.Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut, Napalm attack, 1972.Kurt Strumpf, Munich Massacre, 1972.Harold E. Edgerton, Bullet Passing through a Candle Flame, 1973.Luis Orlando Lagos, Allende's Last Stand, 1973.Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water‐Towers, 1974.Rolls Press, Nixon Resignation, 1974.Mervyn Bishop, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil into the Hand of Traditional Gurindji Landowner Vincent Lingiari, 1975.Stanley Forman, Fire Escape Collapse, 1975.Sam Nzima, Soweto Uprising (Hector Pieterson), 1976.Viking 1, The Red Planet, 1976.Eddie Adams, Boat of No Smiles, 1977.Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Stills, 1977–80.Jahangir Razmi, Firing Squad in Iran, 1979.Robert Mapplethorpe, Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter, 1979.Susan Meiselas, Molotov Man, 1979.

1980s

Annie Leibowitz, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1980.Heinz Kluetmeier, Miracle on Ice, 1980.Helmut Newton, Self‐Portrait with Wife and Model, 1981.Patrick Lichfield, Diana with Bridesmaids in Buckingham Palace, 1981.Donna Ferrato, Behind Closed Doors, 1982.Nancy Burson, Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women), 1982.Co Rentmeester, Michael Jordan, 1984.NASA, Hole in the Ozone, 1985.Alon Reininger, Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California, 1986.Andres Serrano, Immersions (Piss Christ), 1987.James L. Stanfield, The First Heart Transplant in Poland, 1987.National Enquirer, Monkey Business, 1987.Walter Looss Jr., Air Jordan, 1988.Jeff Widener, Tank Man, 1989. Man confronting column of tanks.Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy), 1989.Robert Maass, The Wall Falls, 1989.

1990s

Therese Frare, The Face of AIDS, 1990.Annie Leibovitz, Demi Moore, 1991.David Turnley, Operation Desert Storm, 1991.Steve McCurry, Camels in the Oil Fields, 1991.James Nachtwey, Famine in Somalia, 1992.Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk, 1992.Ron Haviv, Bosnia, 1992.Kevin Carter, Vulture Stalking a Child – Sudan Famine, 1994.Charles Porter, Oklahoma City Bombing, 1995.Hubble Space Telescope / NASA, Pillars of Creation, 1995.Dirck Halstead, Bill Clinton hugs Monica Lewinsky, 1996.Charles O'Rear, "Bliss (image)", 1996.Philippe Kahn, First Cell-Phone Picture, 1997.Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon, 1999.Carol Guzy, Kosovo Refugees, 1999.Robert Beck, World Cup Winners, 1999.

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2000s

Alan Diaz, Elian Gonzalez Federal Raid, 2000.Michael Nichols, Surfing Hippos, 2000.Doug Mills, President George W. Bush Learns of the September 11th Attacks, 2001.Patrick Witty, New Yorkers watch the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, 2001.Richard Drew, The Falling Man, 2001.Shannon Stapleton, Father Judge, 2001.Thomas Franklin, Raising of the American Flag at Ground Zero, 2001.Marcus Bleasdale, Sakura Lisi, 2004.Sgt. Ivan Frederick, The Hooded Man, 2004.Tami Silicio, Coffin Ban, 2004.Chris Hondros, Iraqi Girl, 2005.Eric Gay, Hurricane Katrina Evacuation, 2005.Robert Galbraith, Hurricane Katrina, 2005.David Phillip, Hurricane Katrina, 2005.Todd Heisler, Jim Comes Home, 2005.Brent Stirton, Gorilla in the Congo, 2007.John Moore, Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, 2007.Louie Favorite, Homecoming, 2007.Oded Bality, The Power of One, 2007.Heinz Kluetmeier, Photo Finish, 2008.Marcio Sanchez, Married at Last, 2008.Win McNamee, The New First Family, 2008.Barbara Davidson, Funeral of Edwin Cobbin, 2009.Marcos Tristao, Diego Frazão Torquato, 2009.Pete Souza, Oval Office Meeting, 2009.Unknown, The Death of Neda, 2009.

2010s

Kevin Systrom, First Instagram Photo, 2010.Justin Lane, 9/11 Memorial, 2011.Pete Souza, The Situation Room, 2011.Jessica Hill, Newtown Massacre, 2012.Lucas Jackson, Fashion Week, 2012.Rodrigo Abd, Aida, 2012.Shannon Hicks, Sandy Hook, 2012.AFP, China Social Suicide, 2013.David Guttenfelder, North Korea, 2013.John Tlumacki, Boston Marathon Bombing, 2013.Taslima Akhter, Couple Found in Rubble of Bangladesh Factory Collapse, 2013.Tyler Hicks, Nairobi Mall Attack, 2013.Bradley Cooper, Oscars Selfie, 2014.Bülent Kiliç, Turkey Mine Blast, 2014.UNRWA, Yarmouk Refugees, 2014.Nilufer Demir, Alan Kurdi, 2015Emin Menguarslan, Turkish Coast Guard Rescue, 2016.Sergio Pitamitz, Climate Change, 2018.

2020s

Tayfun Coskun, Capitol Under Attack, 2021.United States Air Force, Out of Afghanistan, 2021.

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Fontes

Essas pesquisas da história da fotografia determinam quais imagens estão incluídas na lista.

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