Items16The creator’s order
  1. 1Alexander Gardner (photographer)Alexander Gardner (photographer)Born 17 Oct 1821The Dead of Antietam, 1862 Alexander Gardner and his assistant James Gibson photographed the bodies still lying on the field after Antietam, and the pictures went on show at Mathew Brady's gallery in New York that October, where they drew crowds. The New York Times wrote that Brady had brought…0
  2. 2William Henry JacksonWilliam Henry JacksonBorn 4 Apr 1843The Yellowstone survey photographs, 1871 Few photographs have a clearer route to a law. William Henry Jackson travelled with Ferdinand Hayden's federal survey of the Yellowstone region in 1871, and Hayden then lobbied members of Congress with an album of Jackson's pictures. The act creating…0
  3. 3Jacob RiisJacob RiisBorn 3 May 1849How the Other Half Lives, 1890 Jacob Riis took a camera into the tenements of Lower Manhattan, and his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives was illustrated chiefly from his own photographs, Bandit's Roost in Mulberry Bend being the best known. The clearest documented effect came through Theodore…0
  4. 4Lewis HineLewis HineBorn 26 Sept 1874Child labour photographs Lewis Hine photographed working children in mills, mines, fields and factories, and his pictures were put to work as evidence rather than sentiment. They provided evidence to support legislation limiting child labour, and, influenced in part by them, Congress passed the…0
  5. 5Dorothea LangeDorothea LangeBorn 26 May 1895Migrant Mother, 1936 Dorothea Lange's portrait of a mother and her children at a pea pickers' camp in Nipomo, California, became the face of the Depression. Federal authorities sent food to the camp after the pictures ran, commonly reported at around 20,000 pounds. The family had already left by…0
  6. 6Joe RosenthalJoe RosenthalBorn 9 Oct 1911Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, 1945 Joe Rosenthal's picture shows the second flag raised on Mount Suribachi, a larger one brought up after Marines had planted a smaller flag earlier that day. It became the picture through which Americans saw the Pacific war, and its history shows how a famous image…0
  7. 7Emmett TillEmmett TillBorn 25 Jul 1941The open-casket photographs in Jet, 1955 This influence began with a decision, not a photographer. Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on an open casket for her 14-year-old son so that people could see what had been done to him, and Jet published David Jackson's photographs of his face in its 15 September…0
  8. 8Malcolm BrowneMalcolm BrowneBorn 17 Apr 1931The Burning Monk, 1963 On 11 June 1963 the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire in a Saigon street in protest at the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem, and the Associated Press correspondent Malcolm Browne photographed it. The picture put the Buddhist crisis on front pages…0
  9. 9Bill Hudson (photographer)Bill Hudson (photographer)Police dog attack in Birmingham, 1963 On 3 May 1963 the Associated Press photographer Bill Hudson caught a police officer holding a Black teenager by his sweater while a German shepherd lunged at him during the Birmingham campaign. The next morning it ran above the fold across three columns of The…0
  10. 10Eddie Adams (photographer)Eddie Adams (photographer)Born 12 Jun 1933Saigon Execution, 1968 During the Tet Offensive, Eddie Adams of the Associated Press photographed South Vietnam's national police chief, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, shooting a handcuffed Viet Cong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, in a Saigon street on 1 February 1968. It won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and helped…0