White Wolf
National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg was on a trip in Canada’s Ellesmere Island in 1985, given the mission of photographing a dog-sled expedition to the North…
Le Baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville
At the age of 16, Robert Doisneau became an amateur photographer. The only problem was that Doisneau was so shy that his beginning work was mostly…
The London Milkman
If you think the man in this picture is a milkman, you’re wrong. Sort of. The Germans had just lost the Battle of Britain, one of…
The Elephant’s Foot
At 1:23 in the morning on April 26, 1986, nuclear fuel rods at a very high temperature were lowered into cooling water. This caused a very…