Head to Head
Some of you may have noticed this picture on as my desktop image. It’s of John F. Kennedy (left) and his brother Robert (right… obviously). I…
Some of you may have noticed this picture on as my desktop image. It’s of John F. Kennedy (left) and his brother Robert (right… obviously). I…
In 1945, photographer Irving Haberman captured this image of famous actress and singer Marlene Dietrich kissing a GI after he arrived home in New York. The…
It’s amazing how much controversy can be caused by sheer luck. In this photo of Muhammad Ali after a first-round knockout of Sonny Liston at St.…
(Look! A picture taken AFTER 1950!) Though their identities are unknown, these two men are part of an organization called the Guardian Angels. I know –…
On May 12, 1947, Life Magazine published a photo later named The Most Beautiful Suicide with the caption: “At the bottom of the Empire State Building the body…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After enlisting in the East German state police, 18-year-old Conrad Schumann was assigned to the Bereitschaftspolizei or BePo (“riot police”), a force dedicated to suppressing rebellion.…