“I took a lot of water and poured it on her body. Ut wondered, Why doesn’t she have clothes? He then realized that she had been hit by napalm.

On June 8, 1972, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut was outside Trang Bang, about 25 miles northwest of Saigon, when the South Vietnamese air force mistakenly dropped a load of napalm on the village.Īs the Vietnamese photographer took pictures of the carnage, he saw a group of children and soldiers along with a screaming naked girl running up the highway toward him. This was not the case with 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc.

The faces of collateral damage and friendly fire are generally not seen. Scroll down below to check the photo gallery of the most famous pictures of our age. However, these famous photos are not the only TIME 100 – previously the magazine has released Top 100 novels, movies, influential people, and other noteworthy lists. “The best photography is a form of bearing witness, a way of bringing a single vision to the larger world.” The result they ended up with is not only a collection of superb rare and interesting historical photos but incredible human experiences as well. What all of the 100 famous photographs share is that they are turning points in our human experience.” And some cut because they directly changed the way we live. “Some images are on our list because they were the first of their kind, others because they shaped the way we think. “No formula makes for iconic photos,” the editors said. They teamed up with curators, historians, photo editors, and famous photographers around the world for this task. TIME magazine decided to create a list of the 100 most influential pictures ever taken. The 100 most influential historical pictures of all time

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