100 Photographs That Changed the World

100 Photographs That Changed the World by Editors of Life. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781931933841.

he power of pictures is celebrated in this portfolio of the most forceful still images of all time. Robert Capas dispatches from the beach at Normandy and Joe Rosenthals photographic report of Iwo Jima stirred a nation, as did-in quite an opposite way-Eddie Adams and Larry Burrows searing imagery from Vietnam.LIFE thinks outside the box in this book: Did Marilyn Monroes pinup change the world?Did Harry Bensons photography of the Beatles deplaning in New York in 1964 alter our cultural focus?The pictures in this book are sometimes beautiful, often striking-and undeniably powerful.