What is the most famous photograph ever taken?

By YPB Team

Some of these are war reporting, some are advertisements for the whole planet. Every pairing asks what famous actually means.

  1. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima — ranked #11
    Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
    Joe Rosenthal's 1945 photograph of six Marines raising a flag on Mount Suribachi.
    1000pts
  2. Guerrillero Heroico — ranked #22
    Guerrillero Heroico
    Alberto Korda's 1960 portrait of Che Guevara, endlessly reprinted on posters and shirts.
    770pts
  3. V-J Day in Times Square — ranked #33
    V-J Day in Times Square
    Alfred Eisenstaedt's 1945 photograph of a sailor kissing a woman as the Second World War ended.
    719pts
  4. The Blue Marble — ranked #44
    The Blue Marble
    The Apollo 17 crew's 1972 image of a fully lit Earth, one of the most reproduced photographs in history.
    582pts
  5. Pale Blue Dot — ranked #55
    Pale Blue Dot
    Voyager 1's 1990 photograph of Earth as a single pixel from beyond the orbit of Neptune.
    582pts
  6. Pillars of Creation — ranked #66
    Pillars of Creation
    The Hubble Space Telescope's 1995 image of star-forming columns of gas in the Eagle Nebula.
    513pts
  7. Migrant Mother — ranked #77
    Migrant Mother
    Dorothea Lange's 1936 portrait of Florence Owens Thompson became the face of the Great Depression.
    513pts
  8. The First Photograph of a Person — ranked #88
    The First Photograph of a Person
    Louis Daguerre's 1838 view of a Paris boulevard, which accidentally captured a man having his boots polished.
    434pts
  9. Muhammad Ali over Sonny Liston — ranked #99
    Muhammad Ali over Sonny Liston
    Neil Leifer's 1965 photograph of Ali standing over Liston in Lewiston, Maine.
    342pts
  10. The Steerage — ranked #1010
    The Steerage
    Alfred Stieglitz's 1907 photograph of passengers on a transatlantic liner, a founding image of modern photography.
    342pts
  11. Buzz Aldrin's Visor — ranked #1111
    Buzz Aldrin's Visor
    Neil Armstrong's photograph of Aldrin on the lunar surface, with Armstrong reflected in the gold visor.
    233pts
  12. Afghan Girl — ranked #1212
    Afghan Girl
    Steve McCurry's 1984 National Geographic cover portrait of Sharbat Gula in a Pakistani refugee camp.
    233pts
  13. Lunch atop a Skyscraper — ranked #1313
    Lunch atop a Skyscraper
    Eleven ironworkers eating on a girder above Manhattan during the construction of Rockefeller Center in 1932.
    233pts
  14. Earthrise — ranked #1414
    Earthrise
    William Anders photographed the Earth rising over the lunar horizon from Apollo 8 on 24 December 1968.
    103pts

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