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Most Famous/iconic photographs in history

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HangingBasketCase · 15/11/2014 14:08

Does anyone else enjoy photogtaphy? I've been looking at some of the most iconic photographs of all time, and I have a few favourites. I'll share three of them with you now.

Firstly lunch a top a skyscraper. Taken in New York during the building of the Rockerfeller Centre. I can't get my head around how they were able to sit on a metal beam, so high up without anything to secure them! If you ever visit the Rockerfeller centre you can recreate this photo, it's become that famous!

Secondly St Paul's Cathedral taken early in the morning following a devastating air raid on the city of London. All of the buildings around the cathedral were destroyed, yet almost miraculously St Pauls survived. How inspirational this image must have been to people at the time, seeing the dome of the Cathedral rising from the smoke like a Phoenix from the flames.

Finally "The Kiss", taken on VJ Day 1945, in Time Square. I believe the identities of the couple are unknown, but they weren't actually a couple. They were random strangers, he just grabbed hold of her and kissed her in happiness because the war was over. Wonder what we'd make of that now?

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Most Famous/iconic photographs in history
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PacificDogwood · 15/11/2014 15:06

Half Dome by Ansel Adams

Mapplethorpe lily - I like some of his other stuff to (NSFWP)

MrsBungle · 15/11/2014 15:06

I love these pictures, one picture tells so much.

PureMorning · 15/11/2014 15:05

Tiananmen square

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CitronVert · 15/11/2014 15:01

The moon landing one is pretty iconic

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TheHappyCamper · 15/11/2014 14:59

This is one of my favourites.

It's by a local photographer called Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (outing my location here!). Most people know other pictures of his like 'water rats' but I love this one because you can see Whitby Abbey and the boat in the background. I think they all look so natural.

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TractorTedMum · 15/11/2014 14:20

I have the skyscraper one hanging in our hallway. Those hats the men are wearing are the same as what my grandad wore when he worked building roads in the 50's, love it. I also love looking in the background of pictures like this and seeing hidden things, could look at it all day.