100 Photos that Changed the World
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Life: 100 Photographs that Changed The World (ISBN 1-931933-84-7) is a book of photographs accumulated by the editors of Life
in 2003.
: Can photographs create the same historical effect as literature
? Based on the responses, the editors compiled 100 photographs that they felt portrayed technological photographic achievements, documented historic events and accomplishments, or have achieved iconic cultural and symbolic status. The book was edited by Robert Sullivan, and published by Time Inc.
Home Entertainment.
The three subsections are:
as representative of the entire bombing of Shanghai
. Other photographs are excerpts from larger historic collections, such as Roger Fenton
's and Alexander Gardner
's respective groundbreaking documentations of the Crimean War
and American Civil War
. Margin notes document the circumstantial background of many photographs, as well as instances where the images have been accused of being staged.
Life (magazine)
Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
in 2003.
History
The project began with an online question posted on Lifes website in 2003 and The Digital JournalistThe Digital Journalist
The Digital Journalist is a monthly online magazine about photojournalism which was launched in 1997 by Dirck Halstead, its editor and publisher. The site provides an online venue for visual storytellers covering a wide range of topics and showcases the work, in photography, videos, and words, of...
: Can photographs create the same historical effect as literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
? Based on the responses, the editors compiled 100 photographs that they felt portrayed technological photographic achievements, documented historic events and accomplishments, or have achieved iconic cultural and symbolic status. The book was edited by Robert Sullivan, and published by Time Inc.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. is a subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner, the company formed by the 1990 merger of the original Time Inc. and Warner Communications. It publishes 130 magazines, most notably its namesake, Time...
Home Entertainment.
Sections
The work is divided into four major chapters and three accompanying subsections. The major quarters are:- The ArtsARtsaRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
(concentrating on photography’s evolution throughout the 19th century and its later application to cultural exploitation); - SocietySocietyA society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations...
(documenting images that captured moments that shifted public acquaintance with political, social, cultural and environmental issues); - WarWarWar is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...
(pivotal moments of conflict and associated violence); and - ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and NatureNatureNature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
(capturing technological triumphs, defeats and horrors).
The three subsections are:
- Photographic Art (early works of artists whose primary medium was photography);
- Trick Photography (infamous scams perpetrated through photographs); and
- Stop Action (photos that are in fact captures taken from filmFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
).
Photographs
Some of the included photos are identified with larger events, such as H.S. Wong's 1937 photograph of a lone child crying at a demolished train station on "Bloody Saturday"Bloody Saturday (photograph)
Bloody Saturday is the name of a black-and-white photograph that was published widely in September–October 1937 and in less than a month had been seen by more than 136 million viewers. Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai South Railway Station, the photograph...
as representative of the entire bombing of Shanghai
Battle of Shanghai
The Battle of Shanghai, known in Chinese as Battle of Songhu, was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army of the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War...
. Other photographs are excerpts from larger historic collections, such as Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers.-Early life:Roger Fenton was born in Crimble Hall, Heap, Bury, Lancashire, 28 March 1819. His grandfather was a wealthy cotton manufacturer and banker, his father a banker and Member of Parliament...
's and Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner (photographer)
Alexander Gardner was a Scottish photographer who moved to the United States in 1856 where he developed his profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, American President Abraham Lincoln, and the execution of the conspirators to Lincoln's...
's respective groundbreaking documentations of the Crimean War
Crimean War
The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...
and American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. Margin notes document the circumstantial background of many photographs, as well as instances where the images have been accused of being staged.
External links
- A selection from 100 Photographs That Changed the World at The Digital JournalistThe Digital JournalistThe Digital Journalist is a monthly online magazine about photojournalism which was launched in 1997 by Dirck Halstead, its editor and publisher. The site provides an online venue for visual storytellers covering a wide range of topics and showcases the work, in photography, videos, and words, of...