Iconic images history

These iconic photos show a fraction of a second in our world's history. They portray relationships, situations, and the passing of time.

These are what everyday life of Parisian youth looked like in the 1950s.

While many animals rely on other senses — like smell in the case of dogs or hearing in that of bats — humans depend on sight. We build our lives around visual cues, and use them for finding food, mates, and shelter, as well as more complex behaviors such as parental care.

For over a century photography has captured, documented and shaped the course of history, with some leaving a lasting legacy.

Painting of a bust-length woman looking over her shoulder and wearing a headdress and a large pearl earring.

How Malcolm X used the power of photography. As one of the most media savvy Black leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X was one of the most photographed and documented figures of his time. Although he didn’t trust mainstream media, he knew how to use them in his favor as all of their headlines about him provided him a platform to spread his message. Through photography, he knew how to control his image and highlight his community from a different perspective. When photojournalists…

On honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, a selection of LIFE Magazine's most powerful photographs of the civil rights leader.

Dang, did he go there? Yep. According to a quote found by Big Think, Nikola Tesla basically describes the modern-day smartphone, a communication device so

“The image was a publicity effort by the Rockefeller Centre,” Corbis’s chief historian Ken Johnston told the Independent. “It seems pretty clear they were real workers, but the event was organised with a number of photographers.”