Photography is a form of journalism that needs no words when the subject and composition capture a raw moment with authentic emotion. Such powerful photos are embedded in our history books and in the memories of many. This selection of moments are images that many know, and with the sight of them, automatically tell a story much greater than the image itself. These photos tell the tales of a century that saw much violence, war, sexual revolution, political revolution and social shifts, capturing time behind a lens and freezing it forever. They really do say a thousand words.
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| Martin Luther King made his "I have a dream" speech to over 200,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. (photo by Leonard Freed) |
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| This photo, although it appears candid, was staged in 1932 for publicity during construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York City. (photo credited to Charles C. Ebbets) |
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Marilyn Monroe stepped on top of a New York subway vent in 1954 and made history with this risque pose.
(photo by Sam Shaw).
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| Gone but not forgotten. (photo by Shivam Patel) |
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| In 1945, American soldier George Mendoza heard news of the V-J Day victory in Times Square and kissed unsuspecting dental assistant, Greta Zimmer. (photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt) |
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| Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots Vietcong officer Nguyen Van Lem on a Siagon street in 1968. (photo by Eddie Adams) |
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| German SS officer Jürgen Stroop included this photo in his 1943 report about Warshaw Ghetto. The boy and his fate remain unknown. (photo credit unknown) |
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| Sharbat Gula was an Afghan teen in a refuge camp when she appeared on the cover of National Geographic. (photo by Steve McCurry) |
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