Vanity Fair's 25 Best News Photographs (poll 997274)

Vanity Fair's 25 Best News Photographs

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A crowd witnesses the lynching of Tom Shipp and Abe Smith in Indiana, August 7, 1930. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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Jesse Owens in the final of the long jump, at the 1936 Olympics, in Berlin. Fox Photos/Getty Images

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This 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, a poverty-stricken migrant mother came to symbolize the Great Depression. Dorothea Lang/Corbis

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Anti-Franco militiaman Federico Borrell Garcia at the moment of his death during the Spanish Civil War, September 5, 1936. Robert Capa ©2001 by Cornell Capa/Magnum Photos

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The airship Hindenburg explodes as it comes in for a landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937. © Bettmann/Corbis

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Women accused of being Nazi collaborators are humiliated after the liberation of France, 1944. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

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U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on February 23, 1945. Joe Rosenthal/ AP Photo

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A mushroom cloud rises above the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the atom bomb is dropped, August 6, 1945. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images

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A U.S. Air Force C-54 “Skymaster” comes in for a landing at Templehoff Air Base during the Soviet blockade of Berlin, 1948.

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Victorious presidential candidate Harry Truman poses with an erroneous DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN headline, November 2, 1948. W. Eugene Smith/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

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Dorothy Counts braves taunts to become the first black student to attend Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 4, 1957. Douglas Martin/AP Photo

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Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, self-immolates on a Saigon street to protest South Vietnam’s persecution of Buddhists, June 11, 1963. Malcolm Browne/AP Photo

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Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech before the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963. Bettmann/Corbis

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President John F. Kennedy's family attends his funeral in Washington, D.C., November 25, 1963. Keystone/Getty Images

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South Vietnam’s police chief fires his pistol into the head of a suspected Viet Cong officer in Saigon, February 1, 1968. Eddie Adams/AP Photo

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Buzz Aldrin stands beside an American flag at Tranquility Base, on the surface of the moon, July 1969. Corbis

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Director Roman Polanski sits on his home’s bloodied porch after the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by Charles Manson’s followers, August 1, 1969. By Julian Wasser/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

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Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of fellow student Jeffrey Miller during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University, Ohio, May 4, 1970. John Filo/Getty Images

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South Vietnamese forces and terrified children, flee an accidental napalm drop on friendly territory, June 8, 1972. Nick Ut/AP Photo

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President Richard Nixon waves from the steps of Marine One after his resignation as president of the United States, August 9, 1974. Bettmann/Corbis

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Tanks roll into Tiananmen Square in Beijing in response to pro-democracy student protests, 1989. Stuart Franklin/Magnum Photos

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A vulture watches a starving child during famine in Sudan, March, 1993. Kevin Carter/Megan Patricia Carter Trust/Sygma/Corbis

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A person falls from the north tower of New York’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 Richard Drew/AP Photo

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An unidentified detainee stands on a box with a bag on his head and wires attatched to him at the Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003. AP Photo

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The Garden District of New Orleans falls victim to arson and looting after Hurrican Katrina, September 4, 2005. Thomas Dworzak/Magnum

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3 Comments

Ceephus - 15 years ago

Many are displays of Illuminati Power
Jacques Bernier - 16 years ago

seulement une photo n'est pas issue de la bêtise humaine : I have a dream, car il recherche à se libérer de cette bêtise.
only one picture is not the result of human stupidity: I have a dream, because it seeks to liberate themselves from this foolishness.
Nick - 16 years ago

"Favorite" is not really the right word. A trivialization. Most of these are icons of horror.

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